actu sat operates. that s going to be an important guide for investigators moving forward as they figure out what exactly would cause a partial ping. john, i ve spoken to you several times in the whole process of this three week now news story. richard yesterday when we spoke was saying he still believes nefarious reasons behind why this plane went down. what do you think from everything that you ve seen and studied on this? honestly, piers, gun to my head i still don t know what happened. i don t have a clear theory guiding one way or another. what we ve tried to do is let the facts come out as they may without trying to preordain them against a given theory that we re working with. certainly what we have is another bread crumb in a series of bread crumbs that have led us from all the way from kuala lumpur to the gulf of thailand to the andeman sea and now here off the coast of australia thousands of miles from where this flight first began, where