take a look at the hard drives of the computers, take a look at the audio tapes, take a look at the video tapes, and presumably that would be very useful. but based on what we re hearing, they re not doing that. they re giving an assessment based on their conclusions. every crash has a unique dna. look at twa 800. everybody thought it was a bomb. a fuel tank had never exploded before from an internal source. it turned out it was the fuel quantity indicator system. so you need to caution that everything we mains on the table. we have not ruled out any kind of mechanical failure or anything. it s baffling. and you re reporting for the the new york times, are you getting a sense from your sources that they re making progress or they re almost back to square one? i think they re making so