let s talk about what we do know. there is a good chance the captain was at the controls. that s because pilots fly, one pilot tends to be at the controls, the pilot flying and the pilot not flying, in this case, probably the copilot, made the radio call. now, what would be interesting to find out ahead of time is if we could determine possibly through air traffic control tapes, if there were earlier radio calls made. i would be very, very interested to know if we heard the captain s voice at all once they took off. the captain would be on the radio on the ground. but if the captain was on the air when they were flying from kuala lumpur to beijing and suddenly we hear the last call from the copilot, there is a very good chance that would mean there was an inflight problem or emergency. in something like that, in a crisis, what a captain might say is you have the airplane. i m going to work the problem. and you have the radio. so i would really like to hear those air traffic control t