started. that is that there was some kind of catastrophe that took place that quickly and abruptly shut all systems down that would communicate with the ground and give us better information. >> captain, i want to question you on that point. that really is the nub of the issue at the minute. you have have this all right, good night on the hand over from the air space to vietnamese which is normal. then you have the loss of information. that puts the search area once again, doesn't it, back to the south china sea/gulf of thailand? >> yes, it does. it definitely does. we go back to square one. we don't have anything else to work with. we need to have some point of departure. that's been difficult. >> the question is, are we at square one at this point? >> again, day six. >> thank you so much for being with us. >> we want to look at other