hail ingesting into the aircraft damaging aerodynamic surfaces like pito tubes measuring air speed being iced over. all of those things being compounded and add turbulence and huge updraft, it s a much more complicated picture than it sounded in the reports. the u.s. is involved in this investigation at several different levels right, tom? yes. u. u.s.s. warships are in the area. there are thousands of islands that belong to indonesia, 18,000 as a matter of fact and the coast line of borneo is 100 miles from where they re looking. it s not impossible i don t think, that that plane could have k4r50idedglided and crashed and the torrential rains could have suppressed any fire. they have recovered, peter,