we don t have any answers. if there was some sort of a catastrophic mechanical failure in light and they turned the plane around to go back to kuala lumpur, that would be a theory, except suddenly you now have multiple other turns that would cause you to think maybe that no longer holds water. the whole thing really doesn t make any sense. and if this is the plane, if these are pieces of debris about as far south as you could go before you exhaust the fuel in the plane and your engines run out and you literally do a nosedive into the water, then it would appear this plane was on autopilot. so the same question we were asking last night, was the crew dead? was everybody in the back, all the passengers dead? we simply don t know. and the last point about this that is critical is that we ve only got about nine days left of battery life on those underwater pingers attached to the black boxes. if they don t find the debris, or even more importantly, if they don t find the wreckage, presumed
longer holds water. the whole thing really doesn t make any sense. and if this is the plane, if these are pieces of debris about as far south as you could go before you exhaust the fuel in the plane and your engines run out and you literally do a nosedive into the water, then it would appear this plane was on autopilot. so the same question we were asking last night, was the crew dead? was everybody in the back, all the passengers dead? we simply don t know. and the last point about this that is critical is that we ve only got about nine days left of battery life on those underwater pingers attached to the black boxes. if they don t find the debris, or even more importantly, if they don t find the wreckage, presumed wreckage location to listen for the black boxes, we may never find the wreckage and never find the black boxes. and without them, we may never know what happened. tom, the satellite photography is amazing to me, the fact that so many countries, including thailand have thi