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Have a great understanding of what the motivations are of all those folks and we dont. we simply dont. so we have these flights of fancy. weve got this conjecture just running out there and a thousand different theories. we need to bound this thing a little bit and get back to what we know and what we dont know and walk ourselves through what the possible outcomes might be. >> you know how cable news works, dont you, spider? weve got time to fill here. so yeah. before we bind our conjecture, let...

Investigation and this search can be carried out in a way that delivers results for all the interested parties. >> all right. we appreciate your insight. you are at least trying to frame this with the block of salt we should be taking as we try to figure out what happened to this flight. someone else who has some interesting theories is a gentleman by the name of jim tilmon, one of our cnn aviation contributors, a former pilot with american. jim, thanks for being with us. so does that change you...

Board were suspects until you took them out of the picture and everybody that touched that aircraft 24 hours before it originated on the flight should have been investigated and that should have been aggressive and wide open immediately. and my understanding, at least the way its been covered, is that did not happen. so moving forward, can you get over the hubris, can you get over the initial false start and can you now do that? certainly that needs to be done. >> since david set me straight on ...

Scenario that has unfolded. at each point when faced with those two options, weve continually gone down the less likely road. >> right. >> and weve done that three or four times now. >> but again, ten days into this, were wondering if were looking in the right ocean again. whether this thing took a left turn because its possible that it didnt. before you go, i assume that many of your sources are americans. what do they say about the malaysian investigation and their involvement therein? >> well...

Capable of doing that. we know the transponder was turned off and the acars system did not transmit. so in my mind its just clarifying -- the malaysian government is just clarifying that it could be that it was just sent here and it was sent here. they cant verify that it was truly turned off with a switch. it doesnt mean it wasnt off. >> you can jump in on this, jim tilmon or anybody, if these instruments, the transponder, the acars are so vital, why do they have an off switch? >> you want an o...

Doing that. if the acars had been turned off, it wouldnt have been capable of doing that. we know the transponder was turned off and the acars system did not transmit. so in my mind its just clarifying -- the malaysian government is just clarifying that it could be that it was just sent here and it was sent here. they cant verify that it was truly turned off with a switch. it doesnt mean it wasnt off. >> you can jump in on this, jim tilmon or anybody, if these instruments, the transponder, the a...

Handled like a crime scene up front, so you can immediately assume that all 239 souls on board were suspects until you took them out of the picture and everybody that touched that aircraft 24 hours before it originated on the flight should have been investigated and that should have been aggressive and wide open immediately. and my understanding, at least the way its been covered, is that did not happen. so moving forward, can you get over the hubris, can you get over the initial false start and...

Investigation, ten days on, as youve indicated, bill, we would have a great understanding of what the motivations are of all those folks and we dont. we simply dont. so we have these flights of fancy. weve got this conjecture just running out there and a thousand different theories. we need to bound this thing a little bit and get back to what we know and what we dont know and walk ourselves through what the possible outcomes might be. >> you know how cable news works, dont you, spider? weve got...