but then there are another set of theories that sound relatively implausible and i think that for a certain portion of people and it s a good thing that they do they like to express their skepticism about it, especially these more implausible sorts of theories. nicholas, you talk about how we love playing detective in situations like this, but many of us also can t help putting ourselves in the place of the passengers, thinking about what it might be like to board a plane where moments later something terrible happens or thinking about all the possibilities that could have taken place, whether that s dying instantly or the plane traveling for hours without actually knowing what s going on. why do we put ourselves in people s shoes in situations like this. well, it s a very natural human den densy to take the other person s perspective. people by and large have a lot of empathy for one other and i
know how to fly such a plane. air traffic controllers tried to speak to them, you can imagine the terror that was in the tower as they watched them under the control of inexperienced amateurs move down the runway and then lift off, flying towards the atlantic ocean. that was the last time that plane was ever seen and the last time padilla was ever heard from. this was after 9/11, and the authorities worried it could be used for terrorists. so the agencies all went searching for it and they found nothing. some guessed that the plane crashed in the atlantic, others wondered if it landed in the jungle and was stripped for parts, others said maybe padilla had other families, no one asked if the plane was sucked into a black hole. in 2005, the fbi closed the case having never found a trace. is that huge plane at the bottom of the atlantic ocean?