incident of this nature, the very senior management of the airline, the ceo, the chief engineer, the chief p.r. people, everybody in the -- the very, very most senior people in the airline will have gone to a special room, in some cases it's known as the epic room. in some cases the emergency room. this has been designed and constructed so that information flows in to the directorate and out again. it's a sterile room. information is very carefully controlled. they will have decided in that room or at least in that process what statement to make. i've got the statement here, piers. "we deeply regret -- interesting use of language -- to have lost all contacts with this flight" now, we know by the amount of fuel that was loaded the length of the flight that the amount of time that's transpired that it probably would have run out of fuel by now or at least it would not have had fuel to continue