ended up in this area? is that feasible? >> of course he could have disabled various systems. but to completely shut off the acars, he would have had to go back into the e and e, the electronics and engineering compartment that's eight feet behind the cockpit and down below the galley. and basically vacate the cockpit. the evidence is such that the acars system was being pinged by the satellite. so he would have had to disable that, too. it just seems so implausible to me. >> you must be talking to pilots all the time about this. i'm talking to random people in the street about this. everyone's obsessed with it for one reason, the mystery remains a mystery. when you talk to pilots, experienced, long service pilots, what is the general feeling you're now getting about what they think is the most likely scenario here? >> most of them kind of align with my malfunction theory and with the fuel issue we just brought up where it is plausible it could have gone a certain