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Have a great understanding of what the motivations are of all those folks and we don't. we simply don't. so we have these flights of fancy. we've 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 don't know and walk ourselves through what the possible outcomes might be. >> you know how cable news works, don't you, spider? we've got time to fill here. so yeah. before we bind our conjecture, let me ask greg about another one that blew up today online. this hobbyist aviator looked at othe...

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 your opinion? you, i think, were about to float sort of a more extreme theory about what happened to th...

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 it's 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 that acars thing, so let's talk about this thing and the fact that it might have flown that norther...

Scenario that has unfolded. at each point when faced with those two options, we've continually gone down the less likely road. >> right. >> and we've done that three or four times now. >> but again, ten days into this, we're wondering if we're looking in the right ocean again. whether this thing took a left turn because it's possible that it didn't. 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, there's -- i won't speak to my sources, of course, but there is a broad sense that there's f...

Capable of doing that. we know the transponder was turned off and the acars system did not transmit. so in my mind it's just clarifying -- the malaysian government is just clarifying that it could be that it was just sent here and it was sent here. they can't verify that it was truly turned off with a switch. it doesn't mean it wasn't 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 off switch on anything you can turn on in that cockpit. i don't want to fly a cockpit that has el...