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Bountiful catch for the six tourists on this fishing boat. >> here's another one coming up. >> but their luck begins to change from big fish to big trouble. >> everybody get one of those on, please. >> turns out the motor located under the deck has malfunctioned and broken apart. its metal pieces ripping a hole in the boat. >> we were just having fun with the camera back and forth. and then it evolved into much more. i just kept the camera running. >> one of the diesels sheered a shaft and we're taking on water. electrical problem, we lost the

That is also consistent with a potential electric issue. we know that we don't know. and as we try to put the pieces together with this limited information, it's a bit speculative. >> jim tillman, given the limited information that we have at this stage, what are the still available theories as to what happened to this plane? >> well, there are a lot of them. you can kind of take your pick. but of course, if we're talking electrical problem, we're talking about a massive electrical problem. there's so much redundancy on this airplane. one thing after another thing after another thing that are ...

Going off simultaneously is some type of electrical problem, the airplane is wonderfully redundant, fire different power sources, some of them with multiple generators, this should not happen, when it does, you get down to batteries and the batteries only last so long. we're at night, over the water, i believe these pilots turned back where they came from because they were wrestling a pretty difficult situation. and at some point their systems and backup systems ran out at night over water or land, and the airplane became -- >> when you say wrestling a difficult situation, you mean a hijacker ...

Have a satellite phone that operates independent of the airplane's electrical system. may or may not have worked in the cockpit. but more likely scenario is that somebody just didn't want to talk. and if they don't want to talk to you, you can be screaming and yelling, but if you shut everything off, there's no transponder codes for the secondary radar to pick up. nobody answering the phone, so to speak, or answering the radio. that creates a problem. more likely, electrical problem. if it's not terrorism, it's almost got to be massive and total electrical failure, which would bring the guys t...

They are huge, state of the art incinerators, that are designed to have just enormous capacity. each one of these two machines is supposed to be able to incinerate 40 tons of trash per day. 40 tons per day, and there's two of them side by side. you want to know what they're actually doing with their trash at the base where these two incinerates are? yeah, it's just an open air burn pit. they're just burning stuff in a hole. this is at a base due south of kabul, pretty close to the pakistani border. and these two 40 tons per day capacity brand-new incinerators, these megamachines were installed...