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>> and in all your experience, if it was some kind of mechanical failure, i.e. an accident, what would cause such a catastrophic failure that no one was able to make any kind of distress signal and there would be no trace of it? >> well, i've been running that past my brain now ever since this thing happened. there's one possibility would be a total electrical failure, which it's very very hard to imagine. because they have so many generators coming from different places. they even have -- if all the engine generators fail, they still have what's called a rat. that's the generator that literal...

If it was some kind of mechanical failure, i.e. an accident, what would cause such a catastrophic failure that no one was able to make any kind of distress signal and there would be no trace of it? >> well, i've been running that past my brain now ever since this thing happened. there's one possibility would be a total electrical failure, which it's very very hard to imagine. because they have so many generators coming from different places. they even have -- if all the engine generators fail, they still have what's called a rat. that's the generator that literally falls out of the bottom of t...