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Malaysian authorities. that's the difference here. if you go back to tw800, if you go back to pan am -- back to lockerbie, back to -- >> air france. >> -- forgive me, air france. in all of these cases there was multiple rumors, was it shot down by a missile, what was happening with the aircraft? >> but richard, i agree. at least we knew where the bodies were. >> but that's because we had information. here, we don't have information. and what the malaysian authorities are saying is we don't know because the plane stopped transmitting at this particular point. >> let me ask you something, perhap...

Is that understandable given the real vacuum of information we have here? >> i think so, jon. and i think also, you know, when a spectacular event happens, i think it's human nature to try and find some sort of cause that explains something mysterious. and we've seen this in other airline crashes, tw800, a lot of eyewitnesses said they saw the plane being taken down by service-to-air missiles when it crashed in 1996. peter sal jer, who was jfk's press secretary took it a step further and said a u.s. navy warship had brought down twa800. even somebody with his kind of distinctive official histo...

Terrorism. that despite the fact that shortly after the head of interpol had suggested it didn't appear necessarily to be terror related. in fact, interpol's secretary general said, quote, the more information we get, the more we're inclined to conclude that it it was not a terrorist incident. not so sure with that wording it is necessarily ruled out by interpol. i want to speak now with somebody who knows a lot about all things aviation, mary schiavo for the u.s. department of transportation. with every piece of information interpol says we are being led away from terror. and it leads me to t...

Less in the number of accidents. and because it is a boeing, boeing will be there in full force. there's 1,000 reasons for them to participate, and it's called 777. >> a lot being made of the fact that the pilots didn't communicate. but again, i go back to that air france flight, the pilots didn't communicate then either even though they were wrestling with the aircraft that we know now it took two years to figure out. people shouldn't assume just because the pilots aren't communicating, that doesn't mean they couldn't have communicated, right? >> that's right. in many catastrophic crashes the...

Costello and others, they had a wing tip damage, boeing fixed it, taken care of. they had some frozen fuel lines of a rolls royce engine, taken care of. the aircraft itself is structurally sound. it's highly unlikely that a plane with that -- it's like an iphone in the sky. it's beeping and binging, there's texts, data, voice, satellite. it's highly unlikely that all those communication systems would simultaneously go out, without something catastrophic happening within seconds that would disable that aircraft. number two is that we don't know where, in fact, the plane and the debris field is....