miles o'brien, alex bobanin. alex, if i could start with you. question from a viewer. his name is robert. the question is, is it possible the airplane ditched in the ocean intact, leaving little debris? it's an interesting idea considering that happened in the hudson river not far from here in new york. a possibility? >> jim, i'm an oceanographer. i am not an engineer. but i don't see why not. if the plane made an attempt to land rather than crash, then that's certainly a possibility. >> miles, does that seem possible to you as well? structure on the ocean, obviously different on an ocean than in a river as sully sullenberger famously did in the river here? >> depends on who's flying if it's the autopilot or human being. if it's the autopilot and it's set for a specific speed and altitude, the autopilot will desperately try to maintain both as long as it can even as the engines run dry. what happens as it does that is the nose just starts pitching upward to about a 40-degree upward pitch. that's not a good situation for any aircraft, you can ima