We are not detectives and this is not the place and solving it will not help us land.

Our entire job, from this second until the wheels stop, is to fly the airplane, protect the evidence by not touching it, and get these people onto the ground alive.

Everything else belongs to someone else, later, down there.

He looked at her, and she watched him deliberately set the questions down, watched a good captain choose the narrow task over the large mystery, and she thought, not for the first time that night, that he was better than he believed himself to be.

Most people were, she had found, when something finally asked them to be.