In Chapter 1, the boys have just been stranded on the island when the plane they were riding in crashed. While they were in the plane, Piggy heard the pilot say something about an atom bomb. He tells Ralph that "they're all dead."
Piggy tells Ralph this because Ralph is talking about how his dad is in the Navy and will come rescue them. Piggy asks him how his dad will know they've crashed. Ralph says the people at the airport would have told him. This is when Piggy says that (from what the pilot said) they are all dead.
It's not completely clear who "they" are -- Piggy believes Ralph's dad is alive, but not the people at the airport who could tell him what happened.
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