a strong of whack a hole in iraq but critics don t see any strategy. this is about the entire middle east. what is our strategy? do you send troops? what are they going to do? if you don t have a strategy, how do we push back the momentum of the terrorism? lay out a strategy and then we can see the outcome of what to do. alan pickerton is on the committee and a national air pilot in the guard. how are you? great. thanks for having me. we are waiting for john kerry, but what is the strategy? the whack a mole imlied you
i don t think it means anything that they came forward. i didn t either. the thai government says we didn t tell anybody because the malaysians didn t ask. if you know anything about the area, thailand and malaysia don t like each other because there is fighting in the south about borders and ethnic differences and things like that. all right. so that doesn t really matter. now, i base this is speculation. i gave it on letterman show. there is evidence looks like this pilot as the egyptian air pilot did just took the plane and crashed ited into the ocean i could be wrong absolutely. i m playing sherlock holmes deducing is that farfetched what i m saying? no i don t think it is at all. that is the simplest
to do something like this. so again, just a frustrating lack of information. we re going hear from an expert tonight who says sometimes an erratic flight plan means a heroic pilot, not a nefarious one. we ll get into that. but i know you spoke with a former retired malaysian air pilot who has actually flown this listen to a bit of your interview. reporter: so given all this cockpit procedure, is it possible for someone to rush into the cockpit still? it s possible but a difficult thing for me to play around with. let me put it it is not impossible for a determined set of people, not one. a determined set of people with proper plans and intimate knowledge of the procedures of the airplane. and this can be easily done by observation, flying in the aircraft a few times. did he have a prevailing theory? what does his gut tell him? reporter: well, he believes, bill, that there must have been human intervention, that someone
i don t think it means anything that they came forward. i didn t either. the thai government says we didn t tell anybody because the malaysians didn t ask. if you know anything about the area, thailand and malaysia don t like each other because there is fighting in the south about borders and ethnic differences and things like that. all right. so that doesn t really matter. now, i base this is speculation. i gave it on letterman show. there is evidence looks like this pilot as the egyptian air pilot did just took the plane and crashed ited into the ocean i could be wrong absolutely. i m playing sherlock holmes deducing is that farfetched what i m saying? no i don t think it is at all. that is the simplest
we ve ridden this roller coaster of them as suspects and then decent men who may have been heroes trying to save the plane from some catastrophe. what are you hearing tonight? reporter: well, the latest that we re hearing from u.s. authorities telling cnn that so far, everything that the authorities here have looked at and the police have been telling us they are looking at the background. they ve looked at the houses, even looked at the flight simulator inside the pilot s home. they ve come up with nothing according to u.s. authorities, that they simply haven t found any shred of evidence that they have specifically planned this, looking at the flight simulator, bill. they haven t found that there s any sort of practice that the pilot had that he was planning to do something like this. so again, just a frustrating lack of information. we re going hear from an expert tonight who says sometimes an erratic flight plan means a heroic pilot, not a nefarious one. we ll get into that.