manifest and the crew list and haven t found anyone that was previously known to be connected with terrorism. now, of course, it could be someone that wasn t known and second way is the cargo and you re seeing this second layer of concern about people around the plane, the people who load the baggage and the mail and whatever else may be on that plane. one other point here about the british timing. i think one of the thing that is we heard earlier today is, you know, why did they do it right now? and it may not simply be a tipping point of physical evidence and intelligence. but also, the simple fact of the calendar. this is apparently the time, you know, here in the u.s., people change over on the weekend if they re going to go to the beach. you know? the new people come in on saturday and the old people leave. apparently we were approaching that changeover point for sharm el sheikh. apparently this time of the week and that was another factor that led to british to make this decision
told that intelligence officials have scrubbed both the passenger manifest and the crew list and haven t found anyone that was previously known to be connected with terrorism. now, of course, it could be someone that wasn t known and second way is the cargo and you re seeing this second layer of concern about people around the plane, the people who load the baggage and the mail and whatever else may be on that plane. one other point here about the british timing. i think one of the thing that is we heard earlier today is, you know, why did they do it right now? and it may not simply be a tipping point of physical evidence and intelligence. but also, the simple fact of the calendar. this is apparently the time, you know, here in the u.s., people change over on the weekend if they re going to go to the beach. you know? the new people come in on saturday and the old people leave. apparently we were approaching
terrorist risk at the airport? well, it s certainly a dangerous part of the world. right. the thinking was that the airport s security was actually not bad. now, there are two ways a bomb can get on an airplane. one is that a passenger can carry it on and we have been told that intelligence officials have scrubbed both the passenger manifest and the crew list and haven t found anyone that was previously known to be connected with terrorism. now, of course, it could beso someone that wasn t known and second way is the cargo and you re seeing this second layer of concern about people around the plane, the people who load the baggage and the mail and whatever else may be on that plane. one other point here about the british timing. i think one of the thing that is we heard earlier today is, you know, why did they do it right now? and it may not simply be a tipping point of physical evidence and intelligence. but also, the simple fact of the calendar. this is apparently the time, you
what is it you are doing right now? tracing his last steps over the last few days? what s the key here? i d like to add that the request for the fbi, that s just a formality. the fbi s already been working with the authorities. it has a large office in paris, berlin and madrid already involved in doing backgrounds looking at the passenger list, crew list and pilots. scrubbing all the data bases in the u.s. and also using interpol. so this is not something that started today. the criminal investigation would have started the day the plane crashed because they can t wait until later onto determine, oh, yeah, it wasn t an accident, something bad happen. tom, in your experience, if a guy is going to do this, deliberately crash a plane, does he leave some kind of trail?
very, very quickly, within 90 minutes after takeoff. but it doesn t answer the myriad of questions right now. we see that once again they re going back over the passenger list, perhaps a crew list. there s talk of getting stop of the secret services of the world, like the mi-6, the cia involved, just to be more thorough. but that passenger manifest has been cleared multiple times now. people are not finding an obvious link to terrorism. they ve been through the records of the pilots, through that flight simulator that the captain had. no solid indications of foul play anywhere. that only makes this mystery deeper and the job ahead for the investigators that much tougher. rosemary? nothing concrete to go on at all. jim clancy reporting there from kuala lumpur. we are going to have a lot more on flight 370 later in the program, specifically on that