investigators to blame deceased pilots. so there s no evidence. there is no evidence. we can t rule it out. certainly high on the list of possibilities that the flight crew had something to do with this. but there s some other explanations that fit here. for a law enforcement official in malaysia to claim the 27-year-old first officer was incapable of doing this, he has no expertise in this. he just came out of his initial operating experience. he was probably as well schooled and well trained as anybody on that 777 at that time. so, that was certainly a maneuver that could have been done by the first officer. put it that way. john, you ve been saying since the very beginning on this show you think this was intentional, that you believe this was deliberate, this was done by somebody who knew what they were doing. at this point, given that the information as to all the passengers names on this plane, the flight manifest, all has been made available to
this was terrorism this is a completely new paradigm. this is something they ve never seen before. there was no chatter leading up to it, no claim of responsibility now. they scrubbed the flight manifest. they looked at all these people as hard as they could. and they ve they really haven t found anything. so they say, look, if this is terrorism we ve just never seen anything like this before. so that s why i think the u.s. has sort of been on the outside looking in on the investigation in malaysia. because fit was terrorism i think the u.s. would be able to sort of force its way in because they have this expertise on this issue. but otherwise, as we ve seen so far they re still not very involved. michael schmidt, good to have you on the program as always. mary schiavo as well. captain will stick with us joined by two other veteran pilots bringing years of experience to bear on all the scenarios investigators are looking at. we ll answer some of your questions. follow me @andersoncoo
investigators. they are still looking at all the things that we are sitting around discussing are things that they are sitting around discussing. yeah. i would say the most significant thing, though, is that what law enforcement officials tell me is that if this was terrorism, this is a completely new paradigm. this is something that they ve never seen before. there was no chatter leading up to it, no claim of responsibility now. they scrubbed the flight manifest. they looked at all these people as hard as they could. and they ve they really haven t found anything. so they say, look, if this is terrorism we ve just never seen anything like this before. so that s why i think the u.s. has sort of been on the outside looking in on the investigation in malaysia. because if it was terrorism, i think the u.s. would be able to sort of force its way in because they have this expertise on this issue. but otherwise, as we ve seen so far they re still not very involved. michael schmidt, good
it doesn t take much for a forensic review of the hard disk to say was this a, was there like a practice on the simulator so they can now say hey, it looks like he followed that rehearsal that was on the flight simulator. i think one of the questions that is hanging out there is they ve gone over the flight manifest of who the passengers were. the flight crew. extensive research into the pilot and the co-pilot. but what has not really been answered is whether somebody was on the plane that just wasn t on one of those manifests and that that person may have been involved in what s taken place here. the longer this has gone on, the more speculation has gone to some crazy scenarios that people are painting. but the actual investigators, the longer they go without any evidence of the plane anywhere, any new evidence of the plane, physical evidence showing up, what does this tell them? does that make them think it s more likely a crash, more likely
information. so they probably just wrote it off as oh, we just can t get ahold of them. they re too far behind it. michael, you ve been breaking a lot of stories on this. from what you understand, from your sources, all options are still on the table for investigators. they are still looking at all the things that we are sitting around discussing are things that they are sitting around discussing. yeah. i would say the most significant thing, though, is that what law enforcement officials tell me is that if this was terrorism, this is a completely new paradigm. this is something that they ve never seen before. there was no chatter leading up to it, no claim of responsibility now. they scrubbed the flight manifest. they looked at all these people as hard as they could. and they ve they really haven t found anything. so they say, look, if this is terrorism we ve just never seen anything like this before. so that s why i think the u.s. has sort of been on the outside looking in on the