news expert. greg thanks for taking time this morning. good morning, steve. i know we had you on yesterday. you tended to agree with the assessment that this plane had been intentionally diverted from its route by someone who knew what they were doing. we now have the malaysian authorities saying they have looking, visiting the homes of the pilots, they took a flight simulator i think from the pilot s home. i wonder from an investigative standpoint, there s all sorts of possibilities here we talked about, could have been a suicide thing, was there a pilot with a gun to his head, what types of things are you hoping to learn from visiting the pilots homes and looking into them like this? well i think now that the authorities have gone in and been able to at least scour some of the personal records of both pilots and of course they re going to be looking at that simulator, they re going to see if there was any kind of dry run by the captain since he had the simulator, to see what k
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there was conclusive evidence once they found the boxes that the co-pilot of that plane while the pilot was out of the cockpit had brought the plane down intentionally. you heard him say these prayers to allah and coincided with the flight plane information he dived the nose into the ocean and they never were able to find anything in that guy s background in egypt that would lead you to believe that he was suicidal, never. so that s discouraging. they took the black box, another thing i ve learned that i didn t know, greg, i heard you say it i think on the today show the black box only runs for two years and starts it s disappointing. ultimately it s possible that we may never know what happened but this whole thing is just unprecedented for a plane of this size with 239 passengers to go missing and it s been what, nine days now? just unbelievable. unprecedented. it is, what a mystery.
just not sure with the fidelity of this data, which isn t much, it s still they may have an area to look at but they don t have a specific point on the ground to look at. and bob just to pick up on something greg was saying, he brought up the silk air crash from 1997 i think it was. yep. there s still dispute over whether that was suicide or whether that was something else. i think you were also mentioning off the air i think it was an egypt air flight a few years earlier and lessons we could draw from that. i think greg feife was out there for that silk air investigation, a singapore airline that crashed in late 1997. earlier an egypt airplane had gone down in 1992 off nantucket out of jfk. that case it took a couple days to find the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder and