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only person who could have done that on the plane is the pilot. the only person with the technical skills to shut down the transmitter, the transponders and all the other communications capabilities and everything else and redirect the plane toward the indian ocean. your source, your law enforcement source in malaysia concludes it was the pilot. that s right. so now they re trying to find out from some of the people close to them if there s anything that occurred in the days ahead of the flight that maybe they didn t realize was important but may have been. they compare it to previous investigations where someone had sort of had what they call a freakout where something occurred and they decided to do something very drastic and they had no prior background or inkling that it was going to so it s just the presumption basically that because they don t have any direct evidence that the pild dit it. they re just ruling out other possibilities and they re coming to this conclusion
director tom fuentes. william, i ll start with you, you re reporting breaking potentially new ground. tell our viewers precisely what usa today has. as pamela says, a look at captain zaharie s background has not found anything that would indicate that he would have been capable of such a terrible act. they ve looked into his finances, according to our source, who is a high level source for the kuala lumpur meese department. they found nothing amiss, according to this source. they also haven t found any indication of militancy or ties to militant groups. however, they re drawing their conclusion that he deliberately committed this act and they re doing it based on the fact that they believe he is the only one really capable of doing all the things that had been done on that plane to divert it down to the south indian ocean. michael schmidt of the new york times, you ve been doing a lot of reporting on the pilot and co-pilot. what are you hearing? u.s. investigators say that s
just a short while from now, the massive search for flight 370 and objects seen floating in the search zone will resume. aircraft from australia, china, the united states and japan searched the area today. cnn s kyung lah is joining us from perth, australia. what is the latest as far as the search is concerned, kyung? reporter: well, in about 40 minutes, the first planes are going to take off at daybreak. there s a renewed drive here. the reason why? the families have their answers now. we all know what happened to this plane. now we need the evidence. bring those pieces of the plane
here in the situation room. up next, a gray or green circular object spotted by planes over the search zone. they are hoping to retrieve that debris. and so many relatives are accusing malaysian authorities of a coverup and even possible murder. nascar is about excitement. but tracking all the action and hearing everything from our marketing partners, the media and millions of fans on social media