that someone in the cockpit deliberately steered that plane off course. it s important to point out this assessment was prepared months ago. it does not come to any firm conclusions about what eventually happened to that plane. here s cnn s u.s. justice correspondent evan perez. this assessment is based on satellite and other available evidence and analysts looked at multiple course changes the aircraft made after it deviated from the scheduled course from kuala lumpur to beijing. analysts determined it is most likely someone in the cockpit deliberately moved the aircraft crossing indonesian and to the indian ocean. that was done for internal government purposes and not meant to be public. a malaysian government report from march said there is no proof of wrongdoing in the plane route.
taken seriously. 239 people were on board the fly mh370 to beijing. the new leader is the tal been s second in command and deputy leader since 2010. according to the u.n. sanctions list he was minister of civil aviation and transportation. following this announcement a new round of peace talks slated it take place between the taliban and afghan government were postponed. cnn international correspondent nic robertson joins us for more on all of this. and nic, given that we are learning that the old taliban lead are may have died two years ago, does that mean that this new leader has effectively been calling the shots for the last couple of years?
community in the suburbs of call la lum pure. he had been flying with malaysian airlines for 24 years and a flight instructor. he had a flight simulator at home. he posted it on you tube. he built it himself. hi, everyone. friends told cnn he built it so he could practice in case the unthinkable happened. he had 18,000 hours of flying and also gave tips on you tube about tinkering with a refrigerator and air conditioner. household air conditioning unit. reporter: at his home no suicide note was found by police to suggest he had ever planned to take mh370 down nor did a preliminary review of his flight simulator hard drive turn up anything suspicious. though some files were deleted in the month before the flight. if you were deleting files off the hard drive to provide more room you would go through
republican challengers. trump tops a feed of 16 candidates with 20%. he is visiting scotland for the women s british open. cnn s dana bash has more on his trip and reaction to the new poll. reporter: one week before the first republican presidential debate the gop front runner landed his helicopter at his golf course in scotland. this is not your father s primary season. amazing day and a half. reporter: he is in europe for the women s british open taking place at his turnberry trump golf course. have a big stake in the land. reporter: his newest investment in his own campaign is paying dividends. another national poll shows him with a significant lead in the republican presidential race 20%. wisconsin governor scott walker trailing at 13% and jeb bush at
from the indian ocean could have moved it from the currents all the way over the island over the past 500 days. you can see why investigators are saying they are increasingly confident. of course lynda, being confident is not the same as being a hundred percent sure. that is true. a lot of detail there. we do know that this piece of debris is now on its way it france. can you explain why it is going to france and what investigators, how quickly they may be able to determine whether this is from the remnants of mh370? lynda, they have a lot to go on here. they he have the fact that there are markings, as i just mentioned. france leading this investigation. sorry, leading the investigation into this particular piece of debris because it washed up on french territory. working closely with the malaysians though. we have a source who told cnn that the americans, ntsb