we just don t know right now. let s bring in our law enforcement analyst into this investigation. there could be major developments discovered on the hard drives but as pam says, there might be nothing. most of the people i talked to, wolf, are really leaning toward probably not a lot. because if he had put in destinations that are somewhat suspicious and exotic, we know he used that simulator for recreation. it might have been just for the heck of it. there ar lot of destinations all over australia, major cities of china, that the malaysian airlines flies to. as a senior captain he could be getting ready to change routes and this week it was beijing and next week it might be sydney, australia or tokyo or some other place. you just don t know. and additionally, not only the major cities they fly to, but when they file the international flight plan, they have to designate alternate cities that may not be where they fly to
immediate. he was in the process of transferring to the boeing 727, and he lives with his parents and siblings, and is that telling you anything? no, it is normal. people of culture doley later so a 27-year-old living at a home is strictly irrelevant. what it does tell me, because i know the makeup of the crew that would have been on the flight. there would have been, and that cap pain was an extremely experien experienced captain. why? because the first officer was inexperienced on the 777. and he was just transitioning, and he had spent months in the simulator learning about the 777, and now he was moving to the actual metal itself, and so he was always flying with a senior captain, a training captain. and that is what happened on the flight that i was with him. you flew with the first officer? yes, and on that occasion, we
that was 2008. this plane was 11 or 12 years old and presumably those problems had been fixed. a problem with frozen fuel injection into the rolls royce engine in heathrow and reported that the wing tip had been repaired. from a physical structure position, this plane is as solid as it gets. rich, what do we know about the actually pilot, the lead pilot of the plane? i take it that this pilot posted videos of a flight simulator he actually had in his home? yes, captain shah is again very experienced captain, training captain, senior captain at malaysia airlines. he absolutely loved flying. he actually had a flight simulator in his home. not a full motion one, but as you can see there. in which he would give lessons and he would instruct and he would perfect his own technique. now, because first officer hamid was relatively inexperienced on the 777, it was a senior captain
experience. he was only transitioning to the fleet. this flight that you see they talked with, charming. he did the landing and the captain, a senior captain described it as text book and perfect. two very competent experienced captain and the first officer. must be hard for to you see. that ties you to this story personally. there has been a lot of talk in light of how wired planes are today, the pilots don t do any more flying and there has been criticism from pilot group that is the skills are not home when there problems. if you were to have a pilot with 18.5,000 miles. that s the kind of pilot you want to control.
monumental catch. he s the senior captain of the totally moore, mark weddington joins us from la. good morning to you, captain. good morning. okay. how did you get your hands on that thing? very slowly. it was found originally by one of our instructors, jasmine. she dragged it about 90 feet through the water. it was dead. yeah, it was dead. dead on the bottom of the ocean rolling around. she saw it there. first she was startled, then she realized it was dead. said no one is going to believe they unless i brought it in. she brought it to the beach. the wind ask waves helped push it up. we all ran down and that s where the picture came from. what do you do with the fish now? research? we re helping institutions around the country get their hands on this. when something like this