members, the passengers, the cargo, the ground crew from day one and they ve been unrelenting and haven t come off of that position. all of that, though, has not revealed anything that would indicate that the pilot or co-pilot did this. pamela, are you hearing when we heard the fbi director say they expect to complete their investigation of the hard drives of the flight simulator taken from the pilopilot s home and t co-pilot s computer, and they ll make it available to malaysian authorities. will they make it available to all of us? my understanding is they ll hand it over to the malaysian authorities and let them decide if they want to release it or not. they re handling this investigation. they gave the fbi that to investigate the data. it has been a full tilt drive to recover that data and paint a better picture of who these two
still don t find any reason based on that that he would crash the plane because of that. that s their determination because of now. but again, it doesn t rule out any of these things aren t true. it just says as of now they have not found they want really hard evidence, which is totally understandable. you don t want to convict someone who may be dead right now without giving a fair chance for that person to make his case right now. what else should they be looking at if you weren t involved, peter, in this investigation? i think you want to go back to look at finances, personal ro relationships, dig into political affiliations and see if there was, as tom pointed out, any change in his personality over the past month or six weeks. i mean, that s where you ve got to dig and you ve got to dig deeply. all those questions are being investigated by malaysian authorities, not u.s. officials don t have access to that kind of information, tom, is that right? that is a very outstan
passengers families. let s talk about the investigation and legal options. jeffrey toobin along with our asks analyst miles o brien and peter goals. jeffrey, assuming the pilot was responsible, pilot suicide that has been the case in at least two other major disasters. who would be legally liable as far as compensating the passengers are concerned? let s start with the basics. the basics are that under the international treaty known as the montreal convention, every passenger is almost certainly entitled to about $175,000 from the airline. but if a court proceeding could show that there was the fault of the pilot or otherwise the fault of an airline employee, the airline could be responsible for a great deal more money. so if the pilot or co-pilot brought it down, the airline would be responsible for enormous damages.