reports give on the malaysians when the malaysians choose to release that information. so, peter, you were involved in the egyptair suicide pilot investigation. to this day, the egyptian government doesn t believe it was pilot suicide. they insist it was something else. you at the ntsb, united states concluded it was pilot suicide. so i raise that because i m not really surprised the malaysians, for whatever reasons they may have, they don t want to go as far to make an accusation like this against a fellow malaysian. that s right. and the egyptians at first were more receptive to our approach, but i can tell you, the ntsb had no doubt about egypt air. we had the evidence. it was clear. but for whatever reason, the egyptians would not accept that. and we had that evidence starting to build early on in the investigation. how early? we knew within 48 hours that the co-pilot had a confrontation back at his hotel and that he was under severe disciplinary
that s true, wolf. but those cases, the opinion that the co-pilots crashed the plane is based on cockpit voice recorders where they could hear the struggle at the cockpit, knew who was at the controls, knew from data recorders what exactly those aircraft did as they crashed. in this case, you don t have that. so this judgment is being made on the absence of other evidence. why don t the malaysians release the recordings of what the pilot and the co-pilot were saying to ground control during the first 40 minutes of that flight? they haven t released the audio tape and they haven t released the transcript. i don t know. you have to realize there s two separate investigations going on and all the confusions and changes in reporting have been based on the technicians looking at radar, looking at satellites, looking at civil aviation radar from the air traffic controllers in kuala lumpur. that s specific from what the police are doing. police have zeroed in on the cockpit crew, the ot
searched their house and there was nothing left in the house, no suicide note, there s been nothing found about their finances, their personal lives that indicate depression or being an extremist group or some other reason to be motivated to either commit suicide or that they went crazy or that. there s no evidence of it, no indication of it. they did say that the fbi promised that the report should be in the hands of the malaysians by friday or on friday. the fbi report of the hard drives from the flight simulator he had in his home as well as their personal computers. right. but they ve been informed so far nothing derogatory has been developed but the investigation continuing but will be wrapped up within a day or two and they ll have their results by the end of the week. that s what you heard the fbi director saying, within a day or so. have they managed, as far as you know, to re-create all the deleted, e valesed files? no. i was not given the details of it. that will all
before, there s no evidence to back it up. when you hear this come from the malaysians, you have to wonder whether this is just another misstep of theirs. are they just trying to put a book end on the end of this story the same way as when they came out the other day and said that everyone on the plane had died. i m a bit skeptical. because they seem to be making a conclusion without much to back it up. there is a political connection in the sense that he was active with the political opposition in malaysia including with the opposition leader who was sentenced to a long prison sentence and supposedly he was either in the courtroom or near the courtroom during that sentencing and people have been making that political connection for whatever reason. well, that s true. we don t know if that s what could have upset him in such a way that he would commit such an act and there s no evidence yet of that except that he was, of course, according to friends, pretty upset about what had hap
place a day later, you re not looking at the same water. it moves, and it moves very fast in this part of the ocean. it moves 20, 30 miles per day. and it moves in a random, chaotic way. reporter: experts say the possibility that the objects were clumped together does offer hope that this could be the wreckage of the plane or it could be unrelated. it could be something like the docks we saw wash ashore on the west coast of the united states following the japan tsunami or it could be some other remnant that has fallen overboard on an ocean-going vessel. malaysian officials are under intense pressure from the chinese, who have 154 passengers on board. the malaysians today gave an extensive briefing to a chinese envoy. but the anger of relatives of those on board still vented in public. in stark contrast, a moment of silence in the australian par lam for the presumed victims. and in the united states, the