hours, something that s not very easily explained, wolf. the suspicion being someone deliberately made all those turns, changed the altitude and all of the rest. barbara, thanks very much. let s take a closer look now at the suggestion that the airliner s captain deliberately redirected the plane and that the crash was no accident. that s at the heart of a new article just reported in usa today. and i m joined now by the paper s world news editor, william dermotty along with former assistant fbi director tom fuentes and our cnn aviation analyst miles o brien. william, thanks very much for cominging in. let s talk a little bit about this report that you have. tell us specifically what usa today is reporting. that investigators who have been on this since day one are telling our reporter on the ground at kuala lumpur that they re focusing solely on the pilot as the reason for the disappearance of the 777.
were going on or any information from the flight data or the voice recorder. you ve heard that suspicion as well. that s right. that the recorders may never be found. and then if they are, the voice recorder part of the recorders is probably going to be written over and there will be no cockpit voice recording that occurred at the time of the initial turning off the transponders and the acars stopping the broadcast and the plane making the left turn, then other left turns, all of that will be lost from the voice recorder. these pilot suicides in the past, it was determined by the voices, the data recorder will tell you the plane went up, down, sideways, left, right, but it won t tell you why or who was at the controls. the voice recorder will reveal that information and if it s written over, it s gone. if they never find this flight data recorder or the voice recorder, we may never know, william, what happened specifically, right? well, right. the investigator that we talked to i
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