Filmed as coming from the 777. Some could just be white caps, others may have sunk or been moved considerably by wind, waves and ocean currents. Some could just be junk. Theres that to contend with tonight. Theres also the lingering question of what role if any the flight 370s captain played in the crash. Tonight youre going to hear from a reporter whose source in malaysian Law Enforcement is telling her the captain may have become deranged or flipped out and is responsible for diverting the plane. That based on a single malaysian Law Enforcement source by usa today stands in stark contrast to cnns own reporting that theres no evidence the pilot is to blame. Youll also hear some of the captains staunchest defenders including his son. There is a lot to cover tonight starting with kyung lah in western australia. Whats the latest . Reporter well, the latest is that the search has begun. Thats word from the australian authorities. But the planes have not taken to the air, anderson. Were not exactly sure why there is this delay, but we are told the search will take place. Whether weather in this part of the world very unpredictable. Yesterday we were told it was unlikely the planes would take off. Now were told they will take off at some point today. That p 8 poseidon departing from perth, were told it will take place as scheduled, anderson. This new report of possible debris spotted by thailand satellites, all those images were taken days ago, correct . Reporter days ago. But its another bread crumb. It really helps the people who are taking to the planes, who are heading to this region. It gives them a little more hope that theyre looking in the right area. A little more guidance about where to go. Just like you were saying, anderson, these currents are constantly changing. This ocean is so deep. And theyre not sure if its under the water, if theyve gone over the area and its disappeared. So they have to keep combing over that area again and again. Frustrating, but they say they want to bring this evidence back just for those families, anderson. Kyung, thanks very much. Commander William Marks joins us aboard the uss blue ridge. Commander marks, i understand the u. S. Is senting another asset to participate in the search. What can you tell us about it, and will you then keep two p 8s in the search as well . We are sending another p 8 poseidon, our most advanced patrol aircraft. Were sending it from its foredeployed location in okinawa, japan, down to perth, australia. That will give us two of our p 8 poe si poseidons down there along with an International Contingent of partners, china, south korea, japan, australia. A great effort by a lot of countries down there. But yes, we are taking a second p 8 and moving it into perth to give us essentially an everyday presence if needed by the australians. So as you know, its a Long Distance way down to the search area. It really stretches the legs of the p 8 and really the p 8 is the best plane available in the world for this kind of thing. It pushes its limits. Were talking a very challenging environment. But the key is and this is why we still need to fly over this area. We still do not have a really good point for this debris. Thats why weve got to keep flying out here. When you say you dont have a really good point for the debris, there have been satellite images of multiple pieces of debris, whether theyre from the plane or not we simply dont know. But those points, what, are the intelligence on that is days old . Is that what it is . Yes. So the satellite imagery, its very helpful but its not realtimer confirmation. Thats what we need. What we want to do is have either our plane or any plane area, get a visual confirmation hopefully of numerous pieces of debris, and then from there we have our oceanography team ready to reverse engineer the environmentals. So they will do a reverse plot going back 18 days, taking into account the current, the wind, the sea state. And then they will from the last confirmation of debris they will work backwards to create this starting point of where the plane may have crash landed. Of course, thats when well get our towed fingpinger locater on scene. The towed pinger locater, where is it at this point . Its in perth right now. And the critical thing to know is, the search area right now is way too big still. It will not be effective to use that when you dont have a good datum. It needs to be towed very slowly, one to four knots, and it simply cannot search hundreds of mile area like it is right now. So we still need to keep flying. We still need to get a visual confirmation on the debris, let our oceanographers work backward and get that datum so we have a good central point. The black box only has a range of maybe a mile or so. So its not like its pinging out this very strong signal. You have to be close to get a hit on it. Commander marks, appreciate all youre doing and talking to us. Cnn safety analyst david soucie author of why planes crash cnn aviation analyst and veteran prieflt pilot miles obrien, david gallo leader for the France Flight 477. And mary schiavo who currently represents accident victims and their families. Miles, you heard the commander theyre sending in a second p 8 aircraft. Do you believe there are enough assets on the ground, on the water, in the air, given how large the search area is . No. No. Given the size of the search area, the current weather and expected weather fall into winter i dont think theres nearly enough assets there. Theres another 10 or 11 p 8s in the u. S. Fleet. Theres 120 p 3s. Why not send an Aircraft Carrier down there . The George Washington is sitting in japan right now. You could put it close on station. They dont have aircraft that are ideally suited for search and rescue. The p 8 cant land on an Aircraft Carrier. Its a landbased aircraft. But theres the e 2 and c 2. Both aircraft have longrange off the Aircraft Carrier. Theyre not set up for this. And then of course helicopters. You could get a lot more eyeballs on scene just by doing that. And im sure that this is one of those things that the u. S. Navy doesnt want to barge in on this. And theyre waiting for an invitation perhaps from either the malaysians or the australians or some combination. But there is so little time to make a find before therell be no searching there at all for quite some time. And were going to go through a winter where we wont have an answer . I think its time to send in the fleet. What else are they doing . Miles, actually youve gotten a lot of tweets from viewers asking why not send in some sort of drones. I actually talked to commander marks about that. He said the distance was prohibitive. Do you think another reason is potentially the u. S. Doesnt want that Technology Operating in an environment where you have china, other countries operating . Thats my hunch on it frankly, aernnderson. The global hawk has endurance on i think the order of 20 hours. It clearly has more range than a p 8. Now again, its what you outfit it with, what the cameras like. But the cameras certainly had the ca the capability of seeing things and targeting things and killing things on the ground. Perhaps they might be modified in some fashion to be used in this manner. Certainly youd extend the time on station as it were. The point is, there is so little time and the conditions are so adverse right now that its precious time. In my view with five ships and about 11 airplanes, not enough assets there. David soucie, what do you make of that . Do you think there are enough assets . I think he has a good point. Ive been wondering why they didnt have some kind of platform out there. From there the drones and eagle eye is another one they could be using, the drone, it has far less range but it has a very good capability of taking photographs, and it complements the p 8s. The p 8s can serve as kind of a central processing area from the drones. Its been used before. Had the drones crossing and reporting back to the p 8. David gallo, it seems like conditions on the surface of the water have been so bad that the australian ship the success which i think is the largest ship the australia has thats had to leave the search area because of the large swells. Yeah. Anderson, just from the outside looking in, it began as frustrating but now its turning nightmarish. If they cant forecast a day or two about where that debriss going to be so they can find it, how are you going to hind cast it and go back 18 days . I dont know how youll begin to do that. So youre skeptical of of just the technology we have or just because of the conditions, the roughness of the seas about actually finding this stuff . Well, yeah. Im thinking they must have people that are forecasting where that debris is going to be. We saw it here one day, tomorrow it should be here lets look there. We know its probably not going to be sitting in the same place. But you have to use that same technology, knowledge of the winds, knowledge of the currents, and the knowledge of the debris field itself to hind cast it to go back a day, two days, three days, a week, two weeks and more to find out where it first came from. So its getting more than tougher every day. We may be past the point of no return on being able to get a real accurate x marks the spot from that debris. Wow. Mary, do you agree with that . Youve looked at the images of the debris. Does it look like debris fields youve seen in past ocean crashes . It does. The more recent ones do look like a debris field. It gets pretty widely dispersed, the parts and pieces get broken up into smaller pieces. Sometimes they can stay together. Theres lots of wiring on the planes. Theres lots of things that kind of act almost like a net. So it can stay in groups. But the pieces do look more like what you see. Because when a plane hits the water, its a very hard impact. It breaks up on impact. It is, miles, so frustrating that so much of this satellite intelligence were talking about is days old so that its not in the same location, and you would think given every day it seems like another satellite has picked up a debris field, it is kind of amazing that nothing has actually been spotted yet. Yeah. The lag time is the problem. The satellite comes on station, comes down, gets processed, you got a few days there. It gets to the people in place. And then meanwhile this moving target has gone on its merry way in incredibly rolling and violent seas. So the combination of all that, its not just a needle in the haystack. The needle and haystack are moving. Tweet us your questions use ac360. Malaysian authorities now believe the pilot diverted the plane possibly after somehow becoming unhinged in some way or deranged in some way. Thats a usa today report based on a single malaysian Law Enforcement source. Were going to talk to the reporter who has that source about what she is haearing from that source and how confidence she is in that source. Well talk to the New York Times our own correspondent. Later another remarkable and very welcome rescue from the washington mudslide. Four legs, a wagging tail and a lot of people very happy to see this dog alive. Well be right back. Hey there, i just got my bill, and i see that it includes my fico® credit score. Yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. Good. I hate surprises. Surprise at discover, we treat you like youd treat you. 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First though heres pamela brown with a very different picture of the pilot. Reporter the son of captain zaharie shah is breaking his silence, defending his father against claims he might be responsible for sabotaging flight 370. The captains youngest son, 26yearold ahmed seth dismissed criticism of his father ive Read Everything on line but ignored all the speculation. I know my father better. We may not be as close as he travels so much, but i understand him. And in an interview with cnns jim clancy, the former ceo of Malaysia Airline said he knew shah well. Hes an excellent pilot. And i think also an excellent gentleman. I think theyre going the wrong way. Theyre pointing a finger at him. Reporter and the current ceo of Malaysia Airlines defended him and his copilot, fa fariq hamid. The reports have been quite exemplary. Reporter sources tell cnn that despite speculation of deliberate action to divert the plane, investigators havent yet found any evidence to suggest a premeditated act by either pilot. A u. S. Official tells cnn that a preliminary review of the captains simulator and both pilots computers have not yielded a socalled smoking gun so far. The captain, seen here in a new Video Tribute posted online did not leave a suicide note and noefd was found in his home to suggest financial or marital problems. Captain shah, seen here going through airport security, was a respected pilot who had been with Malaysia Airlines says 1981, flying more than 18,000 hours. The 53yearold was married with three grown children. Cnn is not showing the faces of his entire family. Captain shahs daughter was reportedly a student, studying in melbourne, australia. The family home was here in a gated community in malaysia, but a source close to the family says his wife routinely stayed somewhere else when he was flying. Shah was a public supporter of of malaysian Opposition Party leader and attended pro democracy rallies. In his free time he posted videos like this one on line. Showing him in front of his home flight simulator, talking not about his job but about his interest in Home Improvement projects. Less is known about shahs copilot, fariq hamid. He was engaged to his Flight School sweetheart. After recently finishing his training on the 777 he was on his first flight in the cockpit unsupervised on the jumbo jet. Our pamela brown joins us now from washington. You say theres no concrete evidence at least as of yet to support the notion that the pilots deliberately sabotaged the plane. But investigators are not ruling out that possible, correct . Reporter absolutely. Its still early in the investigation, anderson. Investigators are still pulling back the layers of the onion so to speak. Even though it appears theres nothing at this point jumping out to investigators from the hard drive that would indicate culpability. Clues from the hard drive could give malaysian official leads that could end up being important in this investigation. So bottom line here, anderson, sources telling me investigators havent found anything that would support or rule out the idea that either pilot planned to take down that plane. Thi they arent accusing them of anything or letting them off the hook. You have to start at the point closest to the crime. In this case thats the cockpit. But again, were sort of reiterating here that its too premature to jump to conclusions from talking to sources. If in fact a crime was involved. Pamela brown, appreciate it. I want to bring in a reporter for usa today. She was the first one to report these suspicions of captain shah front and center. Also with us avenuiation correspondent Richard Quest and Michael Schmidt of the New York Times. Mya, you cant tell me who your source is but you says its a malaysian Law Enforcement source, somebody youve worked with a lot in the past whos given you good information in the past whose information you have trusted in past who doesnt really go beyond what he or she knows. Beyond that, what exactly is your source telling you about ma malaysian authorities or at least the people that your source is working with now believe about the pilot . Well, beyond what i have said in usa today theres nothing much that im getting out of him at this point in time. Except that hes a wellplaced source. I have worked with him for many years now. Hes a seniorranking officer in the special branch and elite squad. And he knows exactly what hes doing. So his information clearly suggests that the pilot was responsible for deliberately diverting the plane. That is what i went with when i reported for usa today. When you say deliberately diverting the plane, theres a logical explanation to that, a problem in the cockpit, looking for a wanting to find a runway to land or theres a nefarious explanation for that. Did your source explain any motivation for why the pilot was believed to have been the one to divert the plane . Well