The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Were following two breaking developments. Usa today, newspaper, quotes a senior malaysian investigator as saying police now believe the captain deliberately redirected the aircraft but sources tell cnn theres no firm conclusion on that. And it may be the best lead yet in the hunt for the airliner. Aircraft will take off shortly and everyone on board will be looking for 122 objects spotted by a satellite. Ranging in size from about three feet to 78 feet. They were floating in the search zone spread over 154 square miles. But the satellite images were taken sunday and storms may have scattered that debris even further. Our analysts and reporters there are standing by in washington as well as around the world with the kind of special coverage that only cnn can deliver. First, though, to the breaking news, stunning new details on the investigation of the men who were actually flying flight 370. Tonight usa today is reporting that the overseas investigation is focussed in on the captain of the plane and whether he took the plane down deliberately. Cnn is learning more tonight about that investigation and what american officials are saying. Lets go to our justice correspondent pamela brown for the very latest. Pam . Wolf, while the usa today article points to a deliberate act by the 53yearold captain, is zaharie shah, they still havent willing to leave anything out. The captain here seen in a new tribute video posted online did not leave suicide note or any other evidence at his home that showed he planned to take down the flight. Tonight cnn has learned from sours that after a preliminary review of the hard drive from his home Flight Simulator, u. S. Investigators have found no smoking gun. I have teams working literally around the clock to try and exploit that. I dont want to say more about that in an open setting but i expect it to be done fairly shortly, within a day or two to finish that work. Reporter sources say so far it does not appear shah went to Great Lengths to scrub the hard drive when files were deleted last month or that he had encrypted any of the files. Sources say investigators have also not found any incriminating data on the hard drive of his 27yearold copilot seen here in an interview with cnns Richard Quest weeks before the plane disappeared. Tonight sources say the fbi is still working to build a profile of the mens emotional, financial, and personal backgrounds and to review interviews of family and friends being done by malaysian investigators. The first week i think people were looking at mechanical failure. So theres probably just about two weeks of actual time to do a thorough investigation. Thats not enough time to really turn over all of the potential clues in an investigation like this. Shah seen here going through Airport Security was a arented pilot who had been with Malaysia Airlines since 1981, flying more than 18,000 miles. The 53yearold seen here with his family was married with three grown children. Cnn is not showing their faces. The family lived here in a gated community, but a source close to the family says his wife routinely stayed somewhere else when he was flying. In his free time, he posted videos like this one online. Showing him in front of his home Flight Simulator talking not about his job but about his interest in Home Improvement projects. While shah posted frequently to youtube and facebook, less is known about shahs copilot who had just finished his training on the 777 and was on his first flight in the cockpit unsupervised on the jumbo jet. The copilot was also engaged to his Flight School sweetheart. While there is no concrete proof, evidence at this point, the pilots deliberately sabotaged that plane, examining them is still a top priority for investigators. But as one of my sources said i dont think there is any prev l prevailing theory right now. There are counterarguments to every theory. The sense i get from talking to sources is people are still baffled by the planes di appearance. They certainly are, pam. Thanks. Our aviation analyst, the former 777 pilot mark weis and cnn aviation analyst peter goulds, former ntsb managing director and senior Law Enforcement analyst, former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. So, were going to be speaking shortly with the world editor from usa today on their reporting why they have their sources with Malaysian Police suggesting that the pilot, not the copilot, the pilot may have deliberately diverted the plane for whatever reason. So what are you hearing, tom . You were pretty well plugged into this investigation. Ive been informed by a senior malaysian Government Official that there has been no information developed thats derogatory against either pilot, and that includes that they searched their house and there was nothing left in the house, no suicide note, theres 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. Theres 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 theyve been informed so far nothing derogatory has been developed but the investigation continuing but will be wrapped up within a day or two and theyll have their results by the end of the week. Thats what you heard the fbi director saying, within a day or so. Have they managed, as far as you know, to recreate all the deleted, e valesed files . No. I was not given the details of it. That will all come out in the 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 doesnt 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 im not really surprised the malaysians, for whatever reasons they may have, they dont want to go as far to make an accusation like this against a fellow malaysian. Thats 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 copilot had a confrontation back at his hotel and that he was under severe disciplinary judgment from the airlines. So that was your initial suspicion and then it bore fruit as you continued the investigation. Absolutely. How long did it eventually take you to conclude that for sure it was pilot suicide . Three weeks. Once we got the voice recorder and the voice recorder was transcribed we knew without a shadow of a doubt what had occurred. But we dont know, obviously, we dont know, mark, that the pilot or the copilot had anything to do with it. For all we know they might have been heroes trying to resist somebody else trying to come boo into the cockpit or whatever. But lets assume one of the piles wanted to do this. Could a pile on his own turn off the transponder, turn off the Electrical Communications capabilities, all the radar, all the pinging, Everything Else, silence satellite phones that may have been in Business Class or whatever, all the other communications on that plane. Could one individual potentially have done that and continue that plane flight for seven hours into the indian ocean . Wolf, again, the hypothesis always existed that this could have happened from the cockpit. Again, we dont know if they were heroes or one of them or both of them were trying to take down the airplane, but absolutely somebody from the cockpit, one of the pilots could have taken it down. Weve seen world pilots before. Its not a very big part of the population but what if the pile say the pile, 53yearold zaharie shah, the pilot, wanted to do it. He has a copilot sitting next to him, 27yearold junior pilot, shall we say, and hes resisting. What do you do then . If hes resist, again, go back to what we first heard, that there was swings in the altitude. We dont know that thats true, but to me that early on said there could have been a possible struggle in the cockpit to maintain control or to keep control over that aircraft. So thats a real scenario. You think that vogs are looking at this possibility, just a possibility, a theory right now that the pilot may have decided for whatever unknown reason to do Something Like this . They have to look at it. Theres no other question. Youve got examine it. Youve got to put it as a priority. But you cant cyr rhee in zero to the exclusion of others. Does the fbi are they playing a role in speaking to family and friends or simply relying on malaysian thundershowers to do this . Are they actually on the ground talking to people about lets say the pilot . Right. The malaysian government, their police are doing that. But getting back to the original point, in the egyptair case, they defended their pilot because either its egyptian airs fault for having this pilot crash that plane or its boeings fault for the plane breaking in midair and crashing. In this case, the malaysian government isnt innocent whether the pile does or not because if it turns out to be lack of cockpit secure, lack of Airport Security, somebody from the ground crew, a passenger breaking into the cockpit, all of that still makes it negligent security on the part its not the pilot versus boeing. Its the pilot and there was another pilot suicide that you guys worked on. The indonesian Silk Airlines plane. Right. The u. S. Concluded it was pilot suicide. The indonesian government never accepted that either, did they. They did not. What was their argument then . Well, they tried to identify it as a rudder problem. But it was clear to us that this plane did not perform the way previous 737 that did have a rudder issue crash and we looked into his background, he had had severe trading lotszs on the monetary exchange. He had just taken out a large Life Insurance policy. And the way in which the voice recorder was turned off gave us indication. Mark, youre a 777 pilot. Is there any smoking gun evidence, anything you would look at right now to determine if one of the individuals in the cockpit may have been responsible for this tragedy . Well, certainly you can go back into the train records, youre going to go back into as weve already heard, their personal histories, financial histories. Talk to the people that they flew with before, talk to the cabin crew members, cockpit crew members. Was there anything out of the ordinary, if youve known them for years. This pilot had been with them a few decades so he would have had experience to be working with other people. That would have been an area we want how significant if at all should it be that the pilot, the 53yearold pilot, zaharie shah, was politically active with the opposition in malaysia . Im sure theyre looking at, that but is that something investigators should be looking at to see how active politically he was with the opposition, especially the Opposition Leader who was sentenced to a long prison sentence and there were reports that the pilot actually may have been close to the courtroom during that sentencing . They looked at it very closely and the fact that he had that political affiliation, they still dont find any reason based on that that he would crash the plane because of that. Thats their determination because of now. But again, it doesnt rule out any of these things arent true. It just says as of now they have not found they want really hard evidence, which is totally understandable. You dont 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 werent 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, thats where youve got to dig and youve got to dig deeply. All those questions are being investigated by malaysian authorities, not u. S. Officials dont have access to that kind of information, tom, is that right . That is a very Outstanding Police force, the royal malaysia. The fbi has worked closely with them for more than a decade. Al qaeda held their summit meeting in kuala lumpur before the 9 11 event here, so this is not just some better than the Indonesian Police force . Theyre good police too. Because theyre the one who is disputed the u. S. Conclusion on the Silk Airlines pile. Theres political reasons. If theres a way you can introduce a mechanical you take a liability off the that country and put it on boeing, the manufacturer, or rollsroyce if they made the engine. Or if its national pride. National pride. In silk air and in egypt, in silk air it was national pride. There was an element that they did not want this to be on their shoulders. In egyptair, there were a number of other National Security issues. Very quickly, what were they . If you recall, the malaysian government themselves over the issue of turning the aircraft said human hands turned that plane, not mechanical. They are right there saying its our liability, either our pilots or our lack of security that let somebody else come in and take over. But a human flew that plane. Theyre saying right there it was not fair point. Excellent point. Thanks very much, guys. Dont go too far awap. Up next so, was it a Suicide Mission . 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We cannot rule out anything at this stage unless and until we recover the cockpit voice recorder, we will not know for certain. That search goes on and we too are assisting in the search and we just have to hope that we will be successful in locating that vital piece of evidence. So, you know, perhaps a real reflection of the bottom line which is nobody knows at this point, but could it have been a terrorist attack . Well, one of the reasons a lot of u. S. Government officials are sort of trending away from that idea is theres been no claim of responsibility by any terrorist group, and thats what you would typically see in a terrorist attack. But if, in fact, as people are beginning to suspect, it might have been something deliberate from the cockpit, from someone in the cockpit, always possible they might have had a political motivation, could have been personal trouble, Something Like that. The idea that it may have been a deliberate action from the cockpit keeps coming back, wolf, to the notion that people are looking at at least around the u. S.