is they are having a problem with that. but they do believe that there are people that may be able to shed more light on things that happened leading up to this event that may give us a clue as to perhaps why the pilot would have been responsible for an act like this. miles, it s almost impossible to imagine, again, there s a lot of investigating still to be done so all we can say is at this point officials don t have a smoke gun really of the pilot or co-pilot. if indeed it does end up they are involved and if that s how this goes, and there was no smoke gun, and nobody says anything was wrong, that is a truly terrifying prospect that someone could commit an act like this and nothing outwardly would have seemed wrong. the perfect crime, if you will. i would caution everybody, this the pilot is the aviation equivalent of the butler. they are frequently blamed in these cases. it s frankly convenient for
flight without a checked co-pilot supervising him. perhaps they felt comfortable he was with a pilot so seasoned. joining me world news editor for u.s. today, aviation analyst. william, let me start with you again with your reporting that investigators are looking into the captain. you talk about how they are looking into relatives of the captain, trying to get information about his behavior, his state of mind. what are they looking for? i m also curious about what your sources say why there had been such a delay in terms of interview, for example, the pilot s wife. they are trying to get more information out of relatives to determine if there s something there that other people have overlooked that may indicate why this event occurred. farce the wife goes, we re told that they would like to interview her more but at this time they haven t told us why it
kind of a smoke gun or any motive. that s right. kevin johnson at usa today has talked to federal official who said they looked at the hard drive. and they found absolutely nothing in there that would indicate a plan to retrout plane. the malaysian police themselves and it s a very professional force that they have at kuala lumpur, has looked into his finances, the pilot that is. also looked into whether he s had any ties to militancy and found nothing so far. let me ask you, william, your paper source as you said high ranking officer attached to special investigative branch, the malaysian police force and they are saying it s the pilot. there are any concerns you have as an editor the malaysian government could be forcing blame on the pilot, he was a known support of the opposition party as an example to say look this guy did it without really knowing. do you have any concern about that possibility? there s always a possibility with the ruling party in
systematically eliminated the entire group of people sitting behind the pilot and the first officer and the captain that they completely eliminated them and ruled them out i don t buy that earth. these days you can get a flight simulator and a learn a lot flying a 777 sitting at home in your living room. let s not forget the 9/11 hijackers were pretty competent in doing what they did with very limited experience in simulators as well. that s a fair point. able to make turns. john, final word. i want to endorse what miles said to the co-pilot. that s an insult to first officer. first officer is capable of doing these things. we hope he didn t. he s capable of doing it. it s time to remind ourselves and remind everyone out this we still don t have any wreckage from the airplane. we don t know much of anything. everything is a possibility but there are shades of probability. that s why my probability has been on the side of pilot doing this but everything has to
malaysia. but this is dealing with law enforcement. the law enforcement people and the person we spoke to in particular has a long record in the agency. he s with a special branch, it s their version of the fbi. he s worked on many investigations in the past. so, we re not aware of any plot to tie the plot in such a way. john, babsed on what we know and what you hear william say does it sound like a logical condlougs that the pilot may have been responsible? i think both pamela and william said the same thing it s a process elimination and that s correct. i can t see at this point that we have any evidence that has come to the public at least that says that it is the captain versus the first officer. i agree the first officer was very inexperienced but we do know a pilot had to do this. we do know there was a lot of sophistication required. if they are telling us there