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really becomes a crime scene. that s when the csi work really can begin to put that the pieces back together and see what made them come apart. david, do you think that boeing will ever stop trying to figure out what happened to this plane? we never will stop. you ve got an airplane with a 20-year great safety record. boeing builds terrific airplanes. just, you know, all the little problems that we re that i mentioned, those are kind of one-off problems. and i have, in my gut feeling, i think we come back to something simple that overwhelmed the crew. as tom said, once we had the airplane, now a lot of the questions will be answered. although the background work we do on the passengers, the crew, the maintenance records is a normal portion of the investigation. once you get the airplane, now you can get those little pieces that fit that whole mosaic together so we can determine what it is that caused the airplane to the loss of the airplane. with a pretty high probability. we
since 1981. he s married. he has three children and one grandchild. he lives in a gated luxury community in the kuala lumpur suburbs. he s described by colleagues and friends as an aviation geek. he also owned that in-home flight simulator. and shah was politically aware, supporting malaysia s main opposition parties. david suchy is a cnn safety analyst. peter golds is a cnn aviation analyst and former managing director for the ntsb. welcome, gentlemen. thank you carol. u.s. officials tell cnn that no smoking gun has been found in regards to the pilot s flight simulator data. this pilot seems like a normal guy, doesn t he? i heard the term aviation geek. i guess i fall into that category as well. so i have an aviation simulate normy house. it s not like what he has, but, you know, i don t see anything suspicious about that. and i really don t think they ll
the plane on this southerly course, simply foolish. he s there in case the pilot becomes incapacitated. he flies the plane a significant amount of time. he s a perfectly competently trained pilot. the other question, we haven t really heard much about the ten flight attendants on board that plane or the some 200 passengers. why aren t we hearing more about them, do you suppose, david? well, i know that they are being looked at. i know they are checking all that. it s just that some of the information they are finding there isn t getting out. and rightfully so. until there s some conclusive evidence, there s really no sense in sending that information out. i m surprised they didn t send information to this degree out on the pilots because until it s proven, it s just pure speculation and in an attempt to try to figure out where this airplane may have gone, which is healthy. it s a good thing to do but to release it in this way is not a good thing. peter is it possible that
by cnn s law enforcement analyst and others. david, some theorists say the co-pilot could be to blame because he was too inexperienced to make that sharp westward turn. could you argue the 9/11 hijackers were way inexperienced, too, and they managed to hit their targets, sadly? i think that s going into speculation again. there s a lot of danger in doing that. in my history with investigations is when you start starting to try to find conclusions, all the fact comes along and try to support that. so it really can lead you in the wrong direction. i ve tried to stay away from speculating about why or who. but rather the what. rather the what. go ahead. the person sitting in the right seat can fly the aircraft completely competently. that s why they re there. that s why you have two pilots. any indication that the co-pilot might not have the skill to fly