One of the main reasons for the continued focus on the pair is that there is nothing else explaining what happened, sources say.Ĭiting an anonymous high-ranking officer attached to a special investigative branch of Malaysian police in Kuala Lumpur, USA Today reported Wednesday that investigators believe the plane’s captain was “solely responsible for the flight being taken hundreds of miles off course.” Investigators are still focusing on the pilots, even though no physical evidence, such as a suicide note, has been found in their homes that would suggest they were planning the plane’s disappearance. There are counterarguments to every theory right now.”
official saying, “I don’t think there is a prevailing theory. investigators continue to be baffled by the plane’s disappearance, with one U.S. The information retrieved from the hard drives will hopefully give investigators leads to follow regarding the pilot’s backgrounds, such as their finances and emotional state and who they had been communicating with. But I expect it to be done fairly shortly within a day or two, to finish that work.” “I don’t want to say more about that in an open setting. “I have teams working literally around the clock to try and exploit that,” Comey said. The official would not reveal what was on the hard drive, but said the Malaysia Airlines pilot did not encrypt any of the files nor did he appear to go to any great lengths to scrub the hard drive when he deleted files last month.įBI Director James Comey said earlier Wednesday that he expects the information would be handed over to the Malaysians in the next day or two. “There is nothing that’s jumping out and grabbing us right now.” “They have accessed the data,” the official said. official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. Six military reconnaissance planes – from Australia, the United States, China and Japan – and five civilian aircraft are set to comb the vast search area again on Thursday.įive ships – one from Australia and four from China – also are in the search zone, Australian authorities said.Īn ongoing FBI review of the missing jet’s pilots’ hard drives, including the captain’s flight simulator, has not turned up a “smoking gun,” a U.S. The search resumed Thursday morning as a Chinese military plane took off for the search area in the southern Indian Ocean, Australian authorities said. “I think eventually, something will come to light, but it’s going to take time.” “There’s always a possibility we might not actually find something next week or the week after,” Mark Binskin, vice chief of the Australian Defence Force, told CNN’s Kate Bolduan on Tuesday. Officials have warned that objects spotted in the water may turn out to be flotsam from cargo ships, and that finding anything from the plane still could take a long time. Until searchers get their hands on the objects, he said, it’s too soon to say whether they are parts of the plane or garbage floating in ocean waters. “There could be many objects floating in the ocean, that are large or small, that are completely unrelated to the crash.” “This is a positive indication that the searchers are getting closer to the origin of the crash, but there are many uncertainties,” said Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer at Florida State University. “So I’m really encouraged by it, I really am.”īut satellites have captured images of objects before during the current search, crews have yet to spot anything definitively linked to the airplane and ships haven’t recovered anything of note.
“It has potential to be a wing that’s floating,” he said.
“There’s a very good chance this could be the break we’ve been waiting for,” he said.Īviation safety analyst David Soucie agreed, saying he was particularly intrigued by the size of the 75-foot object. The latest images appear to be the most significant discovery yet in the hunt for the missing plane, which vanished March 8 with 239 people aboard, said CNN aviation analyst Miles O’Brien. Some appear bright, indicating they may be solid, he said. The latest objects seen on satellite images provided by Airbus Defence and Space range from about 3 feet (1 meter) to about 75 feet (23 meters), Hishammuddin said. Search aircraft did spot three objects, but teams weren’t able to locate them again in several passes through the area, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.
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