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Home, search it and take away those shopping bags, as i saw them on saturday night, of what must be some kind of evidence that they want to go through. so, it took them a week, yes. they have been slow, yes. but now they are going through each and every passenger on board. and by the way, of course, there is also that aviation engineer that was on board. i spoke to his family yesterday. of course, anyone with any kind of aviation expertise will be of particular interest and of high priority, joh...

The captain and co-pilot did not ask to fly together, and that investigators are looking into pilot suicide as a possible cause. officials also say it was the co-pilot, not the captain, who gave the planes last verbal message, "all right, good night." >> kyung lah joins us now from kuala lumpur. its not just the pilot and co-pilot, theres a passenger thats also getting some attention, right? >> reporter: the person youre talking about is 29-year-old aviation engineer. he is someone that they are...

>> reporter: the person youre talking about is 29-year-old aviation engineer. he is someone that they are taking a keen interest on, but they say come on, he is not involved. open the doors, investigate. he is confident his son had nothing to do with this, his father telling us his son was heading to beijing, anderson, because he works for a private jet company and was going to repair a plane there and bring it back to malaysia. >> ive seen a lot of reports about the pilots family left the day b...

370. one report says the plane could have been flying under 5,000 feet. officials in malaysia are defending their choice not to release information until it is verified. and an aviation engineer was on that flight. >> the vote count is official. crimeans deciding to break away from ukraine and join the russian federation. president obama and other western leaders call the referendum illegal, are rejecting it and promising stiff sanctions if moscow does not pull out of the area.

Launching background checks on everyone on board. our saima mohsin is joining us from malaysia js capital, you talked to family members of a young flight engineer also on that plane. how are they taking all of this? >> reporter: with great difficulty, wolf. its a really delicate balance, isnt it? trying to be sensitive to the loved ones and family of those on board the flights, but at the same time having to do the crucial job of asking tough questions and investigating the people on board. i sp...

He wouldnt want to wear his dirty old stuff and probably wouldnt wear a hospital gown if thats the case. its all ready. he is one of the 239 souls on board that plane. somebody needed expertise to disengage the tracking system and fly that plane for hours and hours, investigators have renewed the focus on the crew and specifically the pilot and copilot. they are taking a look at someone new. this is a 29-year-old passenger who happens to be a trained engineer. live from kuala lumpur, me what we ...

Shut it down. >> do you have to remove a panel or something? >> no, no, its sort of like setting something in the computer you have to pull down to a couple of pages. you have to hit the right button to but it is more difficult than setting off the transponder. >> the transponder also has a hijack code on it. if an intruder came into the cockpit that would be the first thing they were wanting to talk with. it p didnt seem to be an intruder it seemed like an inside job. >> there is a report, i wa...

Thing they were wanting to talk with. it p didnt seem to be an intruder it seemed like an inside job. >> there is a report, i want to read this wifor you by the malaysian newspaper said that a passenger on the aircraft was an aviation engineer. they were on the manifest there. it is along with someone catching a ride that would account for some of this problem as well. if someone else was in there they would have disabled the crew before they got to the point which theoretically possible we woul...

Im don lemon. welcome back to our news, our viewers in the united states and around the world. were live tonight with the latest on the breaking news on the disappearance of malaysia air flight 370. weve been telling you about this news that the u.s. intelligence community is increasingly focused on this being a deliberate act from inside the cockpit. was it an act of terror or a suicide mission? want to get back to our panel of experts now. arthur rosenberg, aviation engineer and attorney. evi ...

. did lithium batteries play a in the disappearance of flight 370? this is coming from the correspondent in washington. from pamela brown as well. investigators are looking into concerns that lithium batteries in the cargo hold which have been blamed could have played a role in this investigation that is according to the u.s. officials briefed on the latest intelligence and law enforcement developments in the airliner probe. that is the latest we are looking at. new information is coming in on...