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List of name, passengers and crew. thats a process thats going to have to happen with the police and investigators, carol. >> thats right. now there are 239 suspects, right? thats what investigators are combing through, backgrounds of each and every person on board the plane. i want to ask about the cockpit door and how it was fortified. can you tell the us that? >> reporter: i can tell you this. the particular pilot thats flown this plane. he said after 9/11 doors were strengthened. he says the...

Service members 50 years hence? >> those are big policy issues, but all of those issues that lgbt issue, the racial issues, all of those things have long ago been solved on the battlefield where, as general mccaffrey was saying, that the camaraderie, the intense love that is built up between combat soldiers and marines that enables them to say, yeah, ill give up my life for you and i know that youll give up your life for me. that is just overridden. all of those other differences so that in an i...

Background of the pilot, the co-pilot, and anybody else on that plane that had the skill to fly it. >> reporter: meanwhile, for the family of american phillip wood, the wait is agony. >> i dont believe that the plane has been crashed. i havent ever believed that the plane has been crashed. it just doesnt make sense to me. and i dont feel like thats the right answer. >> reporter: investigators continue to look at the backgrounds of everyone on board, including an off-duty flight engineer. but his...

That casts doubt into whether they are even looking in the right ocean. our big story is, of course, the fate of flight 370. and why dont we begin in the country leading the so-called investigation. kyung lah is in kuala lumpur. good to see you. i guess anybody watching this story wouldnt be blamed if they rolled their eyes every time they heard the words "senior malaysian official." theyre not exactly filling us with confidence. but what about the people there? what are the folks in malaysia ma...

This has been if youre frustrated, were all frustrated in trying to get straight answers but clearly they did not take the flight simulator until sunday. the other thing were struggling with -- it may have been saturday. the other thing were struggling with, theres nothing that we have seen so far in either the background of the pilot or co-pilot that suggests in any way that they were -- that there was anything suspect there. both of these two individuals seem to have very good clean background...

New word from the chief executive of malaysia airlines that casts doubt into whether they are even looking in the right ocean. our big story is, of course, the fate of flight 370. and why dont we begin in the country leading the so-called investigation. kyung lah is in kuala lumpur. good to see you. i guess anybody watching this story wouldnt be blamed if they rolled their eyes every time they heard the words "senior malaysian official." theyre not exactly filling us with confidence. but what ab...

Wreckage that has been found so we have to work in the margins and try to assist those searchers with some information that may help lead them to pinpoint a location where that airplane might be. one of those avenues of investigation is looking at people with the skills to fly that airplane and access and it starts with the pilots but it goes beyond that. its anybody else on that airplane, and then from that, you look at their backgrounds. what motivation might they have to do something sinister...

This. otherwise, you look for those subtle psychological issues, like unhappy marriage or failed relationship. those are the kind of things, you can imagine, i mean, ordinary psychological kind of scenarios that come with everyday life. looking for something that would make a person very unhappy. unhappy experience at work, you know, that kind of thing. but thats touchy work, i mean, its hard to uncover that sort of thing >> and youre also, peter, looking at every single passenger and every memb...

The pilot or somebody else on board with considerable flying experience. police searching the homes of the pilot and copilot and investigators checking the backgrounds of all 227 passengers and the 10 other crew members but what would somebody want to do with a boeing 777? joining us is michael boyd, aviation security analyst. what would somebody want to do with that big, fairly new jet? >> thats the big question. we have to ask. the plane is now in somebodys court. obviously it was taken somepl...

Hard evidence, you know, something they wrote, something they left, some idea that theyd been planning something like this. otherwise, you look for those subtle psychological issues, like unhappy marriage or failed relationship. those are the kind of things, you can imagine, i mean, ordinary psychological kind of scenarios that come with everyday life. looking for something that would make a person very unhappy. unhappy experience at work, you know, that kind of thing. but thats touchy work, i m...