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Singapore for the new year holiday, lets go to richard quest, he is cnns aviation correspondent, joining us via skype, what can you tell us about the pilot, about his amount of experience flying this aircraft and about the safety record of the aircraft? >> reporter: the pilot had six hours of flying experience the other pilot had 2,000 hours. certainly not inexperienced, quite often youll see captains in the left hand seat going to 12,000 the, 14,000 15,000 hours of experience. so i would say yo...

Wasabi ginger and bacon mac and cheddar which is obviously the best thing there is. with the cappuccino chips, theres no coffee or caffeine in it. what gives it the flavor, no clue. try it if you dare. this is the winner, though. i wish i could take this home but im guessing the descenders will vault. kennedy was piloting the single engineer craft. he had only 300 hours of flying experience. it was a hazy night without a moon and kennedy was not qualified to fly with his instruments only. dive...

Minutes before the crash. now, one thing investigators did say is there is no indication that this was anything but an accident. no sabotage, they believe. the two pilots had nearly 30,000 hours of flying experience between them. the plane itself only had about 5,000 hours of flying time. so, it is really a big mystery tonight and a big loss for the city of philadelphia, the city of camden and a lot of benefactors of those many charitable interests he had. >> thank you. now to the battle of case...

Minutes before the crash. now, one thing investigators did say is there is no indication that this was anything but an accident. no sabotage, they believe. the two pilots had nearly 30,000 hours of flying experience between them. the plane itself only had about 5,000 hours of flying time. so, it is really a big mystery tonight and a big loss for the city of philadelphia, the city of camden and a lot of benefactors of those many charitable interests he had. >> thank you. now to the battle of case...

The captain was a veteran in the cockpit with more than 18,000 hours of flying experience. but today malaysian authorities revealed new information about the planes first officer. lea gabe gabrielle has experience herself. >> he had more than 2700 hours of flying time, li he didnt have muff experience in the 777. malaysian authorities said this was the copilots sixth flight in the 777 and his first time without an instructor shadowing him. he had been flying with malaysia airlines since 2007 and...

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...

Significant aviation experience. that leads investigators to the two pilots as possible suspects. one thing was made very clear at this mornings press conference and that was the two men had not asked to fly together. so any speculation that they may have been working together to help coordinate this event, that seems to have been dashed by that information. both of their homes have been searched. and the pilot, who was 53 and had 18,000 hours of flying experience he joined the airline on 1981. ...

Is it present there? so theyd be looking for that type of information. >> kind of curious that we dont have the full answers with regard to all the background checks from these 239 people onboard. some countries have yet to do so. is that really that challenging to find information like that? >> not really. its inexplicable why its taking so long and its really a shame because it does hamper some critical elements of this investigation. >> does that tell you that whomever was responsible had to ...

>> reporter: patience. >> yes, patience. and patience with this problem. >> reporter: and the police have also been to the captain zaharie ahmad shahs home. they say that the home has been search and the source close to the family says they have not been seen since the plane d disappeared. he has a house in this upmarket estate here. he lives here with his wife and a daughter in her 20s. they also have two older sons and a grandchild that friends say he dotes on. the captain is 53 years old with...

Home and found the simulator in the home. >> there was no you tube. this is a guy who just loved it. he was completely and utterly unrelated to flight. this is a man with 18,000 hours of flying experience. he loved to fly. >> moving on, what about the fact that they found no debris of this plane? >> it took them days to find the debris from air france 447. >> this debris field is times bigger. >> you are right. >> if this plane -- its not that remote. its not that remote. if the plane came back ...