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You start to wonder, can you build the system to exclude human element. >> you heard his comments yesterday. i know you spend a lot of time in the green room with our jeff. where do you stand on the idea of taking out the human factor? >> i think its predictable where im going to stand on that. the airline pilots association reacted appropriately to jeffs statements. the machines that we build are designed by humans and its designed with flaws. we have to operate them as humans. its sexy to be p...

When i see information being given out thats conflicting, thats confusing, oftentimes it goes back to the dynamics in the task force where people are coming up against one another to get that power and to get that control. so in other words, it comes down to the human element. when you add onto that a lot of leaking coming out of a task force, it can mean that the health of that task force is not good. >> mary schiavo, a lot of parsing today of these few words. "good night malaysia 370." of what...

>> i dont believe so. i think theyre still very much focused on the human element here. i dont believe this is cargo or fire-related. as suggested in those scenarios, there were many places closer. the big question, to the end of its range, of its fuel onboard, and crash into the south indian ocean. the fire -- crash into the south indian ocean. the theories dont stack up in that area. >> and to jeff wise, does not being able to locate the pingers mean theyre not in the water,

Batteries. why were the malaysians allowing that to happen and did they know these batteries were there? these are important questions that the malaysians have to stand up and answer, i think. jon: are these questions going to be answered to your satisfaction by the information on the black boxes? >> well, its possible. well have to see what we can learn from them when we find them. but they certainly -- they certainly could hold clues. i dont want to get to a catastrophic incident just yet beca...

Back now to our top story. a u.s. official says investigators have renewed their focus on the pilots of malaysia airlines flight 370. police have searched the homes of both, even confiscating a flight simulator that belonged to the pilot. atika shubert joins us in kuala lumpur. weve heard experts rule out malfunction. naturally that means you go to, you know, the human element here. thats the pilots. what do we know so far about them? >> reporter: what we know is the captain of the flight, ahmed...

Human element if you like, and obviously at this stage, they are focusing very much on the pilot, and the co-pilot and the police are searching the homes of both of to pilots in the last few hours, and taking away plastic bags of evidence, of documents and we dont know what is in the documents in relation, because the police have been quiet about what they are look g f looking for and what i can say and what we do know is that the pilot, the 53-year-old pilot did have a simulator in his home. he...

Of evidence together, and how are they dividing this up or following the trail? what does it look like there? >> well, in the united states, the way we do it, and the way that the national transportation safety board rather does it is that they have a different group, and a human factors group, and look at the things that the human element, and you know, what would humans be doing, and look at the engines group, and the communications group, anded they break up into different groups and here the...

Was a gun to the pilots head he or she could signal that something is going wrong without touching any equipment, and maybe good night was the signal, and so each of the groups take it and break it apart, and they each bring the expertise for ward and that is how we solve almost every disaster that we have had. >> all right. we hope that there is that kind of cooperation going on now, with so many countries involved now, and thank you, mary ski yaw voe s and chad myers knows the planet better th...

>> and correct me if im wrong, as a result of this new development, the likelihood that there was a catastrophic mechanical error as opposed to some human getting involved and doing this, the likelihood of mechanical problem has dimmed. >> thats right. the mechanical structural has reduced and human increased. >> so where does that leave the investigation now, tom? youve led these investigations in the past. i know there is cooperation with the malaysians but there are a lot of questions out the...

Failure to you or some human development, whether terrorist, hijacking, a pilot suicide desire, something along those lines? >> that sort of human element. the likelihood of a failure like this is extremely remote. the airplane has redundant transponders, multiple means of communication, data link and different kinds of radios. and there was no communication. so the mechanical failure here is probably not likely. >> take us inside the investigation, tom. i know the fbi is already involved, ntsb ...