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Abandoning the ship. we have heard from some of the senior crew members, two 1st officers, a chief engineer and one of the 2nd officers was speaking outside a courtroom as they were charged today, describing how this ship had a history of not being able to right itself very easily or very well. they also described how the ship had gone through some extensions. they were asked whether these were legal. the crews said that they didn t know, but the underlying theme of what they were saying was that this ship had problems, and they said when they were steering it on wednesday, when it capsized, that it turned very quickly. no explanation for this so far. and out at sea, the divers focusing on the rescue, rather than investigating the ship to see what they can discover that might lead to a better understanding of what happened. at sea, the focus very much the rescue, but on land, we re beginning to learn those details from those senior crew members. john? nic robertson in jindo, south ....
Structures like the white house, the eiffel tower? big questions. again, no answers this morning. as for the men at the control of that plane, the pilot, the co-pilot, they are still part of the focus of this investigation. 53-year-old pilot, a 27-year-old 1st officer are being closely looked at to see if there is any reason, any reason at all they might have decided to do something to take this plane off course, some intentional action. our saima mohsin is live in kuala lumpur. she has been following the investigation into these pilots. what do we know this morning, saima? reporter: well, so far, john, i ve been speaking to members of the political party, the people s justice party, that captain zaharie was, i m told by a friend of his, a silent member of. i ve just spoken to a politician from that party who says, look, he was a member of the party, yes. he came to our events. he was socially active, too. ....
Officials finally admitted the jet was flying for many hours after its crew last talked to air traffic controllers, and its turn off course seems to be deliberate. so, authorities are now looking into every passenger on that plane and the flight crew, a 53-year-old captain and his 27-year-old 1st officer. both their homes were searched this weekend. let s bring in jim clancy live in kuala lumpur with the very latest. jim, what can you tell us this morning? reporter: well, we re waiting. we ve got about one hour to go until we re expecting to hear from malaysian officials once again, see if there s any update. unfortunately, we know that it s unlikely they re going to have anything to tell us, because if they really had a development, we would have been called into the briefing room just behind me at any other time of the day. instead, we are probably going to hear more about the expanding search, about the 26 countries that are involved, about all of the orion aircraft that have been ....