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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? >> that's the big question. we have to ask. the plane is now in somebody's court. obviously it was taken someplace. it may have hit the water. it may be at some strip somewhere. i don't know how you get that a...

Significant aviation experience. that leads investigators to the two pilots as possible suspects. one thing was made very clear at this morning's 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. was a self-con fezzed air geek. he built a flight simulator at his home. this is now of major inter...

Is it present there? so they'd be looking for that type of information. >> kind of curious that we don't 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. it's inexplicable why it's taking so long and it's really a shame because it does hamper some critical elements of this investigation. >> does that tell you that whomever was responsible had to have extensive flying experience? >> well it's clear that the airport was diverted intentionall...

>> reporter: patience. >> yes, patience. and patience with this problem. >> reporter: and the police have also been to the captain zaharie ahmad shah's 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 more than 18,000 hours of flying experience. >> captain zawahiri is a very social person. he loves...

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 -- it's not that remote. it's not that remote. if the plane came back across and did come down to malaysia, is it somewhere there? >> how would someone have not seen a ...