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From the pilot or anything that would indicate that. but what they do have is what they say is a lot of circumstantial evidence that who else could have done it. they're focusing on him. >> miles, you're a pilot. what do you think about all this? >> i think that it sounds like they have a hunch. they have a strong hunch. and the fact that the captain would be at the top of the list and they're homing in on it to me frankably isn't much of a news flash. we've been talking about that for a long time. what we see is a lot of evidence of deliberate act, those two separate turns that to curd after ...

Investigators to blame deceased pilots. so there's no evidence. there is no evidence. we can't rule it out. certainly high on the list of possibilities that the flight crew had something to do with this. but there's some other explanations that fit here. for a law enforcement official in malaysia to claim the 27-year-old first officer was incapable of doing this, he has no expertise in this. he just came out of his initial operating experience. he was probably as well schooled and well trained as anybody on that 777 at that time. so, that was certainly a maneuver that could have been done by t...

Seat, the relief first officer who was sitting in the jump seat, and the relief captain who was sitting in the cabin. so first i'm going to talk about the pilot flying. the pilot in the left seat. he reported to our investigators that he had 9700 hours of total flight time. he had about 5,000 hours as pilot in command. this was his initial operating experience in the 777. to complete initial operating experience for asiana, he's required to have 20 flights and 60 flight hours. he had ten legs -- he had completed ten legs. and about 35 hours flying the

Appropriately. >> reporter: a big issue here, the pilot that was at the controls was very experienced on 747s, a huge plane, a long-haul plane, but not so experienced on 777s. how different are those cockpits, both made by boeing, but how different are those planes? >> the aircraft are both in the boeing family. the 777 will require the pilot to take some specific training, and so when we look at that transition training for him, we'll want to understand that. we'll want to understand how different, not just the 74, but other cockpits that he flew. what his experience was in those, what his ex...

And now what happened just moments before the crash? new details tonight from the ntsb. federal investigators interviewed the asiana flight crew today and those interviews included the pilot who was actually physically it at the controls when flight 214 hit the sea wall at san francisco's airport. according to national transportation safety board's chairwoman deborah hersman, the flying pilot was a veteran. he it did have about 10,000 hours of flight time but he was still in their initial operating experience when it came to the 777 on which they're now saying he had flown about 35 hours. that...