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As disagreeable as your panel was being, i'm sure they will agree, every single piece you can get from this missing plane will help solve the mystery of what happened or at least it might. >> exactly right. great look at that. thanks so much. with us now, the man who has been leading the search for mh370 for more than a year now, the head of the australian transport safety bureau. thank you for your time. i want to get your take. i know you lead the search. a question on the breaking news tonight of this preliminary assessment coming from u.s. intelligence that suggesting it's likely someone...

Miles o'brien. richard, a lot of news coming in late today. what do you make of this? a u.s. preliminary intelligence assessment someone in the cockpit deliberately steered this plane off course. >> i just hope they didn't spend too long and waste too much time doing it. frankly, from day one, the facts have always been known and have pointed toward that general direction. the malaysian prime minister himself, when he announced the turn back said it was by a deliberate act. there's nothing startling here that for somebody like myself who happens to think you have to have the mechanical issues ...

Parts. so we are not very certain about what's coming. we are hoping for more evidence to appear. >> with this assessment coming out from the u.s. intelligence community that it had to be someone in the cockpit that deliberately steered this plane off course before it disappeared, you know the captain. you worked with him. do you think he's capable of doing something like this deliberately? >> i still believe that our pilots or perhaps captain zaharie himself wouldn't have come to the extent of doing something like that. this is what we have known of captain zaharie. the people that have worke...

That aircraft could have seized control by gaining access to it or stowing away in that compartment. that's one notion of how this aircraft could have been taken off course. >> how vulnerable -- you talk about that hatch. how vulnerable is that hatch? >> it's wide open. it's a very simple thing to open. >> with it -- explain again how much you can control of the plane from getting -- from gaining access there. >> you have the keys to the kingdom there. you can control the plane completely. the plane is a flying computer. that's the server farm. that's the central -- that's the brain of the air...

What really happened on its flight data recorders. >> we cannot be certain of ultimate success in the search for mh-370, but we can be certain that we will spare no effort, that we will not rest until we have done everything we humanly can. >> reporter: who steered the plane offcourse and why? what happened inside the cockpit? where did the aircraft go down and when will we find a trace? there's an abundance of theories colliding with an absence of evidence. after four weeks here, like everyone else, i have only questions and no answers. jim clancy, cnn, kuala lumpur. >> we have learned in jus...