Malaysia has asked Australia to try and recover some of the 122 objects spotted floating in the Indian Ocean to confirm if they are from missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.  This comes as a high-ranking Malaysian police official told an American newspaper that the pilot of the plane is believed to be solely responsible for the flight being taken hundreds of miles off course.

The official told USA Today that investigators are questioning relatives of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah to gain insight abut his actions leading up to the 8 March flight.  But as soon as USA Today released that report, CNN’s experts say a different official said that “no derogatory information” has been developed on pilot Shah.  The fact is, there is a lot of extrapolating going on with no physical evidence.  For every theory, there’s a counter argument.

A French satellite scanning the Indian Ocean for remnants of a missing jetliner found a possible debris field containing 122 objects scattered throughout a 400 square kilometer area 1588 from Perth. But the images were taken on Sunday, and rough weather in the “Roaring Forties” may have scattered the objects even further out.  Airbus Defense and Space gave the information to the Malaysians yesterday, and Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein called it “the most credible lead that we have.” 

And there’s a cold reality coming to light about the US Navy “Black Box Detector” that so many are putting their hopes on.  It needs to be towed underwater behind a ship traveling barely faster than a person walking on land.  That means it simply is not going to be able to search large areas very quickly.