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Required a return? >> when radar data showed this plane was making a u-turn, they then started focusing on the strait of ma lack ka and the indian ocean and youre talking about a massive area. >> more teams join the search. the u.s. provides a surveillance plane and two destroyers equipped with night vision capableties. china, home to 154 of the missing passengers, sends the largest rescue fleet in its naval history. >> translator: as long as theres a glimmer of hope, we will not stop searching ...

Have an unusually high degree commitment to this greater than you would expect given where they are on the globe. >> china clearly has an intense interest in the search operation. i believe they had 154 people on board the aircraft. and -- as we know from media reporting, the chinese relatives and families are desperately concerned with the progress of this search. china has offered the two aircraft. there are a number of warships on the way to the area. the chinese polar research and supply shi...

I can describe the atmosphere in the room. it was packed. keep in mind, 154 of these people on that airline was from china. so these are their family members. there were about 400, 500 people in this room. they were all very serious, quiet, very focused on the presentation, this power point presentation that was given to them about the flight and also very focused on asking very technical, specific, pointed questions. so finally theyre getting some answers but i also sensed, natalie, that there ...

Later today. two japanese aircraft will be arriving on sunday and a flotilla of ships coming from china is still on its way. and of the passengers on the flight, 154 were from china. joining me now, we have richard gillespie with us tonight, executive director of tiger, the international group for recovery. mr. gillespie, you first, is there anything in aviation history that compares to what the world is witnessing right now? >> oh, yes, 1937, amelia earhardt disappeared in an incident that had ...

Now saying that it has ruled out the possibility that any of its citizens on the plane were responsible for its disappearance. how can they make such a sweeping statement? >> reporter: yeah, thats right, they did say that today, and that came from the chinese ambassador to malaysia. he said that the central government has already checked out the backgrounds of the 154 chinese citizens on board, and there was no evidence of any sort of link to terrorism or any sort of link to sabotage. now, you a...

Flight simulator from the captains home to see if he practices taking down the plane. background checks of the 154 chinese nationals on board revealed no suspicious ties. for the relatives of those passengers the men and women and children who spent another day in limbo. their patience for the conflicting reports has begun to deteriorate and turn into outright anger and with reason. todays thailand military admitted its radar detected a plane possibly flight 370 around 1:28 a.m. the night it dis...

Can you tell us about that? >> reporter: yeah, thats right. they have announced today, the foreign ministry here in china, that they have strengthened the resources. now they have ten ships out there, several planes and 21 satellites involved. some of these satellites are meant to enhance the images that theyve been getting. so, the chinese foreign ministry announcing that because 154 of these passengers on the plane are chinese citizens, and they are looking at the northern corridor. much of th...

Its mind boggling to imagine there are so many countries searching for this plane and we have not seen one single clue, not one piece of wreckage. the controversy over how malaysia has handled this is big news in china. 154 of the 239 people are chinese nationals. china is deploying a do you the lights in search of this plane. them say they have found no link to terrorism among their citizens on that flight. >> reporter: french nationals have arrived in kuala lumpur. but the french are quick to ...

>> reporter: john, thats lack of coordination that we just heard sarah talking about in that interview that has had the families of these 154 chinese citizens so angry and frustrated as well. were going into the tenth day of this mystery, and they shake their heads at the lack of information theyve gotten. now, i was inside the hotel today behind me where many of these families are staying, and we saw them at lunchtime, where the hotel has roped off an area of a restaurant where they were eating...

He probably has a citi thankyou card and gets 2x the points at restaurants. huh the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn 2x the points on dining out, with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards back now to our coverage of flight 370. officials are taking a closer look at the cockpit, who was in it. as they do, waiting for any kind of news, its excruciating for family and friends of those on board. 154 of them were chinese nationals. earlier things got ugly at a daily briefing in beijing...