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Miles away from the location of the cell phone tower that picked up this cell phone. so clearly it does seem there is more to learn about the altitude of the aircraft as it passed over the malaysian peninsula, erin. >> all right, nic robertson, thank you very much. i want to bring in our aviation analyst, along with abc world news aviation analyst, john nantz. thanks to all of you. john, what do you make of this? obviously, this is after the transponder is turned off, after the plane is well off...

Moment. >> reporter: when the plane first went missing, authorities said millions of cell phone records were searched, looking for evidence that calls had been made from the plane, but turned up nothing. still, it only adds to the evidence that the plane turned westward from its planned paddle and that the plane was likely falling low enough for a cell tower to pick up the signal. >> it does make they think that it was perhaps lower than the 35,000 feet speculated because it did make a connectio...

Im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." were following multiple, critical new developments in the search for flight 370, now missing for five weeks. among the latest developments, searchers are searching the ocean with the bluefin-21. with daylight breaking in the area, the air search is about to resume. also, cnn has now learned that the first officers cell phone was on around the time the plane vanished. experts call that unusual. the phone was detected searching for a service by a m...

>> youve worked with them, worked with them when you were at the fbi, you still have your contacts over there. they are really slow in releasing these details. sometimes they come out way, way after the fact why does that happen? why cant they be completely transparent and share the details with all of us? >> this part of the case, thats just the way they are over there. they are not transparent and when theyve worked with another agency or told other people about what they were looking at. so t...

Anyone else on the plane. we know investigators have been looking through the phone records from the very beginning of the investigation. so theres no evidence, according to sources, that a phone call was made. but it is interesting to note that the fact that that cell tower made a connection with the co-pilots phone is an indication that the phone was on. it reaffirms what weve been reporting that that plane made the westward turn to the straits of malacca and that it was likely flying at a low...

Developments in the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight 370. first, entering a crucial new phase in the search for the 777. an american underwater drone known as the bluefin is right now more than 14,000 feet below the surface. its been down there for about 12 hours mapping a small section of the south indian ocean. the question is, what will we see when it rises? investigators also awaiting test results from an oil slick. the slick was detected sunday night about 3.4 miles downwind from ...

I want to reiterate that this was information, again, coming from the malaysians. they could be privy to other information that u.s. investigators dont know about but at this time it was believed that the co-pilots phone is the only one that connected with that tower. >> because you know and all of us know who fly -- peter let me go to you, whenever they say turn off your cell phones, most people do that but a lot of people dont for whatever reason. its really change that only one cell phone was...

Cell phone on in the cockpit. its never supposed to be on at all. its part of every check list that im familiar with. >> reporter: sources say that malaysian authorities told the u.s. that a cell tower in penang, malaysia, roughly 200 miles from where the plane turned around, picked up a ping from fariqs cell phone. he could have tried to do something with the phone. we dont know. >> the interesting thing about that is no other phone was connected to it. its just specifically his cell phone. >> ...

A u.s. official tells cnn that a cell phone tower may have actually detected the co-pilots cell phone around the time of disappearance. the official says there is no indication that the co-pilot was making a call but this could mean -- could mean that the plane was flying low enough to obtain a signal from a cell tower. well explore that possibility with pamela brown. at the same time, investigators on australians "ocean shield" search are waiting to find out if a sample taken from an oil slick ...

Banfield. it is monday, april 14th. we begin with breaking news right off the top. a missing malaysian airliner 370, news about the co-pilots cell phone and the possibility that it was on midair. u.s. officials with firsthand knowledge of the investigation say the malaysian officials have shared data with u.s. investigators including a cell tower near panang, 250 miles away from where the transponder stopped working detected the co-pilots cell phone searching for service. there is no evidence an...