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Example -- that may have acted on that floating debris so we can narrow down the search area on the ocean floor to find the main body of the wreckage. once we find that, then we can go about locating and recovering the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. >> once we do find that main body of the wreckage and even some of the ancillary pieces of debris, what can we learn from that about what actually happened on board that flight to eventually bring it down in the ocean? >> well, ...

The southern part of the indian ocean is already known as an inhospitable place, winds of more than 40 miles an hour are commonplace. how is weather factoring in right now. chad is back, he knows weather well, director of research of george aquarium. great youre at the wall there. can you walk us through the forces convening in that tiny area of world they are searching now. >> certainly this is one deep ocean. theres not a lot of topography. you talk about the spreading here of the ridge, mid-a...

Saying the search for two possible large objects that could be from flight 370. the search ending for the day. the objects picked up by satellite. that was sunday. they were just made public our time in the u.s. four military search planes were looking 1,500 miles off the coast of australia. poor visibility has slowed the efforts to find the objects. a norwegian ship has reached the area. visibility is said to be low and that is deep deep ocean. heather: 100 men, women and children who are suspe...

Welcome back to "new day." this may be the biggest lead so far in the search for missing flight 370. there are the images. the satellite images showing two objects spotted in the southern indian ocean. quite a way from perth, australia, about 1500 miles into the deep ocean. for more about what this might mean for the investigation, we want to bring back in david sossi, author of "why planes crash." we also bring in a 777 pilot. good to have with you us. its been part of this ever evolving story....

Cargo that fell off a ship or something like the tsunami wreckage that piled up. unless something like that happened, it wouldnt be typical to see a piece of debris that large. were talking about 75 feet. thats the concern. of course something that large. if it was a plane, would it have sunk? these are the things we talk about. two and a half miles deep ocean depth. thats a huge concern. currents in the region, we keep talking about the roaring 40s. what is that? latitude between 40 and 50 degr...

That at least the malaysians are taking this seriously, theyre scrambling ships, sending helicopters in, they want to be part of the search? >> i think thats absolutely clear. the australians have been very clear about this, they feel its credible new information. those two words, i think, have had some impact. they are hoping this is indeed something to do with mh 370, but they always put the caveat in that theyre going to be hard to find. its a vast and deep ocean. and number two, they cannot ...

Lead in the search areas closest to their countries. on air and surface assets, ive spoken to almost all asean leaders to request further support, including assets with deep ocean surveillance detection capabilities. we also asked our international partners who have assisted as before to take another look at their primary radar data. in the northern corridor, we have divided the search area into seven quadrants. each of the seven quadrants is 400 nautical miles by 400 nautical miles, or 160,000 ...

Now believe came from the copilot? also the "new york times" is reporting that someone entered in that left turn into the flight management system. that is the left turn that laborrian radar picked up as this thing began to head to the west. as far as the search area is concerned, were still talking about that big arc, so big that the northern boundary of it, that is being searched by china and kazakhstan and to the south, that part of the search is being carried out by australia. this goes deep...

[ speaking foreign language ] >> all right, were going to keep following this news conference for you, bring you any new details that come out of it. let me summarize what weve learned. the search area for flight 370 has expanded to 2.24 million square nautical miles. that is a very, very large search area. they outlined how so many countries are now involved with that search, both on land, on sea, and now under water. theyve called in some deep ocean surveillance resources to look into what may...

The indian ocean, deep into the indian ocean. australia is handling that part of the search. this morning malaysian officials asked for some assistance in the deep waters there. >> on air and surface access, ive spoken to almost all leaders to request further support including access with deep ocean [inaudible] detection capability. >> remember, they are kind of racing against the clock here because theyre trying to find the black box, the cockpit voice recorder and cockpit dataç recorder. tho...