Dropping Uoys News Today

Is very different. it wasnt done by the towed locator, the ping locator behind ocean shield. this was dropped by an aircraft. its one of the sonabuoys thats been put into the water and has managed to give a signal. now, what we know is the frequencys in the right area. they dont believe its of natural origin. and they believe it is a mechanical. but they havent given us any details. for example, we dont know what the frequency is, we dont know what the repetition rate is. we dont know anything l...

Yes, that says five people have heard it, five people have confirmed its the captain. the circumstances under which that was said, of course, remain completely unknown. and one crucial point, who was the pilot flying? was it the first officer? or was it the captain? because whoever wasnt the pilot flying does the radios. >> why is it significant, though, who said the final good night? >> its not significant in one sense, yet its totally significant because we know after that malaysian airline 37...

Builder. >> the fact that its picked up by a sonabuoy which is probably less well equipped to detect that signal than the pinger locator, that would indicate that, perhaps, it is still a pretty strong signal. >> reporter: the acoustic data is being analyzed, but the search coordinator says its potentially from a manmade source. like a flight data recorder. an underwater listening device is attached to the buoy. an antenna relays what its hearing to the aircraft. the sensors are deployed at least...

Disappeared, were learning malaysian air force search aircraft were dispatched soon after the airline reported its plane missing. malaysian sources told cnn. headed for the strait of malacca and south china sea. authorities had initially focused their search on the china sea. it took off before authorities corroborated data indicating the plane turned suddenly westward from its original course. the malaysian government denied in a tweet that any malaysian air force aircraft were scrambled. >> im...