and flight data recorders that could unlock the mystery. new momentum for the idea to avoid having to recover black boxes. cnn has learned malaysian authorities recommended to international regulators that commercial aircraft should be tracked in real-time. is it time for that? are these obsolete? i feel a few people today in the world after the malaysian air crash who wouldn t say yes. this is old technology. reporter: now the ntsb is reviewing new technology for airliners to live stream flight data back to the ground as they fly. one challenge, the ntsb sees too many planes transmitting too much information. you only can have so much bandwidth, so much ability to receive data, transmit data, so you re looking for what is the most important information. reporter: but two canadian companies have developed real-time streaming that bounces off satellites. hardware look like this installed in the plane. as the jet is flying on the right, the operators on the
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ukraine. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. a potential lead in the search for flight 370. latest developments. australian authorities are looking into what they call an object of interest, a piece of sheet metal studded with rivets picked up on the coast about 1,000 miles from the search zone. stormy weather slows the aerial search for debris but the underwater hunt continues. bluefin-21 surveyed 80% of the search area and authority are considering bringing in more assets to expand that search. our analysts are standing by here in the situation room. our correspondents are standing by around the world bringing you the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver on the hunt for flight 370. the ukrain crisis and the south korean ferry disaster. let s begin, though, with michael holmes, the very latest in perth, australia. michael? reporter: wolf, after weeks of frustration, a development,
of facts submitted to the international civil aviation organization. i have not made a decision yet whether to release it to the media or the public. reporter: as the search continues, australia s prime minister says investigators will not give up. we haven t found anything yet in the area that we re searching, but the point i make is that australia will not rest until we have done everything we humanly can to get to the bottom of this mystery. and based on their current calculations, investigators say they have a number of search areas to explore. like expanding the search from where they are now or shifting to another area where a ping was detected. wolf? i want to continue this conversation. pamela brown is here along with our cnn aviation analyst, peter goles, tom fuentes and jeffrey thomas, the editor in chief of
but, you know, in the vacuum of real information, there s always going to be an element of doubt. there certainly is. geoffrey, thomas, thanks very much. pam, tom, peter, guys, thanks very much to you as well. another major story we re working here in the situation room right now. sources telling cnn saudi arabia is conducting dna tests on a body that could be that of the notorious militant known as the bombmaker, the man behind some of al qaeda s most disturbing explosives. was ibrahim al nasiri among dozens of militants in yemen? i spoke about that earlier today with the chairman of the house intelligence committee, congressman mike rogers. i think it s prudent to be cautious. we ll know the right answer, if this is, in fact, al seri, this is a big moment in disrupting al qaeda in the arabian peninsula operations of which we know specifically are targeted to the
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