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Search operation. they have been focusing on the flight path the plane was intended to take. they have been looking, expanding, expanding the search zone, because they found absolutely nothing, a few false leads, but nothing else in the area where the plane should have gone down according to its flight path. so theyre now focusing on this other area. just one more thing, wolf, is that this does tie in with earlier reports where the malaysian air force has been very cagey, saying that we believe ...

The pilot did during the final moments of that flight. >> hold on for a moment. because i want the you to react to this next report. andrew stevens is joining us now, correspondent in kuala lumpur in malaysia. up date our viewers, andrew, what were learning precisely, and what it may suggest. >> reporter: well, were hearing, wolf, now the last reported position, last position the plane was seen, was over a small island in the strait of malacca. this is on the subpoena sit side of the country of ...

N. senator dianne feinstein accusing the cia of searching and removing documents from a computer that the cia used to probe an interrogation program. she added that she has grave concerns, cia agents violated the constitution. well have more from athena jones. she is digging up more information on that. vanished without a trace. this morning, investigators are still trying to figure out what happened to malaysia airline flight 370. rescue teams have expanded the search beyond the planes flight...

This is what i promised the families. >> reporter: we flew to the malacca straits to the west of malaysia. this isnt the scheduled flight path for the malaysia airline flight, but its a possibility. the search team is taking seriously. in case the plane turned back and lost its way. there are 16 ships surveying this area. thats more than 12,000 nautical square miles. theyre joined in the air by 14 aircraft. and thats just the area to the west of malaysia. there are more than 30 aircraft and more...

This is cnn breaking news. >> and the breaking news, some more mysterious information just coming into cnn from the malaysian air force. the malaysian air force says it has now traced the last travel of malaysia airlines flight 370 to a very small island in the straits of malacca, according to the senior malaysian air force official. the official declined to be named, because hes not authorized to speak to the news media. but the official says that about 2:40 a.m. local time, the civilian and mi...

That after the plane left the eastern coast of malaysia, it turned around and headed in the opposite direction. that raises an entire raft of questions, not least, how could it fly back over the entire malaysian peninsula and air traffic control not notice? how could the pilots not get information? how could the plane not be telegraphing information every ten minutes about the change of course? this would have been a plane flying a flight path in direction contradiction to its filed path? thats ...

Phone rings. flying in the wrong direction, here are the latest developments. according to a radar data flight 370 inexplicably veered from its flight path, essentially flying for another hour before the contact was lost. the identifying transponder codes stopped sending which could mean a catastrophic power loss or somebody turned them off our correspondents will bring you the kind of coverage that cnn can deliver. we bring you to kuala lumpur. andrew, why did it take four days to find this cri...

However, its always, always evidence that there will be a primary radar return. so its really very, very difficult to disappear from radar unless you go to a very low altitude, which is what the early reports show in this case. now, the 777 has an impeccable record with redundant systems. however, it is a machine and all machines have single points of failure and a history of failure. in the case of the 777, just one week ago, there was the smell of smoke in the cockpit in the british airways fl...

Looking beyond malaysian airlines flight path. as the search enters its fourth day -- >> these are the areas were going to search. >> -- officials are including the strait of malacca. radar data leading some to believe the flight may have reversed course to return to malaysia in its final moments. also saying pilots from hong kong spotted large, solid debris in the waters off vietnam. >> we have not received any confirmation or verification of the debris that theyre from the aircraft or not. >> ...

Philippines have joined the search. malaysian authorities said today that, an oil slick found over the weekend initially believed to be the plane is not related to the crash. more than 72 hours after the plane first disappeared new details may be emerging relate together flight path. the plane may have turned around just before contact with air traffic control was lost. and today, malaysia expanded the search area to include land in the western part of the country, which is a mix of mountainous ...