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Square kilometers and the data from the latest mission is being analyzed. the oil sample collected by ocean shield has arrived in perth and is being analyzed, as well. we will bring you the results as soon as they become available. back now with my panel of experts to answer your questions. jeff wise, we have a question from susan. it says why not take one search plane and research the flight path. maybe they would spot path. you know you retrace your own steps when you lose something, just a th...

A marathon pace, its going to be long, slower and there may be a much different equipment set thats brought in. >> mike deane, adiplomatic man, rob. suggesting, australia, weve got tools, ask us and well bring them to you. what do you think? >> i think if it goes beyond this phase, i think if these potential pinger locations pan out to be inaccurate or nonexistent, then the next phase is more broad scale search along the southern end of the original calculated aircraft track. so that would mean ...

Told cnn is that, no, he wasnt in fact trying to make a call, just that his phone was picked up on that handshake as soon as they find a tower to talk to. >> what kind of information could investigators get, if they do determine that there were, i dont know, if ping is the right word, but passenger cell phones had communicated with towers? >> it would definitely tell us that either the passengers left their phones on, or that the passengers were trying to turn their phones on to communicate. in ...

Quote, desperate call from on board the flight in mid-air. joining us from the latest is grn roger maynard. what you can tell me about this phone call? who discovered it? how come we are just learning about it now. >> intriguing story first reported by the new straight times in malaysia over the weekend. its, quote, unnamed sources who claim the co-pilot, made a call on his cell phone shortly after mh 370 turned back from its scheduled flight path. but the call ended abruptly after contact was e...

More suggestions that precious days were wasted in the early days, due in part on the malaysian end. randi kaye has more on that later, and the malaysian officials say they tracked them on the radar after it turned west from the peninsula but then delayed sharing it with the government authorities. reuters saying they didnt saying everything they knew about the westward flight path until days later and it took an order from the prime minister to make it happen. as you will recall it took days to...

Malaysia has taken a fair amount of heat for the handling of the investigation. do they have the expertise to handle the data and analyze it if and when the black boxes are recovered? >> it is pretty clear that they do not. they said as much. the thing thats interesting here in this country is, again and again, we have heard people using the word unprecedented. for this country, it is unprecedented while some larger -- the united states, the u.k., australia, have had to deal with air crashes. fo...

Developments you missed overnight. welcome back to "early start." im christine romans. >> im john berman. about 31 minutes past the hour right now. lets get to the latest from australia, as the search zone has narrowed down again in the hunt for flight 370, this a day after cnn learned some truly remarkable, new information about the flight path and its altitude, that coming from malaysian officials. australias prime minister now says he is confident that the signals being heard under water in t...

Just keep doing what theyre doing? >> more of the same, im really getting a little concerned about the battery life. were already on borrowed time. the fact that they have narrowed down where theyre looking for the pings and theyre not getting the pings makes me a little concerned that we may have lost that battery. >> miles, we also heard a different report about lower altitude. the plane going down to a lower altitude, 5,000 or 6,000 feet. i wanted to ask you about that. at those lower altitud...

Is you want to get to the area that youre interested in very, very quickly. you know, scrambling a jet means youre going fast. youre putting it on after burner and youre going after the target. you know, usually its an unidentified object that you see on radar and youre trying to really ascertain what that object is, whether or not that object is a threat and whether or not you need to shoot that object down. and so in this particular case when you see what they did and the fact that it apparent...

Prime minister, saying they know roughly where flight 370s black box is. meantime, cnn is learning more about the final hours of flight 370. sources saying the jets altitude dropped abruptly, down to between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. joining me now at the map to discuss, cnn analyst david soucie. so, david, i really want to get your take on this because this altitude dip is come foundi ico me. lets show the flight path with this big dip, generally in the area where it would happen. so you have the a...