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Official tells cnn that flight 370 may have been flown on purpose. >> this comes from new analysis of radar data that shows the plane flew north of indonesia. heres a look at the map here. north of indonesia and around indonesian air space after it made that mysterious left turn and flew across the malaysian peninsula. our source said that investigators reached this conclusion after reviewing trap data from neighboring countries. >> on to our second big development a navy british vessel is rushi...

Conclusion. thats why we need "hms echo" and the australian defense vessel "ocean shield" to come to the location. they have special equipment to help us make the judgment whether there is anything down there. but i think that the fact that weve had two detections, two acoustic events in that location, provides some promise which requires a full investigation of the location. okay -- >> just to verify the two detections in the area, [ inaudible question ]. >> yeah, okay.

The high probability area, yes. second thing is, in terms of how long it will take the two ships to get there, "hms echo" is closer. she will get there at i would think fairly quickly. ill take advice from commodore leibby. but in terms of the "ocean shield" she is in the process of exploiting another acoustic event, which we need to look at to determine if theres anything in that. so this is a pain-staking process. and if we get any lead whatsoever, we investigate it and if it is significant, w...

In an accurate manner to the families. >> absolutely. the chinese do have the most assets in the search. but we do know that the "hms echo" is headed to this area to try to confirm what they heard. what is remarkable about this development has to be that this came in the ninth hour of thinking that time was running out if it had not run out to hear anything. >> well if it is verified it will be a stroke of luck. the batteries are supposed to time out today. they are noun known to work for longer...

Ocean, and sometimes the acoustic equipment can rebound echo if you like, and all sorts of issues around that. peter, would you like to say anything more? >> just in term of the timing, i believe hms echo is approximately 14 hours from that position and as air chief just mentioned ocean shield it is itself investigating another acoustic detect shes made and once shes completed that activity, if its decided to move her down and that proves to be not the beacon up there. it will be approximately 2...

How seriously do authorities take these reports? >> reporter: well, i think right now the right answer to that would be theyre working to gain an understanding of this pe technology, until they have thatful understanding they cant assess what their level of confidence is. this is in an interesting area. right smack-dab in the middle of this newly refined search zone right on this arc that weve shown you where the satellite data seems to indicate that this plane may have gone down. so clearly sig...

Detection. so that is why "hms echo" and "australian defense vessel ocean shield" which has special equipment which will be useful in these circumstances are proceeding to the location of the chinese ship. now all the data this becomes available to the authorities is obviously looked at very closely. but at the moment, at the moment, the data we have does not provide a means of verification. we have to -- we have to do further investigation on the site itself. and that is why all of these resour...

So we obviously have to investigate it fully and we will do that and we will let you know at the completion of the process what the outcome is. i mean, were not going to hide anything from any of you. >> if i can ask you, how long do you believe it will take for the hms echo and ocean shield to be to get in position and investigate this further and is this location within that southern sector that youve now defined as being a more credible lead as to when the flight went down? >> yes. in answer ...

In 2009 it passed right over the box from flight 447 in the atlantic. in that case the pinger locater failed to find the pinger. they said thats because the pinger had broken off from the black box. it might have been damaged. three other cases success, egypt air crash in the atlantic in 1999 and air crash of adam air jet off indonesia. the black boxes were found by search areas were small. malaysia air is the fifth attempt and still a long shot. >> we have nothing to use. its a better shot on t...

There. youll have to correct me if im wrong. the haixun that found -- the chinese ship thats a very sophisticated ship with a lot of sophisticated technology. not necessarily what theyve shown us by video. it was one that depicted these pings. also the ocean shield that is about 24 hours away. the hms echo, another ship that is now there as matthew just reported a couple hours on site. and theres also a hms tireless. the nuclear submarine. we dont exactly know where it is, do we? >> yeah. were n...