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Is such a challenge. satellite images once thought to be debris fields likely just floating garbage. recently a chinese ship in search of the airplane came across trash instead. even sea life cant tell the difference. fish, sea lions, birds, they all ingest this junk, thinking it might be food. >> i hear this talk about there being 300-plus pieces from the aircraft. there are 300,000-plus pieces of trash already there. >> reporter: the indian ocean gyre isnt the only one that exists. there are a...

Blending interest all that. >> reporter: one reason making finding the missing plane such a challenge. recently a chinese ship in search of the airplane came across trash -- trash instead. even sea life cant tell the difference. fish, sea lions, birds, they ingest this junk thinking it might be food. >> i heard about there being 300,000-police pusz in the aircraft. there are -- 300,000-plus pieces in the aircraft. there are more. >> there are two in the pacific and two in the atlantic. they form...

Because of ocean currents and how the storms have been over the last few weeks. several hundred miles away from the bluefin. >> life for us, thank you. well have much more on the search for flight 370 later including a look at other technology that could be used to help find the missing aircraft. find out what this underwater vessel can do that the bluefin cannot. we will look into that coming up. this just in to cnn. news about mount everest. and a tragedy. ten people are missing and may have...

Significant role on the vessel out in the open water. take a look, this vessel weighs some 15,000 tons, and you bring in six to 13 feet that certainly can move this vessel around across this region especially when you consider what it might be in place to, of course the bottom of the ocean currents. ten degrees celsius, or 15 degrees farenheit. and this one going from the southwest to the northeast in this region. but again the major concern on this will be the wave heights. we expect the winds ...

Quicker than it created solutions. >> information from tom foreman. thanks very much. lets get some more now from ocean scientist and author ellen along with former naval oceanographer, van gerley. ellen, you remember the tsunami in japan. eventually some of the debris from the tsunami wound up in the west coast of the united states because of ocean currents and waves and whatever. is it possible some of the wreckage of this plane, if theres wreckage in the indian ocean, will wind up on the au...

All right. searchers for flight 370 are once again looking in an expanded area after more study of ocean currents and other data, the search area is now some 40% larger than it was yesterday. so is this a case of taking two steps back in the search for the plane? lets go now to our panel at this hour. bob francis is the former vice chairman of the ntsb, cnn aviation analyst mary skchiavo represents families in airline disasters. and andrew carr is president of underwater search and survey. okay....

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And ocean currents is really how they judge which area they need to search. of course, the whole target here really is to narrow the area of seabed that they need to search. when the time comes, they eventually will launch the underwater robotic vessel that searches the seabed for debris. that is the key thing. as you said, there have been no confirmed pings that have been picked up in the accuse tick search for five days. a previous ping picked up on thursday, that has been discounted as having...

At the size of the -- a part of the ocean the size of the country of poland really. at that point, they had no idea. they were grasping at satellite images. you could say they sort of lost time there. this is such an unusual search. theres really been nothing like this in aviation history. you kind of cant blame them for saying, hey, look at all that stuff in the ocean, maybe thats the plane. >> uh-huh. in this piece, you talk about these garbage patches. they have a specific name. there are at ...

There and await further information from the authorities. basic compensation is already being paid out. $5,000 a passenger to help with the financial strain on the families. of course, those numbers are expected to go up if there is any confirmation of a crash. fred? >> all right, joe johns, thank you so much. so, will the families get closure any time soon for their loved ones? i want to go to now miles obrien, a cnn aviation analyst. good to see you, miles. >> hello, fred. >> okay, so, you k...