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Malaysian government official and that official tells cnn that flight 370 may have been flown on purpose along a route to avoid radar detection. >> this comes from a new analysis of radar data that shows the plane flew north of indonesia and around indonesian air space after it made the mysterious left turn we were talking about and flew across the malaysian peninsula. >> a naval vessel is rushing to the area where a chinese ship reported picking up twice electronic signals beneath the water the...

Putting in the ocean that detected it. and planes saw white objects in the water 90 kilometers away. no confirmation they are related to the airplane. but they are investigating that. lets go to perth, australia. paula newton was at the news conference where we heard about these developments about two and a half hours ago. and you noticed a little bit of change in the air with this news conference as opposed to ones that we have heard earlier when they made other announcements. >> yes, definitel...

Normal and someone that just seems to be a nice person. a father, a brother, a mother. were not looking for someone here that is going to pop up and everybody looks at him and says, that was a creepy off putting person. i think that becomes important, but, still, a very normal-appearing person would have made mistakes. in my opinion, no question about it. >> were down to the wire with these pingers and how long they may continue to emit a signal. richard quest, we have this other new development...

I would imagine it would take most of today to determine that location where "ocean shields position is. she has 3,000 meters of tow behind her. to turn around and go back over an area of water again it takes time for the ship to reverse course. i wouldnt expect until mid afternoon at the earliest a decision on whether she will relocate. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> absolutely. this is day 30 of the search. the advertised time for the life of the batteries in the beacon are 30 days.

>> we seem to have lost nbcs katy tur on the phone there for us. >> reporter: hey, craig, craig, craig. >> we have you back. i have you. thank you. keep going. >> reporter: im sorry. one more time. so the pulse from the black box, 37.5 kilohertz, gives off that frequency because nothing else in the ocean sounds quite like that and why the chinese hopeful it could be it. a lot of skepticism of experts saying the chinese dont have the technology to find that. thats why hms echo rushed to the scene...

Seriously. thats why today royal australian u.s. assets will deploy to assist in the vicinity where the chinese ship has detected the sounds. australian -- ocean shield are also being directed to join -- ocean shield will be delayed while ahousic noise in the current loefnlcation. in the days, weeks and possible months ahead there maybe leads such as the one i am reporting to you this morning on a regular basis. i would ask you the media to

Right now a british navy survey ship in the area of the indian ocean where a chinese ship detected underwater signals. this could be a lead for flight 370. theres serious concern about the equipment that detected the pulses. here is cnns report. >> reporter: we now know more about the equipment used when the pinging sound was reportedly detected. we spoke to the company that makes it. they tell us divers can use it or it can be used hand-held from the surface like the chinese are doing in this v...

Pings, you have the satellite data and the two seem to converge in the same place. his words were "we must treat this carefully. its important and encouraging." and then he described what "ocean shield" has heard as an important event. that is why "echo" is on the way. it will be there in 14 hours roughly. "ocean shield" will stay where she is to investigate the acoustic event. if that turns out to be nothing, 26 hours or so will be over the chinese pings. so an enormous amount of information co...

Recapping new developments. search planes and ships are heading for an area where chinese searchers have twice detected electronic pulse signals in the owner indian ocean. that word from australian authorities who also say that the australian ship "ocean shield" has picked up acoustic noise as well. heres the announcement made a few hours ago. >> this morning we were contacted by the chinese authorities and advised that haixun 01 had late yesterday afternoon redetected the signals for 90 seconds...

Pings. some promising leads from ocean shield and chinese. i think the important thing of what he said, time and again, is we will investigate every event. weve got a transmission. we must investigate it. >> that was richard after this news conference about four hours ago. now the hms echo is ten hours from the area where the chinese picked up underwater pings so it can investigate further. the most difficult search every in mystery, how australias prime minister describes this race to find flig...