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Air space, if you will, could that have been literally flying under radar? >> well, its a little confusing to me, wolf, because the terrain in malaysia offers up several peaks at about 7,000 feet above sea level. so if in fact he was flying at 4,000 feet above sea level, its very likely he would have encountered what we call cumulus granite, which is what we call it in the pilot business which is a mountain. so an altitude above ground or above sea level, its 7,000 feet, plus 4,000, which puts u...

>> wolf, teams are stretching the boundaries of this technology and they have done it again. the latest signal came from something designed for maritime combat, not search and recovery. they are dropped out of a plane and descend below the surface, open up their payload and hunt for their target. these are not bombs or torpedos, they are called zosonobuoys. >> they deploy a hydrophone. >> a source tells cnn that sonobuoys were dropped from an australian pc-3 orion plane. >> it has saltwater swit...

Right. they did find some suspicious objects that were spotted from the air as ships went over, picked it up but not related to the crash at all. there were a number of storms in recent weeks over that area where the plane is thought to have gone down and they have done all of these drift patterns and worked out the movement of the ocean and thats why those ships are all concentrated about 3 or 400 miles to the west of where they are looking for the wreckage because thats where they think ne deb...

Much smaller but its still off awfully big. >> what would you say, miles? >> i agree with them. lets hope that it helps locate the aircraft much more quickly. >> peter, barbara starr reported that the u.s. was sending a supply ship to the area to help the other searchers looking for some sort of debris from this plane. what do you make of the fact that they are bringing a significant supply ship in? it seems to suggest that they are going to be there for a while. >> oh, i think they are and i th...

That cou this is a crucial piece of equipment that the u.s. navy has supplied at just the right time and i think its the perfect way that the u.s. navy can contribute at this point. >> because they are going to need it. ive heard anything, tom, and let me get you into this conversation. anything from days, weeks, maybe even months, even if they -- if these pings are the real thing to actually go down there and find one or two of those black boxes. >> thats right, wolf. i hope they are bringing t...

Drop. we dont know if it exactly went around, that it didnt cross into indonesia air space. so lets say that it went around indonesia. these theories are being made on information that we dont have, not on positive information that we do. that would mean if the theory isnt accurate, who is saying what, taking the plane up or down or side ways becomes invalid. we dont know for a fact that that is what happened. >> were also getting information, rene, as you know -- and this is 35 days or so into ...

This action happened before data was corroborated that the plane made the westward turn. that being said, we know that the transportation ministry sent out a tweet denying. again, this is information coming from the source that the jet was scrambled over the straits of malacca in the short time after this flight was reported missing. wolf? >> thank you. evan, youve been talking to your law enforcement sources. what are they saying to you about their anxiety right now? especially they are so dete...

Back-channel source information thats not been released officially from the government. so im suspect or skeptical like we all are about the whole thing and then im also skeptical, then, because once you accept this youre saying the plane did this, it went down, it was avoiding indonesia. they are attributing all kinds of motive to the pilot when we dont even know if the front end is true in the first place. >> im going to have all of you stand by. weve got a lot more to assess coming up this ho...

One point maybe to try to evade radar. what do we know about this? >> wolf, the investigators here in the u.s. are focused on trying to get as much information as they can about the people that were on the plane, obviously the two pilots they are very much interested in. they are not sure what to make about the change in the altitude. they dont know if its definitive. its certainly not going to be definitive until we can get some data from the wreckage at the bottom of the indian ocean and then ...

Explanation of what happened after the boeing 777 turned west and crossed over the malaysian peninsula. malaysian sources tell cnn the plane disappeared from military radar for about 120 nautical miles, indicating that it might have dipped to an altitude between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. and wolf, a dozen planes and a dozen ships will again be scouring the ocean. the "ocean shield," the vessel that has been towing the ping locator has been joined by a british naval ship in the area where the pings w...