Poseidon Plane News Today

Tell us if you heard any new information about the sounds theyre hearing every 30 minutes or so. >> reporter: so they heard those sounds yesterday for about a four or five-hour period, every 30 minutes a banging sound. later in the day they heard other sounds, they couldnt quite tell what they were. didnt sound like the same banging. they had one poseidon plane, sub hunters that picked up the sounds and a second one dropped buoys, they also heard sounds. they moved ships on the surface and sent ...

Alas can. gao says the wiring and soldering problems it found could cause corrosion later, leaving an interceptor fleet that may not work as intended. >> it says you cant count on the vehicle. if you used for example the kind of sarter or wiring that doesnt eat well you dont know that one will fail at any given time but you know you have a weakness in every single interceptor so you cant count on the reliability. >> reporter: the u.s. missile defense agency which fields the interceptors tells cn...

Search. what can you tell us now? how many planes are up? are they finding anything? >> reporter: nearly all of the planes are up. the first of which may start to approach this area right now, just a short time ago the u.s. navys p-8, poseidon plane, took off, joining the search today. so what theyre doing is out of the ten expected to be taking part in the search, theyre going to actually split the search into two different regions. want to try to cover as much ground as possible, there ray num...

Flying at 5,000 feet, and then dipping to 1,000 feet. if it sees anything on the radar. we will know in about an hours time whether theyve actually seen anything significant. but at the minute, its not good after the end of the second day. >> anything major thats going to be added to the search teams starting when day breaks? >> reporter: well, its a plus and a minus. there will be an australian ship that will be joining the search. there is an indian and chinese vessel also joining. but that u....

Breaking news thisng breaking news this morning on "world news now," in the search for missing malaysia flight 370. objects that could be debris from the plane have been spotted off the coast of australia. >> we have new and credible information that has come to light in relation to the search. >> right now search crews are speeding full steam ahead toward the area hoping to finally put an end to this 12-day mystery. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, everyone. im joh...

Australias prime minister announced two objects possibly related to flight 370 have been spotted on satellite imagery. an aircraft, including a high-tech u.s. navy plane are there now to try to locate them. >> earlier, abc news aviation steven gennart spoke with us on "nightline." >> he offered up interesting perspective and opinions on this latest development. >> dont get radar returns of nothing, so it sounds to me that weve indeed found the wreckage. that theyve been looking in a certain area...

Forensics david was talking about with the pinging down south. so they have been focusing very, very intently on this area. earlier in the day we saw that the australians focused their search area in a very particular way, which to us was a clue they were zeroing in on where they thought the actual impact was. >> the australian officials are saying this is the best lead so far. they just need confirmation of what they are seeing so far, but this imagery that they are seeing is not precise enough...

>> australias prime minister announced two objects have been spotted on satellite imagery and aircraft are on the way to spot them. >> abc news has a team in australia, the closest big city to this search, and nicki battiste is joining us, whats the latest? >> reporter: the latest here on the ground in perth, one of the lieutenant commanders who was in direct touch with the poseidon who sent out the search today. they just arrived to the area within the hour and radar hit a significant size, whi...

Possibly related to the missing plane have been spotted by satellite. >> prime minister tony abbott has announced the discovery and said they have been diverted to the area to try to find the objects. >> two possible objects related to the search have been identified. i can inform the house that australian air force orion has been alerted to attempt to locate the objects. >> an emergency ship in the area has responded and is also on the way to the scene. the australian maritime safety authority ...

Flight. and then the australian rcc will coordinate a recovery of evidence and any debris and go from there. of course, they will be looking for the black box and anything they can find to help piece together what happened. >> nicki, this p8 poseidon is such a high-tech plane, you talk about radar of significant size, educate us a bit, does that mean that radar hits could possibly be debris underneath the water, underneath the surface? are we talking about possible the 78-foot object thats on th...