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Days that the search will continue but there is a caveat around that that of course being this priority search zone that is currently being scoured. 23,000 square miles in the southern indian ocean, 1,000 nautical miles off western australia. they are more than 40% through that area using four ships, sonar equipment. the terrain, as we know extremely challenging. were talking about underwater mountains, volcanos trenches 4,000 meters deep. the concern, as you have referenced is that the families...

Phyllis sortor was captured where boko haram does not operate. they wanted a ransom of more than $300,000. u.s. officials wont comment on the release but say negotiations were involved. well it still seems impossible that a plane carrying 239 people vanished, but it did. and its been a year since mh 370 disappeared and what happened to it remains a complete mystery. as suzanne malveaux reports, the search goes on. >> reporter: one year later and still nothing. the search team still insists the...

Ocean floor, a location they say satellite data points to. above the waters surface, search crews are still weathering cyclones and 50 foot waves. below, mountains, trenches and volcanos make up the treacherous terrain. 40% of the priority search zone has been covered but no wreckage recovered. and with no real clues as to what happened to the boeing 777 after it lost radar contact less than an hour into the flight which took off from kuala lumpur theories abound. a recent "new york times" repor...

Are there signs ofifier or explosive residue, and what about the barnacles? will they provide a clue about the ocean path the debris might have traveled? >> it might be that theyre carefully looking at what kind of species of barnacles they are, we can get a clue of where this piece of debris has been passed. >> oceanographers believe the debris could have been carried thousands of miles by the counterclockwise movement of the indian ocean, but coordinators still believe it likely wept down in t...