Far. What is intriguing is the location. According to the chinese its within a 20 kilometer or 12 1 2 mile radius of this spot on the map which corresponds closely to the point where controllers lost contact with the airliners radar transponder. We should stress again, this is very preliminary information. However i it may help narrow back down a search effort that grew enormously today. More from pamela brown. Reporter these Satellite Photos released by the chinese punctuate a day of case of and missed messages. Five days into the search investigators are still struggling to locate the missing 777, expanding the search area to 27,000 square nautical miles. The way forward is to be analyzing both the civilian and military data in the of the the east or west. Reporter 12 countries assisting with search operations. But complicating efforts are a string of confusion and conflicting statements by malaysian authorities. Military officials there now appear to be backing off an earlier suggestion that the plane made an abrupt turn to the west less than an hour into the flight. Rerecognizance the Malay Peninsula and ending up in an island in the middle of the malacca strait. Other asian officials doubted this theory. Then the military offered another theory, saying instead an unidentified blip turned up on military radar 200 miles northwest of the city of panang, close together thai island of puket. Why possible . We are trying to corroborate. Reporter contradictory statements like these have dogged the malaysian response, leading to accusations of incompetence at best or deliberately withholding information at worst. Contributing to the confusion, its still unclear at this point whos in command of the investigation, the government, the airline or the military. And appearance that none are sharing potentially Vital Information with each other. Foreign powers most vocally china have criticized the seemingly chaotic response and saying their resources are being underutilized. Vietnam scaled back its efforts claiming they were provided lack of information on where to search. Theories about flight 370s fate continue to swirl. Investigators are not ruling out any possibilities, including catastrophic mechanical failure or even terrorism. Fears the jets transponder were deliberately turned off have spawned new concerns about the pilots. Police said wednesday theyre searching one of the missing pilots homes outside kuala lumpur. Meanwhile, family and friends continue to demand answers and pray for their loved ones, frustrated, angry and unsatisfactoried by the lack of information. When it is not the final closure, i think any ray of hope, even however remote or however improbable, many of these people will still hold onto it. Reporter holding on and hoping their days of waiting in limbo will be over soon. Pamela brown, cnn, washington. A lot to get to tonight now that there seems to be more for searchers to go on. Lets check in first with Cnns David Mckenzie who joins us from beijing. So these satellite images, what can you tell us about snem do we have my dewhy the Chinese Government released them now . Reporter thats a question i want answered. There are two things that trouble me. One is why this was released now. The second is, really why are we seeing these images that werent shared necessarily with the malaysian authorities . They say they took these photographs from satellite, High Definition of these three large objects which were very close to the tracking path when that plane vanished over the sea on saturday. It is now several days later, and this appears to be a significant lead, anderson. These are large objects. They call it quote a potential crash site. So it could help narrow the search as you say that is expanded widely in recent days. It gives some level of hope of closure for the many families here in beijing who have lost scores of loved ones. The size of the debris has raised some questions from aviation experts weve heard from already who say maybe the debris is actually too large given the size of the aircraft. But the chinese, they seem to have been frustrated with the response by the malaysian government. Could the release of these photos somehow be tied to that frustration, forcing the malaysian governments hands somehow . Thats a good point, anderson. Theyve given very pointed statements toward the malaysian government calling this search sometimes chaotic. Theyve also criticized the malaysians and other countries for giving out false leads and giving hope to these families here. So it might be that they waited to release this information until they were absolutely sure its significant. And we should also believe its significant because of that. The chinese are much more deliberate with these issues, so they would have carefully looked at these images and thought about what they could be before they released it out. But again because it was several days after they took these images, its a troubling sign. They have also taken more satellites into that region to look at the whole area to figure out if theres anything that gives any lead to find this plane. Certainly significant on the part we believe of the plane when it vanished. So therell be definitely ships, airplanes, everything going to that area, scouring it from a closer Vantage Point to see if it indeed is this crashed plane that everyone at this point wants to find, particularly the families here in beijing. Were going to talk to a u. S. Navy commander whos involved in the search about those satellite images which they are looking at very closely right now. David mckenzie, thanks. More now on the frustration that we talked about thats been building on the ground as well as the possibility that automated messages from the airliner itself could help locate the plane and make better sense of exactly what went wrong. Jim clancy is handling the malaysian end of things from kuala lumpur tonight. Jim sciutto is joining us from washington. So jim clancy, another day, no answers more confusion from these differing accounts from malaysian authorities of where the plane might have last been spotted. Is there any sense of why things are so inconsistent even at the highest levels . I mean, this public effort by the malaysian government, the public response has just been ridiculous. Its been all over the place. Reporter it has been seemingly going in several Different Directions. The malaysians have been intent on number one exhausting every single lead. You can bet theyll be exhausting the lead they got from china. The Chinese Ambassador was in the press conference yesterday. Or today. They are going to be looking at everything the chinese have, exhausting all possibilities. And yes, this does give them the sense you get impression maybe going in several Different Directions at once. After all, we are searching hundreds of miles to the west of the crash site. Hundreds of miles off the planned flight path of flight 370. So its obvious why were getting that impression. That is what is out there. And jim clancy, the release of these photos really just adds confusion over where the plane might have last been spotted in terms of the information coming from the malaysian government. Yesterday we were hearing reports from some sources in the malaysian government that the plane having made a basically a 180, made a complete turn around. Is there any sense of why things are so inconsistent . Reporter no, there isnt. Nothing absolute. But let me pose something here. If this is so significant, these Satellite Photos, and you can bet theyre going to be checked out. If its so significant, why isnt it being reported on Chinese State media . Yes, the chinese are going to be careful, theyre going to try to make sure that these are right before they release them to the international community. But at the same time, theyre not reporting it as a headline. Theyre not raising the hopes of their own people. I think were just going to have to wait until the cold light of day, anderson, and see what those produce. The malaysian authorities already know theyve got a mess on their hands. Theyve got a lot of fingers in the pie. You see the press conferences. Youve got multiple people up there trying to answer different questions. They know theyve got to get it right and theyre going to try, try to do their best. Ive talked with them. Theyre determined to do that. They certainly havent been getting it right up to now. Jim sciutto, were hearing today word that the engines of the plane transmitted technical data back to Malaysian Airlines. What are you hearing about this . Reporter yet one more confusing conflicting clue in this investigation. The Malaysian Airlines said the engines were equipped with the system that sends data at regular points along the course of the trip. An aviation expert told me today that also would be standard on rolls royce engines. There was a report that rolls royce said it did receive two data transmissions, one on takeoff and shortly after takeoff from the engines. Nothing abnormal apparently. But rolls royce hasnt confirmed that to cnn. The key then is what happened when the plane lost contact. Not just with its transponder but all those other streams of data coming out of the plane. You may remember with the air France Flight that disappeared in 2009 over the atlantic ocean, one clue that investigators had even after they lost the plane, transponder, all communications, was they were still getting mechanical updates in effect, fault messages from that plane which were one of the early clues as to what brought it down. To our knowledge, to public knowledge, malaysian authorities dont have any such information from this plane. Now why would that be . Youd have to have a catastrophic system failure for the plane not to send anything. The transponder, the pilot can turn off in the cockpit. Thats a safety measure, im told, because he has to be able to turn it off in case it was short circuiting and wouldnt bring down other systems. They have that capability to turn it off. The other systems its not like theres a switch in the cockpit to shut all the other systems off. To get no data from that plane there had to be something catastrophe you can and unusual. But again one of those places where you got a lot of questions but no answers. Jim clancy, were now hearing from the director general of the Malaysian Department of civil aviation. He tells cnn that his agency has not weve not received or even seen these chinese satellite images. How is that possible . Reporter it may be a surprise to them. Thats a great question. I dont have the answer. Because middle of the night here, i dont quite understand why he wouldnt have them. It depends on weve got a huge chinese delegation here that would be handling that. Theyre liasing very closely. The chinese cambassador was rigt there staring at the generals inside that press conference yesterday. Well just have to wait and see why that happened. But you can bet going to see think the morning. Jim clancy, jim sciutto appreciate it. Joining us is former Inspector General for the u. S. Department of transportation, mary sciavo. She currently represents Family Members of airplane crashes. David, first of all what do you make of these satellite Images Released by china . This is are they too big . Ive heard experts say theyre simply too big. Just using my good old algebra, adding those numbers up thats close to the fulllength of the plane depending on how you look at it. They do seem awfully large to me. If theyre that large how did they miss them during the Aerial Search . I am encouraged by the fact that theyre close to the last known position. I cant stress how important that is. One of the lessons we learned from air france 447 is that you should always look close to the lkp, last known position. Air france wasnt far from that. It was within that 20 kilometer circle. So im enthused by that. But if those pieces are that large, which is odd, how could they have been missed in the Aerial Search unless they sank . How do you do that . David, the fact theyre so large, youre saying its possible theyre from a plane. That just raises questions about why they were missed. Is it possible that that large a chunk of plane would be intact . It would surprise me. Because air france it was hard to find anything much bigger than a desk. Really . It broke up that much . Yeah. Pretty much obliterated into smaller pieces. But this is those are pretty large chunks of aircraft. It would suggest that if it landed on the water that it landed in a fairly safe way. It was a fairly gentle landing which brings up a whole another list of questions. So i guess were going to have to see, anderson, in the next couple of hours whats reported. Im sure ships are on the scene by now and certainly aircraft is out there. So were going to just have to wait and see. This is one lead we cant ignore so well soon find out. I talked to a naval commander. Well have that later on in the program. He said hell have an update probably in couple of hours as they know more. Mary, what do you make of these images . Im actually hopeful they are images. Because it would end the wondering and start the work. They do seem large but if the plane came down, there have been a couple of planes that came down on water largely in one piece and broke apart at the water. Its always possible. But the most important thing they can get the naval ships there and get the submersibles and start looking again for the black boxes. And sometimes the simplest explanation is the explanation. If the plane experienced a catastrophic failure right there this is where it would be. Statistically speaking thats often where it is. A failure of the plane and some issue on getting the plane down. And thats where it would be. Lets hope that it can start the real hard work and end the wonder. David, yet a lot of people said it doesnt seem like it would have been a catastrophic failure or incident at a High Altitude if the plane did in fact turn around and fly a fair distance without the transponder on. If it is found in this area, that brings back the possibility of some sort of something catastrophic happening. Well, in air france 447 it was an issue, a combination of the Speed Sensors on the outside of the plane and the pilots. So there was i wouldnt call that failure catastrophic. And the plane landed within as i said within a very close radius to the last known position. So again, i dont think were going have those answers until we either put eyeballs on that fuselage or recover those flight recorders, the black boxes. Mary . And also if this was like an air france scenario, again there was a mechanical problem followed by a pilot error, and what it did is stalled and then it falls to the earth. Its been likened like to a leaf. And thats where it would break up is as it fell to the earth. So its hopeful. Its possible. And for the families sake i hope that it is. Because every piece of information is just excruciatingly painful for them. I hope this is it for their sake. David, what do you make of the communication by malaysian authorities . I mean, i keep thinking about those families. Obviously they want any piece of information they can get. But to have such wildly conflicting one arm seemingly not knowing what the other arm is doing. Its horrible in case of air france 447 and being inside that command center, the french were very very careful to bea their version of the ntsb, very careful with the way what was released and the way it was released. I now appreciate that. Because these conflicting bits of information and contradictory bits of information can confusion bits of information have got to be tearing them apart. This is a horrible situation for them to be in. David gallo,appreciate you being on with us tonight. Mary sciavo as well. Coming up next well talk to one of the american commanders on board a search vessel. Latest on what they are doing and how they are holding up. 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