Were 17 days ago. Hold on. Something new, though, spotted in the water. French Officials Say one of their satellites picked up what might be debris in the southern indian ocean. Airborne search crews are heading to that area to check that out. The malaysian government today cast doubt on the theory that someone punched new flight directions into the airplane in midflight. They say the last communication from the flight deck showed a normal programmed route to beijing. Flight 370s intended destination. That brings us to the question. Question number one in your week ahead. How does malaysias update affect the ever evolving timeline from Malaysia Airline flight 370. I want to bring in cnn aviation analyst, miles obrien. Also a pilot. Miles, break this down for us if you will. The update of the acars data, does that have any significant meaning to you . Its a big deal for us on the outside of the investigation. Weve been operating under the assumption for quite some time based on obviously some Bad Information that there was this other path that was programmed into the flight Management System. And it had several waypoints that would send it off into the direction generally where the search is occurring right now. Now were told that was not the case at all. This plane was, in fact, headed to beijing. That was like the prime piece o think somehow that the crew might have been involved or maybe they were maybe they were hijackers who were forcing this. Most likely the crew. Take that away and we really dont have any evidence the crew was doing anything nefarious. There might have been something catastrophic that occurred that might have put them in a scenario, excuse me, where they were trying to keep the plane flying. Trying to get it to a lower altitude. And a decompression situation. And perhaps in the confusion of all that, either lost or unable to get a radio call out or transponder. I realize thats a lot of what ifs. You have to consider it. Miles obrien, see you throughout the evening on cnn. Thank you, sir. Looking for any sign of flight 370. Heres question number two. Will the u. S. Send more resources . Lieutenant david levy joins us now. Hes on the phone to answer those questions. Hes onboard the u. S. Blue ridge in the South China Sea. More resources . There are plans in the works to have some more Resources Available in case some of the aircraft debris is located. You know we have new information or new this is simply just a prudent effort to preposition the equipment and train personnel so that were able to respond more quickly if debris is actually found. Lieutenant can you tell us or would you know how long the navy would stay committed to the search . We will stay on the search as long as were needed. Right now were focused on on the mission itself, the crews from the p8 and the p3. These are long days for these pilots and air crews. These are dedicated professionals that will continue looking as long as were needed. Are all u. S. Assets directed to the search near the australian coast or are there more places along . The p8 flight out of perth is directed to the the identified search area by the australian authorities. The other aircraft, the p3 thats flying out of malaysia is still searching another portion of the indian ocean. But were directing our efforts wherever theyre needed. All right. Lieutenant david levy, thank you very much. We appreciate you joining us. You know, this week nasa is rolling out a new plan to help to help look for missing Malaysia Flight 370. Will space Agency Technology be able to boost a search for debris . The answer is next. Create a three course italian dinner with Olive Gardens new cucina mia for just 9. 99. First, choose unlimited soup or salad. Then create your own pasta with one of five homemade sauces. And finish with dessert. Three courses, 9. 99. At olive garden. 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Certainly better thatten the images here, my noaa satellite that can see clouds. The problem is the focusing and location of the satellite. People have been tweeting you can read my license plate but how come you cant find a plane. We can read a license plate, or they say they can, if they focus the lens in one spot. Thence you wont get coverage because youre only looking at a license plate. Miles, you have to move things to the right places. A lot of our satellites are geosynchronous. The earth rotates beneath them. We only have a couple of windows are minimal on the location as the earth spins beneath them. There arent a lot of because theres not much there, theres not a lot of stuff that is permanently trained on the southern ocean. So thats part of the problem here. Commercially available satellites, stuff you see from digital globe, are one meter resolution or sometimes less. That means an object three feet long or sometimes less can be resolved by even commercially available satellites. You know, nasa is not in the business of identifying pieces of debris on the surface of the ocean. They have a lot of scientific satellites which analyze ocean currents and so forth. Im not exactly sure how much resolution they have. As you point out, chad, very correctly, if youre using too much of a telephoto here youre defeating the purpose. You need a little more of a wide angle or at least the standard lens, if you will, can 50 mill miter to sort of find something to look at. Then you zoom in. That leads me to my next question, then. If either of you can answer this. So if they do find debris, right, lets just say are they able to zero in on it a little more with the satellites, right . They do find debris, the smallest of it, can they identify from small debris . What will they glean from that . Obviously if its a big piece of the plane with the logo on it, you can tell. If its just small debris, what can they do . After 17 days, miles, this is pretty broken up. Yeah. This is the problem. How much of this really would be floating at this point . Seat cushions, maybe. You could come up with a scenario where if the plane hit the water in a certain way, there might not be much that even surfaces. So, you know, this is the tricky part. Is what would float, how big would it be, you know, in the case of the air france crash you had a big composite vertical stabilizer which broke off. Because its composite it has this honeycomb inside it. Its filled with air. And it floated. And that was a big that was very helpful to the search, obviously. In this case youve got a virtually all aluminum airplane. Theres not a lot that floats except for seat cushions and bags. And that is obviously what theyre looking for. Don, im getting all kinds of questions, don, about why are we just finding this debris in the ocean now . Why didnt we find this years ago . Because we never looked. There was no reason to focus down there and spend all this eye time, people time and satellite time looking down there. Thats why were just finding it now. Yeah. Why spend that money for a cargo container, right . You just replace it and just let it go. As we have been its obvious the ocean is a vast, vast place. Well, 17 days now. People are asking as well about salt water and erosion of evidence. This would be pretty quick to start eroding, wouldnt it . Yeah. The salt water. The depth. Certainly if its down at 9,000 or 10,000 feet with the pressure. Bear in mind the real evidence is in those black boxeses. And they are designed to withstand this. Lets stay focused on that. They its highly likely they survive the impact. Theyre designed to do that and theyre designed to go down at least 20,000 feet of depth in the ocean. But miles . Uhhuh. Absent of that, the thing that a satellite is going to find, the ocean is so deep. Lets say they dont hear the pinging. The chances their chances may be better to find a bigger piece of debris, and thats why theyre looking . The satellite obviously would not pick up, you know, the black boxes or the flight the data recorders because theyre so sma small. Right, right. No. Theyre not going to see that. I see what youre saying. As far as stuff thats floating, its turbulent seas. We have established that fact. Its very likely theres not a lot on the surface. We still cant say with any certainty that they are searching in the right place. If we get a better focus, don, a smaller area, not 1 million square miles, where we still are at this point in time, there will be sonar ships out there looking for something metal on the surface of the ocean. No matter how deep it is, it will ping differently than the muck thats down there. All right. See you guys in a bit. Thank you. 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We understand from a source close to the investigation that says the military radar that detected this aircraft just as it made that turn had dropped to 12,000 feet. Now, this is significant because it raises so many more questions as to why it dropped shortly after making that turn. What we know now just adds more information to our timeline. We know already malaysian authorities believe that at 1 07 when it made that last acars transmission identifying itself at mh370 it was still bound for beijing. Lets not forget that. Then when it made the turn after 1 19, it then dropped altitude. Now, so many questions raised, don. Yeah. Absolutely. Saima, you can bring that in for me, please. New information. I think it it adds so many more questions. As you say. But i think it might explain a little bit. Saima dont go anywhere. We want to keep you here on this breaking news. I want to go to cnn miles obrien, our aviation expert here as well. Miles, you hear what saima is reporting. Shes saying military radar tracked the flight between 1 19 and 2 40 showed that the aircraft did change altitude after making a sharp turn over the South China Sea as it headed toward the strait of malaka. Down to 12,000 feet. 77 pilot said if that did happen, hes saying there was some sort of crisis in the cockpit. Probably a fire in the cockpit. And they were trying to get down to a lower altitude so that they could get the bad air out or the smoke out of the cabin. And they became overwhelmed. Does that are you gleaning that . Totally jives. Absolutely. Thats exactly where i am on this, don. First of all, just a word of caution here. This is a primary target at this point. That means the transponder is turned off. Thans the difference between something in two dimensions, actually really one dimension as opposed to something that has three dimensions, really. The transponder provides information on the speed of the aircraft and the altitude. For obvious reasons the military wants to know if any intruder is coming in what the altitude might be. But its not as accurate as what you would get if that transponder is on. 12,000 give or take. If youre in a situation where you have rapid decompression, 10,000 feet is a magic number. You want to get down to 10,000 feet because that is when you dont have to worry about pressurization. You have enough air in the atmosphere naturally to keep everybody alive. Part of the procedure for a rapid decompression, for a cabin altitude problem as they call it, its called a high dive. And you go as quickly as you can down to that altitude. So this supports what ive been talking about, about a possible catastrophic situation and theyre trying to get down to a safer altitude. All right. Is saima still there . Saima, this explains it explains what happened. It doesnt explain why it happened, that new information. Correct . Reporter yeah. Thats right. The source weve been speaking to said, you know, thats what theyre trying to work out, don. What exactly went on onboard in that cockpit that made the pilot or whoever was in the cockpit, lets remember, we still dont know who made that turn. We now know that it wasnt preprogrammed. So this lends itself to the notion that perhaps this was because of some kind of catastrophic failure onboard. The pilot, copilot trying to safe the event. Or someone entering the cockpit and doing this deliberately. Either way, there was a deliberate turn. It dropped to 12,000 feet. And there are a range of possibilities here, of course, don. A fire onboard. Were they trying to go low down to because of rapid decompression as weve discussed . What happened onboard that made the pilot go so low . A lot of people are raising also questions about and weve heard this over the last few weeks, would the plane have been able to go below a radar. Well, actually, no. 12,000 feet simply isnt low enough, don, to avoid any kind of military radar for sure. And commercial radar, we understand. So kruscrucially all we know ri now, and this is a crucial piece of information, of course, as were trying to piece this jigsaw puzzle together, don, that the plane made a deliberate turn that was not preplanned or preprogrammed. And at that point, shortly afterwards, because of this military radar, the source that has spoken to cnn has told us that it dropped down to 12,000 feet. What went wrong onboard flight mh370 to make whoever was onboard do that . Don . Stand by. Saima moshin. Military radar that tracked flight 370 between 1 19 a. M. And 2 40 a. M. Showed the aircraft did change altitude after making a sharp turn over the shoouth china sea and as it headed toward the straight of malaka. And that it was flying as low as 12,000 feet at some point before it disappeared from radar. Thats a source close to the investigation into this missing flight. Thats what theyre telling cnn. The official not authorized to speak to the media told cnn that the area mh370 flew in after the turn is a heavily trafficked air corridor. And that flying at 12,000 feet would have kept the jet well out of the way of that traffic. Sources have said that the sharp turn seemed to be intentional because it would have taken the boeing 777 two minutes to execute it. A noticeable time period for anyone onboard to notice. Also had there been a fire on the flight, the pilot or copilot would have triggered an emergency signal, which didnt happen. Thats what the source says. We have les avent here who is a 777 pilot. You have been saying all along there was something catastrophic that happened in the cockpit. Ie, a fire. They were trying to get low enough to get the toxic air out of the cabin and out of the cockpit. Correct . That may have been part of the procedure. It was o