Saying they have two significant pieces of objects found in the southern indian ocean off the coast of australia, and of course this plane has been missing since march 8th, the missing developments now, live to kyung lah in kuala lumpur, kyung, if this new development is true it certainly changes things for the missing families here. Reporter certainly, the families here a short distance behind me. They have been waiting, waiting for this. But this is really going to be it is hard to explain. It is just going to crush a lot of these families. There is a big banner that is in the lobby of this hotel. And it may be inexplicable to a lot of us who have watched this unfold in the last two weeks but the banner says pray for their safe return. With all the theories out there, starts and stops some of these families have really hoped the that the plane would be found intact. So the families want an answer. They want it to come to an end. But at the same time, don, this is not the end that they want, even though many of them knew that this probably would be the end of the story. Stand by, i want to welcome our viewers, our International Viewers of course here in the United States and around the world. Im don lemon in new york, of course youre watching cnn 12 02 in the United States, what were hearing is that they have found two objects in the southern indian ocean that they believe is connected to the missing airliner, flight 370, it went missing on march 8th, for 13 days now with no clue. Hundreds of thousands of people have been searching for these, at least 23 countries in the search for this. Now they believe they have found it off the coast in the indian ocean. Specifically they say two objects possibly related to the search for the missing flight, and that is according to the australian Prime Minister, tony abbott, he said it is new and credible information. It has come to light nearly three weeks after this plane has vanished. He said the Australian Air force has been diverted to look into the area to see exactly what the objects were. He did not specify what they were but australia has taken charge of the search in the southern indian ocean Just Announced a couple of days ago. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information based on satellite information of objects possibly related to the search, abbott said, and following special analysis of the satellite imagery, two possible objects he says related to the search has been identified. Cnns Richard Quest is joining us here in new york. Richard, we had just finished up our special broadcast and got word of this and immediately came back on the air. By far this is the biggest, Biggest Development in this particular situation. 13 days, we have been waiting for this not only us but 239 families, at least. That is the sort of grief and anguish, last friday, don, you and i talked about the chinese satellite pictures and then we hoped they were accurate but they proved to be released by mistake and not relevant. And when vietnamese war ships went there, search ships got there, there was nothing there. This time it is very different. And australia, let me remind you don and viewers both in the United States and around the world, the malaysians requested the australians join the week at the beginning of the week, once we got the two arcs, the northern and southern arc, australia was requested to take over the primary search. And the Australia Military got to grips with that. They very quickly realized it was a vast area but they got to grips in cutting it up into manageable chunks. As the commander said on many times, it was easier to do thousandmile searches from perth, because you had a much better location from which to search the south indian ocean. And that is why but this is the interesting bit tonight. Don. Tonight, it is the satellite imagery, we dont know whose satellite it was. Was it the u. S. , the australians . The brits . We dont know. But the satellite imagery which im guessing they have pored over, and they made sure the sizes were right. Because if you recall don last week the experts said the pieces of debris floating in the south china sea, there was no piece of the plane big enough to justify that. So a lot more credible stuff tonight that moves this into perhaps the single most Important Development since the plane was lost last friday. Absolutely, 12 06 eastern time in the United States and we are receiving that Significant Developments in this story from australia, specifically the Prime Minister saying that they have found objects that they believe to be credible in the southern indian ocean off the coast of australia. My colleague, Anderson Cooper is here, as well. Anderson, this is significant, you would not have the Prime Minister coming out if they didnt think it was an Important Development. There is no doubt bit. But we should caution we have been here before. You remember last week china put on the website what they said was debris from the crash. That turned out to be not the case. They backtracked on that within about 24 hours so we want to be very cautious what we know at this stage. And really what we know, you have been reporting on australias Prime Minister, tony abbott saying that based on satellite information and satellite data they have identified two pieces which could possibly be debris. This of course comes really in the last 24 hours where the search for what happened to flight 370 really has focus on this area west of australia. This off the coast of perth in australia. So there is a lot we dont know at this hour. We have reporters all throughout the region in australia, in malaysia, as well. Our kyung lah is here. We have been talking to Richard Quest who spent time actually reporting on Malaysia Airlines before this incident occurred. We have mary schiavo here, as well as experienced pilots. We have a lot of experience to draw on. But i do want to bring in Richard Quest, you were just talking to don about the scope of the resources which have been deployed. I was talking to a u. S. Navy commander earlier tonight who focused on this area. This australia area because they really felt they had exhausted a lot of their search areas further north in the bay of bengal. They really felt this was the area that they had the best chance at this point of finding something. But again they didnt know and they were facing a scenario if they didnt find debris of just constantly expanding that area of search. And that is really interesting, and crucial because it was the uss kidd and i think it might have been on 360 where we were learning about the fact that resources from the kidd were being transferred to Western Australia because it was easier to search the indian ocean from land on the western coast. Now malaysia asked australia, australia accepted the duty to marshal and coordinate all the search operation. But throughout the week, u. S. Officials have told barbara starr, weve heard from jim sciutto, we heard again and again that they believe the plane came down in the indian ocean. The northern track was there, and they still add supporters to its theories. But as the week went on it became clear it really was the south indian ocean. But the difficulty, anderson, was the size and scale of it. Particularly 13 days on. Because now once the australia ships and planes and as the poseidon is on the way, once they get there and although it is credible and although it is identified, once it is confirmed to be flight 370 wreckage then they have to work out the tides. And i as you said i was speaking to a commander from the fleet earlier and he said that is a crucial point, richard, because even at finding debris on the surface, given the amount of time, this is not the air France Flight 447 which crashed from rio from rio going to paris several years ago, which was found after five days, wreckage was found, ultimately they found the aircraft itself after two years because it was in 13,000 feet of water. But given the length of time, the more than 11 days, it is going to be very difficult for them. Possible but very difficult even if they find debris on the surface of the water to try to triangulate, the tides, sheer amount of time that has passed. But they can do it. What youre looking for if you have two pieces of debris already. Now you start working back. When is the tides . The water temperature, the winds, and you start looking for a much larger debris field which will probably be there, because as weve heard many times over the week from people like mary schiavo, the plane seats, cushions, life vest, part of the tail, part of the wing. Once they find that. You talk about 447, they found the debris field and actually they went backwards and forwards over the plane several times before finding it two years later. They did. It is an art, not a science but it is science that will come into practicing that art and they will be able to retrace with a degree of certainty. The way they have done this so far, anderson, is at the extremities of science. They triangulated this from pieces that were designed to do this. So theyre already accomplished looking at the next stage. We have new information coming into cnn, the malaysian military is checking on this new information from the Australian Authorities. The source tells cnn, verification could take time to locate and verify the objects. But richard as you know and as we have been reporting in the last several days and well probably to to kyung lah who is on the ground there souther, ma airlines has come under scrutiny, from media around the world and outside observers for a lack of transparency and a lack of coordination in terms of the information that they were putting out. I talked to a number of people who were involved again in that search for air France Flight 447 and french authorities who were in charge of that investigation were very careful about the information that they put out to the public. Whereas malaysian authorities, one day we have been told one thing, contradictory information, then released the following day. Two issues, what they have been telling us, the media and the families and what they tell the other investigators, the ntsb, the fiaa, the australian equivalent to the ntsb. But the reports that we heard later in the week from Law Enforcement and search officials was that they were not seeing raw data, they were seeing analysis data. They were not being privy, but then all of a sudden that changed. The malaysian Prime Minister and the transport minister basically said nationals, we are putting aside National Security issues. We are making all the raw data available. This is not about politics. Now, was there an element of chaos . Has the been the most well managed or well constructed . That will all be for the investigation. Tonight we have facts and they are the first facts that we have had in some considerable time. And again for viewers just joining us, well take a short break as we gather information. But before we go to break were waiting for a press conference to try to get the word, if youre just joining us, the word we have gotten from australias Prime Minister is that objects have been spotted, according to satellite information. Theyre sending information. As we have known for the past 12 hours or so we know this has been an intense area of focus for the search operations. U. S. Authorities, australian authority, as well. As we know there are some 26 countries involved in the entire search area for flight 370. Were going to take a short break, our coverage continuing on what could be the Biggest Development in this case, in this missing case in many, many days. Well be right back. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i cant rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels dont unstuff your nose. They dont . Alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. 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Good evening, everyone, it is 12 17 here on the east coast, 12 hours ahead in australia, that is where the focus is right now, australias Prime Minister, tony abbott, saying that from satellite information they have identified two pieces of debris, possibly, possibly, that is not verified. Theyre trying to identify what the debris is. As you know if you have been following this case now for 11plus days we have been here before. We have chinese officials or at least what they said was satellite data showing wreckage from an aircraft. That turned out not to be the case. So we caution all of these reports because they are very early. This just starting to break about half an hour ago or so. We do anticipate a press conference from australias Prime Minister at any moment. We obviously are going to bring that to you live. It is 12 18 in Western Australia where the focus of this is. We have a correspondent, Andrew Stevens there. Well talk to him shortly. We have all the assets of cnn deployed on this. Kyung lah is joining us from asia. I want to show you what australias Prime Minister said earlier this evening, earlier this morning australia time. Lets watch. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search. Following specialist analysis of this satellite imagery, two possible objects related to the search have been identified. I want to bring in a former faa investigator, author of the book why planes crash. David, can you explain why if this is in fact wreckage and again we do not know, if this was in fact wreckage from the flight why this flight could have ended up in that region of the world. Why the focus so much of the search has been there for the last 24 hours or so. Well, either one of the most credible angles or theories could explain why it is in the area, one, because there was a fire on board and the pilot just continued into that area, but as far as if somebody took over the plane i wouldnt have an explanation about that. One of the areas im concerned about, if that was debris, coming from the raff, i would say if they made this announcement they are very credible accident investigators. They did the quantas investigation, and many of these, this coming from the experienced investigators means a lot. The biggest investigation is the clock is now starting to tick. If it is truly wreckage they have to get on, figuring out where it came from and start to get close to the boxes, because to find the black boxes the under water beacons will only be there for 30 days. We have what . 17 days left . And they only have a range of between three and seven nautical miles. There was so much comparison, it took a full two years to actually find the air France Flight. There is quite a variance in the area, as far as the topography in the area. The reason we had so much trouble with air france, the fact it was so deep. 13,000 feet, you have already given up close to three miles locating the under water beacon locaters, the black boxes. I have gotten conflicting answers and would like to hear your theory, if the plane ended up in the water, crashed in the water, is it etl elt devices, which are supposed to basicaly act as beacons almost once a plane hits water, life rafts are deployed automatically. If this plane hit water why would those beacons not have gone off . It is very perplexing, because you have 16 satellites circling the earth, looking for the frequency. The fact it didnt pick anything up is very perplexing to me. You have two a deceleration trigger that should be able to be picked up. When the rear one of the aircraft touches salt water it would have given off a signal as well. It is very concerning to me that we had not picked that up if this is indeed the wreckage. We have to ask ourselves if the system is working or not. It is salt water as you mentioned, the response to salt water triggers that secondary one in the rear. My question, though, is if the aircraft hit at a great speed, would the elt go off . I dont know if it did in the case of air france . Absolutely it would. In air france, i cant answer to that. I dont know what was equipped. The elt is not a required piece of equipment by the afr. It doesnt have to be on there. It is just this particular aircraft in this year, the manufacturer had this installed on it. It is more for a general aviation, small aircraft. They have the transponder on it, they have the aircraft, the tracking in commercial aircraft. So therefore it is not required by afr 121. And that is not a device that could be shut off by a Circuit Breaker . No, not a Circuit Breaker but if you have the arms on it it can be by that model. Some are made to be taken off the aircraft for use in