Us along with our panel as we watch this, the idea this search might have to be stopped for a given length of time, its not something we certainly have never heard of. We heard that before with air France Flight 447, that the flight had already been found. But were way early on that. Were not i dont think for a moment were going to be talking about stopping at any time soon. Remembering the Southern Hemisphere winter, its coming into fall now, then winter will be coming along shortly. I think were some way off. Id be very surprised if hes going to announce hes bringing friends home tomorrow. Absolutely once winter arrives in the Southern Hemisphere and depths of winter, you wont find them going out. It would be too dangerous with the planes and it would be fruitless. They will do what they did with 447, regroup and look at the evidence and set up a new plan for where theyre going to start. David, i mean, can this
debris amei mean, some of it would sink after a certain amount of time. What is floating will stay floating for longer than you might expect. The bottom of the cargo compartment, which is a Green Zinc Chromate color. One part of debris is said to be green . Yes, which is fairly unique to that aircraft. Typically theyre painted white and have a different color inside. This aircraft doesnt, its green. Its a honeycomb structure, it has a sealed epoxyed together, which has sealed Air Compartments inside it. If its floating, its likely to continue to float but certainly not through the winter. And were anticipating this Press ConferenceGetting Started any time soon. At this point, there are no assets now on scene in terms of the search, even obviously aircraft are not flying given the bad weather, but even ships on the surface that were in the region, had they left the search area . It was ordered out of the search area. There was one ship in the area and it was ordered out because of the waves. The Australian Military saying the wave length has been extreme, 6 1 2 waves and the swells have been doubled that. The conditions have not been ideal. It is foggy. This is an air known to pilots as a roaring 40s, right at 40 latitude and longitude and you toss in bad weather and it makes it too dangerous to be there on the water or in the air. The Press Conference that youre seeing, as we show you a split screen here, that Press Conference is quite unusual. Its actually just right over my right shoulder. Its a bit of a walk but that Press Conference is nothing that weve seen here since we arrived. You dont have the Defense Minister simply fly in and gather the reporters. We havent had the military come over to us and say, okay, everybody, gather up, its time to make some sort of announcement. Were guessing at this point it must be something significant. The first highest Level Minister weve heard from through all this and we were called to it. Were very anxious what hes going to say. Richard . Ive just been advised by one of our producers who says that the Minister Of Defense will be joined by the vice chief of Defense Staff and the deputy chief of joint operations. So theyre pulling in the big brass here. Im guessing were going to get a very good operational overview and a road map, unless of course whether theyre going to tell us theyve identified something. I think its going to be more
operational, this is where were going, this is where were going and where we expect to move it forward. Most information which has come out, how does it come out from the military, from Military Authorities . Theres not regular Press Conferences you said . No. Weve had to in some ways because theyve been so overwhelmed by our phone calls call and call and call and call or they released it via social media or on their web site. Thats why all of us here on the base are really quite interested in whats going to be announced because richard may very well be right that this is just a plan of what its going to look like now that were into day six. But, you know, this is a highLevel Minister flying into this Military Base from a distance and, you know, wanting to talk to reporters. We think this might be something significant. When was the search called
off for today . Its obviously just past midnight here, very early tuesday morning, very late monday night, however you want to look at it. Its tuesday afternoon in australia. At what point was the search called off . Reporter it was publicly announced about 55 minutes after the first plane was set to take off. In that vein of how do we get that information, it came via press release, it came via social media. It didnt come through an announcement. Thats a pretty big deal to simply say were not going to be searching to. You did notice this morning that the cars were arriving and the crews were arriving. It did sound like they were going to take off. We had been given no indication that today was not going to be a day that they fly. In fact, we had been told that they were going to again take to
the air. But whether always is the determining factor of whether or not you can continue an operation like this. About 55 minutes, anderson, is when it was at least publicly told to us that it was not going to be happening today. And this Press Conference or statement should be any minute. We anticipated it about six minutes ago. In about 24 minutes from now, theres a Press Conference in kuala lumpur, in malaysia, that is supposed to take place. The fact that there are these two different Press Conferences, it does give you a sense of just on a very limited scale of the complexity and scale of this entire operation and investigation. I mean, the communication has got to be its coordinated, it shows the difficulty and the breadth of we have this situation in china right now where you have Family Members heading toward the Malaysian Embassy, situations in kuala lumpur where theyre preparing
for this Press Conference, a conference in perth, australia. It involves so many different nationalities and personalities. The complexity is unbelievable. The thing about an Accident Investigation, i dont care how big or small it is, you never know what you did right, you only know what you did wrong. Thats really a difficult position to be in. I really feel for these folks doing this investigation. Ive never done an investigation that after the fact want second guessed and even myself second guessed. Thats part of getting the experience to do it and i just feel for them right now. Theyre going through a lot. In terms of the investigation, there are representatives from the ntsb, from british Authorities In Kuala Lumpur working with malaysian authorities. How does Something Like that get coordinated . What we do is we have an inspector in charge, whether thats the ntsb or delegated to
the faa in smaller cases. That gives you a single point of contact and that would be incredibly difficult with all these countries and varying levels of experience and what they can and cannot do. The ntsb is cautious not to go there and take over things. Theyre very experienced. But when theyre not the inspector in charge, theyre in a difficult position as well. Theyre in kind of a Tender Position of trying to build and contribute to the team without trying to take over and step on egos and Everything Else thats involved. We heard a short time ago Family Members in beijing are heading toward the Malaysian Embassy to protest. There has been a lot of criticism of malaysian authorities. Fair or not fair, richard . Its not been a rollsroyce of an investigation. Its not ban Gold Standard investigation that you might have expected to see out of the ntsb or the double aib in the u. K. Or b. E. A. In trafrance. I think the truth is its been
nowhere near as bad as people are saying. The reality is if you were to say how many facts have they got wrong, almost none. Have they had to correct or tweak things . Undoubtedly. Thats the normal way to do things. But to start this mass im sorry, let me just Malaysian Airline spokesman is telling cnn Malaysian Airlines is not sending Family Members anywhere until they find wreckage of the flight or receive Emergency Notification from the Search And Rescue operation in australia. Just been given that word. Earlier in the day there had been reporting they are looking to possibly flying Family Members once the debris was found to australia. Its going to depend on when actual debris from the plane is found. This has been unprecedented, everybody agrees. But two weeks ago ill give you an example of what were talking about here. Everybody says why do they continue looking up in the north when clearly there was radar tracks and all this stuff showing the thing turned around. Because it had to be verified it, had to be confirmed. We know it was sent backwards and forwards to the u. S. And k. L. They would have been excoriated if they sent ships all the way down to the south indian ocean, 2. 5 thousand miles on a hunch. The malaysians know what they are doing, its been messy. Others may disagree. This is an overwhelming situation in its magnitude. The likes of which we have never seen. Its unprecedented absolutely. An Accident Investigation in and of itself is an overwhelming thing from the standpoint down right to emotion, as you understand. They probably withheld information as part of the
investigation process because some of this has not is not for Public Knowledge because its detrimental to the families, to the friends of the passengers. Even National Security issues are involved given Military Radar versus civilian radar in countries like malaysia and elsewhere. Countries are loath to let their Military Information be known to enemies or even allies. And it got worse. The plane wasnt where it was expected to be. And suddenly not only do you not have a plane where you expect it to be but youre starting to hear rumors that its actually gone in the opposite direction and youve got no evidence. Now, if there is a criticism, it goes to the malaysian criticism for not spotting the 370 going across on the night. And theres still a big question of how that could have happened, how could it have crossed malaysian airspace without the military realizing. But the core issue of expecting them to have known that the plane was two and a
half thousand miles in the opposite direction, and even that inmarsat said you see a bunch of reporters waiting around where the Australian Defense minister is said to be making a statement or giving a Press Conference. It was supposed to take place 12 minutes ago. Obviously we are waiting just as the reporters are waiting in the sun there just outside perth, australia. Kyung, have officials given any word on whats gone on . We dont. We have a colleague at that Press Conference right now and ten minutes to 12 they were given tenminute warning. It was scheduled to happen at noon. We dont know exactly what the delay is all about. We know hes traveling in, the Defense Minister is traveling in. Perhaps theres a travel delay. We simply dont know. But if i could just add one
thing to what you and richard were talking about, you know, you mentioned the criticism about Malaysia Airlines. I was told by a chinese journalist here that theyre under the impression that the chinese families are coming here and coming very soon. Weve heard a number of reports of fathers of the passengers heading to the Kuala Lumpur Airport because they were told by Malaysia Airlines they were going to be traveling to australia. So there is a lot of mixed messaging happening and it very frustrating for the families, its very frustrating for the people who are emotionally and directly involved. So, yes, there is all this criticism out there but the effect of it is that its making it much more painful for the parents and the children of the passengers. Our David Fitzpatrick is at the Press Conference awaiting it. David, what are you hearing . Reporter anderson, there have been two other members of the Australian Defense ministry
staff joining David Johnson here. So far there are about 50 or so members of the media here, there is a line or four orions here. We have to sit here and wait. As soon as we see people walk up, well certainly let you know. Again, this is just a sign of the kind of coordination on a small scale taking place. Malaysian officials are supposed to be giving a Press Conference 15 minutes from now. On Something Like this would i mean how much communication is there or would there be between the investigation taking place in malaysia and australian officials with the coordination of release of information . It goes back to the fact theres no singular person in charge of the investigation or
controlling the information back and forth. As les pointed out, at some point you have to say what is real information, whats not and whats worth what do we need to spend resources investigating. You could go down all kinds of different routes but at some point you make up a priority mate tririx of the theories and philosophies and put weights on that to come up with mathematical figures to figure out the most likely scenario. Im sorry, go ahead. But to try to dilute that map with whats going on with all of the different participants has just got to be painstaking. Were told the Press Conference will begin shortly. Were going to take about a 90second break and bring it to you live when we come back. Frequent heartburn . The choice is yours. Chalky. Not chalky. Temporary. 24 hour. Lots of tablets. One pill. You decide. Prevacid. 24 hour [ male announcer ] even more impressive than the research this man has at his disposal is how he puts it to work for his clients. Morning. Morning. Thanks for meeting so early. Come on in. [ male announcer ] its how edward jones makes sense of investing. We are going to make some comments regarding the investigation and the australian and International Efforts to hopefully find something regarding flight 370. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for keeping everybody informed as to what is going on and what is most important event in terms of aviation and maritime safety. Today im here to speak to the crews and the maintainers of these magnificent aircraft that are behind me. I want to take the opportunity to publicly thank all of the crews and all of the teams that keep these planes flying. As you know, it is a fourhour trip down there, two hours on station and then four hours home. This is an extremely remote part of the world. It 3,500 meters deep, 2,500 kilometers from perth. Eig its a massive logistic exercise. There are four australian p3s, a p8 from the united states, two illusions from china, theres a p3 coming from korea with a c130h this afternoon. I want to thaake the opportunit to thank all of those countries for their assistant. I had lunch with the teams and theyre keeping their aircrafts flying and keeping their teams up to the minute enthusiasm. Hms success has had to deployed to the west to avoid
major weather operations. Visa fees will be waived for the families of the passengers and crew of this malaysian aircraft. We will be very pleased to welcome them here to give them some closure in what is an extreme tragedy for them. So for that i come back to the fact that this is an amazing example of international cooperation, particularly between militaries. And may i say as a western australian, we are very pleased to host the chinese, the japanese, koreans and americans into western certainly australians. Reporter are the chinese being flown here to be flown over the logistical area . I dont want to speculate because this is a major operation. This is probably one of the most remote parts of our planet. We want to get that right. We want to assist these families and friends to have some
closure, but lets talk about that when we know how many are coming and when theyre arriving. Reporter is it very clearly now a case of not looking for survivors but looking for debris and looking for the black boxes . To this point in time we have no successfully identified and recovered any debris from the aircraft in question. Reporter can you confirm this is the place that the plane crashed . Reporter in his view the plane was in the southern ocean. Do you share that strength of view . I think if were going to go on data and information giving us a hint as to what has actually happened, thats all weve got to go on. The telemetry from the satellite, the inmarsat satellite and the performance of th