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Comprising of agencies with expertise in satellite communication and aircraft performance to take this work forward. the new analysis i have described was convincing enough for the aaib to brief the prime minister that mh-370 flew along the southern corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the indian ocean, west of perth. within a few hours, the families had been informed and the prime minister announced a new development to the world. as the prime minister stated, this type of analysis has never been done in any investigation of this sort. there remains more work to be done an...

Despite what malaysian authorities are saying are we any closer to finding this plane? >> we are a lot closer to knowing the whereabouts of the aircraft. what the inmarsat evidence today along with the aaib and what we learned from the malaysian government is we can rule out the northern corridor. this plane went down in the southern corridor and by the words of the inmarsat, in the south indian ocean. >> mary, can you remember a time when a conclusion was made about a plane crash without a known crash site or any debris found at all? >> no, i really can't. and also i can't remember a time whe...

Disappearance of flight 370 and even though malaysia's prime minister says flight 370 bent down somewhere in the southern indian ocean, plenty of questions remain about the information used to reach that definitive conclusion. china, in particular, wants malaysians to share all of their evidence. let's bring in cnn's richard quest. what do you think of the headline that based on the inmarsat data, the malaysian government says everyone basically is dead right now? is that enough to tell these families that their loved ones are gone? >> i think you have to take it as more than just inmarsat. in...

Company that provided the satellite data which indicated northern and southern corridors, inmarsat, has been performing further calculations on the data, using a type of analysis never before used in any investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on mh-370s flight path. based on the new analysis, inmarsat and the aaib, have concluded that mh-370 flew along the southern corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the indian ocean west

Overarching picture. what they had was existing data that we had had heard before. what they did was went back and refined it again and again and again. and it was done between both inmarsat, who received the data. and then passed it on through a service to the airline. and through the aaib, the british air action investigation board. and mike can tell us the mechanics. this ises the extremity of doing what they do. they had never done this before. they had to use new techniques. they had to refine the techniques they were doing before. and they had to also ensure it was at such a level of con...