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Which got the information from the plane, which is not communicating from anyone, but got interrogation from the plane's acars system, so they can pin point it's in the south indian ocean and know there's no chance it went to land anywhere. >> what would make it go south, what would make it make that turn? >> yeah, and that is just nobody can guess, really. but i do think that enough passed digging into the pilot and copilot, it's slow work and will need to go on with that, but i wonder if everyone was too quick to dismiss the idea of some other catastrophe happening in the plane, mechanical p...

Information from the families, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, kind of, yeah, we just watched some families watch the prime minister on the television behind me here. they sat quietly, they listened. they didn't actually want to talk afterwards, as you can imagine, betty, but our producer was with them as they got the news and he describes a really moving scene. omar suntamet, whose son was on the plane, sat quietly, stoney faced, really, listening while his wife, who is his son's step mother, gently stroked his arm, then at the end, we kind of knew, but at the end we were reminded, i...

Simmons live in kuala lumpur. this is not the information they wanted to hear. >> reporter: absolutely. it really isn't, bettly. we just witnessed some really heartbreaking scenes behind me here. earlier, while the prime minister was speaking, a small group of the families were here to watch his statement on the national television. they just sat stoney faced, quietly listening to what he had to say. remember, that what they were listening to is the prime minister, one of the families, their son was onboard, 29-year-old son, a son with a child and a wife, so they had to listen to that. betty, ...

Lost and that none on board have survived as you will hear in the next hour. there's going to be a lot of talk about the prime minister's statement and how short they were and how little information was provided, wouldn't you say, ian? >> it's not a great way of putting across such a devastating piece of news. i'm trying to explain to a family that there is some rather abstract new technical model that shows that their relatives went down in the indian ocean is not something -- is not a great way of breaking news like this to relatives, especially in the absence of any physical evidence of the...

Ocean. it is intriguing the timing of this announcement by prime minister razak. he's clearly basing it, it appears, on radar and other analysis, rather than on anything that's been found in the ocean here. if he does have more information, then it's curious he didn't share that with relatives, because that, perhaps, would be a way of reducing the pain, if he had said we now believe we do have some debris, some parts of the aircraft, and it is curious timing that he's chosen to make this announcement without yet having found any parts of the airplane. however compelling the other evidence is, ...