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Australian naval vessel has a goal. remember we were telling you about the debris on monday. debris spotted by an australian plane. green or gray or orange. they dropped a beacon. this australiaen naval vessel now knows it has a place to go. it's going to try to find that debris, pull it out and bring it back for those families. the problem is because of all the weather yesterday they're not sure if that beacon is next to that debris or not. so they are steaming to that area and they're going to try to recover it, anderson. >> kyung, thanks very much. david mckenzie as well. let's bring in our...

This is incredibly rather to have a public demonstration like this on the streets of beijing. david mckenzie is there on the streets there tonight. kyung lah is in perth. kyung, what kind of aircraft are up in the air right now and how are conditions in the search area? >> reporter: we can actually hear the turbo props of a p 3 orion right behind me. it is going to take off shortly. the australian military says that representing a number of other countries all zooming to this area right now. it's a variety of planes, some military planes, some civilian planes, a total of 12 planes in the air i...

They were shouting out they wanted evidence, answers, closure, pointing at the malaysian government for a lack of information. also many of them angry that they got this information in text messages that the plane had gone down, often in english which they couldn't understand. so you can really see the sense of this pressure cooker here in china with these families just wanting news, wanting some kind of closure, anderson. >> did malaysian officials, anybody from the embassy actually talk to the families? >> reporter: well, the police, the chinese police both plain-clothed and uniformed police...

Example what would have happened. >> martin savidge, if a plane runs out of fuel as is believed happened here, how does a plane this size enter the water? are there different scenarios? is it a glide down? one engine loses power before the next? >> reporter: right. these are things we've been trying to simulate. put it into like neutral if you will and we'll sort of show you. we can't shut the engines off. the simulator doesn't allow that. it would do all sorts of computer problems. but we have tried this. put the engines completely in neutral. take the plane off of auto pilot. and then you le...

Your instrument panel will momentarily go blank when you're using it, but that could be a surge situation there. >> richard, are we any closer to understanding, are investigators any closer to understanding whether or not the plane was on autopilot or annual control, given the turns we now know the aircraft made? >> no, we're not. we know the first turn, then the west turn, then there's the turn, the long turn that takes it down into the south indian ocean. clearly, no pilot is going to be standing there or sitting there holding the controls for the full several hours. i think that's highly un...