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Official tells cnn that flight 370 may have been flown on purpose. >> this comes from new analysis of radar data that shows the plane flew north of indonesia. here's a look at the map here. north of indonesia and around indonesian air space after it made that mysterious left turn and flew across the malaysian peninsula. our source said that investigators reached this conclusion after reviewing trap data from neighboring countries. >> on to our second big development a navy british vessel is rushing to that area the hms echo is due to arrive in seven hours. >> now authorities say the signals a ...

Conclusion. that's why we need "hms echo" and the australian defense vessel "ocean shield" to come to the location. they have special equipment to help us make the judgment whether there is anything down there. but i think that the fact that we've had two detections, two acoustic events in that location, provides some promise which requires a full investigation of the location. okay -- >> just to verify the two detections in the area, [ inaudible question ]. >> yeah, okay.

The high probability area, yes. second thing is, in terms of how long it will take the two ships to get there, "hms echo" is closer. she will get there at i would think fairly quickly. i'll take advice from commodore leibby. but in terms of the "ocean shield" she is in the process of exploiting another acoustic event, which we need to look at to determine if there's anything in that. so this is a pain-staking process. and if we get any lead whatsoever, we investigate it and if it is significant, we continue to investigate it until such time as we say, well, no, that is not connected to mh-370.

In an accurate manner to the families. >> absolutely. the chinese do have the most assets in the search. but we do know that the "hms echo" is headed to this area to try to confirm what they heard. what is remarkable about this development has to be that this came in the ninth hour of thinking that time was running out if it had not run out to hear anything. >> well if it is verified it will be a stroke of luck. the batteries are supposed to time out today. they are noun known to work for longer time, eight, ten days afterwards. but they are on borrowed time with the batteries which is why the...

Ocean, and sometimes the acoustic equipment can rebound echo if you like, and all sorts of issues around that. peter, would you like to say anything more? >> just in term of the timing, i believe hms echo is approximately 14 hours from that position and as air chief just mentioned ocean shield it is itself investigating another acoustic detect she's made and once she's completed that activity, if it's decided to move her down and that proves to be not the beacon up there. it will be approximately 2 hours to recover her toed pinger equipment. so it will be over a day before ocean shield is ther...