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Top of the ocean. >> do you think that's the airborne search for that? >> well, i think, you know, we already touched upon today. you got the pas, p3s and the 76ers. >> the authority has planned a visual search area totaling the center of the search area lies approximately 2200 kilometers northwest of perth, is what they're saying. but so, even the visual search area appears to be expanding. >> yeah. i mean, the crews will be searching a specific area and then eliminate that and then using modeling and information data from the people who are all over the currents and the tidal flows. that's t...

Only then will they, they say, be able to verify that this is in fact from the missing plane, kate. >> erin, thank you for that update. a third location. a third event is what they need right now. >> absolutely. let's talk about where to this point. first, let's show where these two ping loukzs have been placed. i want to ask you why they're significant. first down here, the one that's more south, we'll say, that's where the chinese pick up their signal right? >> if you look. it is on the arc of the southern corridor which, of course, we've always known it has to be. it's on the upper end of l...

Experts. as we speak, the air search is under way. i would like you to take a listen to air chief marshal angus houston in perth last night. >> i think there's still a great possibility of finding something on the surface. there's lots of things in aircraft that float. i mean, in previous searches, life jackets have appeared, which can be connected to the aircraft that was lost. >> richard quest, this one is for you. life jackets, other floating debris, how difficult is it to detect something small? >> let me show you more than anything else. there we have, of course, an aircraft seat. this is...

Harder to find. the plane's black box is supposed to ping for a month, so there are just days left now. this plane went missing on march 8th. ten aircraft, ten ships are going to scour the search zone in the indian ocean again today west of australia looking for any sign of the flight. australian officials now say orange objects spotted sunday thought to be a good lead here. those orange objects, they're not from the plane. they're fishing gear. fishing junk in this vast area of the sea that is full, full of debris that's simply commercial debris. this morning an australian vessel, the "ocean ...

Search effort, including the malaysian personnel. this afternoon, the high commissioner to malaysia briefed me on the creation of a new joint agency coordination center, jacc, which will be based out of pearce air force base in perth. the jacc will be headed by an air marshal retired angus houston, the former chief of the defense force australia. the jacc will coordinate operations between all australian government agencies and international search teams. as per the information that we have received from the australian authorities, the area of search today is 254,000 square kilometers. today, ...