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By shin xinhua, the chinese new agency. what we know is frustratingly vague. there are two relatively big objects surrounded by smaller white objects over an area of several square miles. nothing more specific than that. aviation experts i've been talking to say that could tally with a debris field from something like a downed plane, but could is the operative word here. we just don't know. now, you said that a p-8 poseidon, a u.s. plane was diverted to that area. it's got to the area. and frustratingly, it can't locate that debris field which the chinese saw. now, what we are learning through...

Of mud to find anyone surviving. >> yeah, that is a really dangerous situation there in washington state. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> and i'm deborah feyerick. it is monday, march 24th, 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin with this, word this morning of suspicious objects spotted in the southern indian ocean. could they unlock the mystery of the whereabouts of malaysia airlines flight 370, missing for 17 days now? a chinese crew reportedly saw them floating on the water, but so far, australian officials say search planes have been unable to relocate them. ...

Moving ships in, because for these planes, they are at maximum capacity. they're operating at the limits of endurance just simply because of the distance from the coast of perth to where they believe those objects were found. >> reporter: that's right. it is 1,500 miles. it is a long way, pretty much getting into the extreme areas of range for effective searching. the p-3 orions, which we came on talking about, they are the backbone of this search operation, operated by the americans and by the australians and new zealanders and now the japanese. they can only stay on target for about two hour...

This southern arc. >> all right, steven, let me ask you about this, the news this morning, the new development that we're all laser focused on is the australian prime minister calling the malaysian prime minister just about 20 minutes ago and saying we have seen some objects, a circular object, a rectangular object, and we are going to have them in hand in the next few hours, if not tomorrow morning. that's what the malaysian prime minister's saying in his daily briefing just about 25 minutes ago. we have seen two debris fields so far that upon closer inspection, they have not been able to fin...

New details now that malaysia airlines flight 370. malaysian officials say australian search planes spotted two objects in the southern indian ocean. one is circular, one rectangular. they hope to have those objects retrieved in the next couple of hours, certainly by tomorrow. let's bring in steve wallace. he's a fomer director of the faa's office of accident investigation and a cnn aviation analyst. and steve, we spoke to someone earlier who basically said there could be three things that happened. it was either a botched hijacking, possibly a suicide, or if that plane did fall to 12,000 feet...