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The new search zone for the missing airliner and this is a first. Chinese and australian aircraft spotted multiple objects. The state media reporting three suspicious objects seen by chinese were white, red, and orange. However, so far none of those objects, nor the ones taken up from the sea today, have been confirmed as having anything to do with the lost jet. We also know new this morning that searchers covered 97,000 square miles today. To give you perspective, thats the land area of oregon and theyre concentrating on a new zone, almost 700 miles northeast of where authorities last focussed their hunt. This shift was based on a new analysis of radar data. Australian Authorities Say todays search has wrapped up at least for the day. We know there are four ship theres right now. More ships due to arrive in a zone tomorrow. Meantime, as families of missing passengers demand proof of official claims that all lives were lost, a to ....
Than the last ditch effort. peter, i want to know from you, though, i mean, we have to assume that they know a whole lot more than they re releasing publicly. how much do you think they re holding on to and are they doing that because they really don t want to compromise the situation in any way or is it because maybe initially this search did not go as it should have gone, the investigation? robert s made a great point about transparency. that s one of the things about the u.s. system and the uk system of investigating accidents. the facts are on the table as they are discovered and confirmed. in this case, there has been a great reluctance on the part of the malaysians to release facts or to let even the group of investigators say, this happened. we don t know, as robert mentioned, whether this plane did use waypoints as navigating ....
The air, you have to think, you ve got the search happening on the ocean surface with the ships. you ve got extra spotters in the air. it really is coming to a critical mass in this new zone that s identified. and we should point out the malaysian and australian officials tell us every hour that search area is being further refined by more radar data by satellites and we re hope that that means that the more they can narrow the scope of the search, the more success they ll have in actually finding something. all right. paula newton live in perth for us. thank you. talk more with two cnn aviation analysts, jeff weise and peter goals. peter is the former ntsb managing director and robert renault, veteran aviation correspondent. thank you for being with us. thank you. so, first, we want to say again that we don t know yet if these items pulled from the water are parts of or involved at all with flight 370. ....
Confirm or deny if these new objects have anything to do with flight 370? we know as paula just said, you can tell and throw, you know, or get rid of some things because you know that it s trash. but to be really definitive how long do you think it will take? well, i think if the answer the answer is no, if this stuff is not aircraft, that should be able to be determined pretty quickly. and likewise, if it s got a serial part number on it, it shouldn t take very long. there s only certain number of kinds of parts that are in an airplane like this. so it shouldn t be very hard. i would say in the next day or two. but i mean, we have to be patient. we have to bear in mind that the ocean is huge. there s if we ve learned anything over the last week, there s a lot of stuff floating in the ocean. we should expect a lot of false positives. so, robert, i wonder, why is this we heard the optimism from peter and his ntsb contacts, his sources. why is this area and why are officials mo ....