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From that debris. >> wow. mary, do you agree with that? you've looked at the images of the debris. does it look like debris fields you've seen in past ocean crashes? >> it does. the more recent ones do look like a debris field. it gets pretty widely dispersed, the parts and pieces get broken up into smaller pieces. sometimes they can stay together. there's lots of wiring on the planes. there's lots of things that kind of act almost like a net. so it can stay in groups. but the pieces do look more like what you see. because when a plane hits the water, it's a very hard impact. it breaks up on i...

Mh-370. he's on a trip to papua, new guinea and he was being asked by journalists about whether he released this information prematurely, because there's been talk about whether this debris could be a shipping container. s what the prime minister had to say in response to that, though. >> it's about the most inaccessible spot you could imagine on the face of the earth. but if there is anything down there, we will find it. we owe it to the families of those people to do no less. >> reporter: he's talking about owing it to the families and he wants to get that information out there. soon after h...

Australia. andrew stevens is there. andrew, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, those images we are looking at, which have been the center of what the maritime officials are calling the strongest lead so far, actually came from australian satellite intelligence. they picked these up, and they were described, actually, at the press conference with the coordinators of the search as being indistinct, and they certainly are indistinct. we know the biggest measures about 80 feet long, but we can't get much more detail than that. now, what happens now is that actually, commercial satellites wil...

In kuala lumpur, there is a roller coaster, one piece of information gets discounted the next hour or day or couple of minutes. so obviously families will watch this very closely. but also very cautious as we all should be very cautious about the information we've gotten from australian authorities thus far, because they simply do not know what they have seen on satellite intelligence. >> reporter: yeah, that is a really good point. and the prime minister also spoke, about three hours ago he got a call from prime minister tony abbott, telling him these two objects were found by the satellite. ...

Roughly the size of the australian land mass. the southern corridor, they have narrowed their search down to that. so within that, there is a zone of 300,000, which they are focusing on at the moment, john. we don't know why specifically they are focusing on this area. it is being reported that they have satellite intelligence from the u.s. and also from australian satellite sources, as well. obviously, satellites and radar is an important instrument. [ indiscernible ]