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>> when you get above 35,000 feet, we're talking 5 to 10 seconds of useful consciousness. as a pilot suffers hypoxia, the motor skills decrease, judgment decreases. >> the australian government is only focused on finding the plane. the cause is being left up to malaysian investigators. >> but the questions as to why this occurred are not ones that we need to address in determining the search area which has been our focus. >> the assumptions lead here, the new search area highlighted in orange still along the seventh arc where flight 370 made its final satellite connection. >> this site is the ...

Breaking overnight, a new search zone announced for malaysia flight 370. it is expansive. more than 23,000 square miles in total. it's further south in the indian ocean. officials are mapping the sea floor hoping to search in august. we have live in bangkok with more. this is something, i mean, just remarkable. how much of the ocean they have already searched, now shifting further south. why? >> reporter: well, christine, what they are hopeful is they finally pinpointed where, exactly, the plane is. when i say pinpointed, they have a huge area to look at. we are talking around 60,000 square ki...

Almost four months and very few answers into the disappearance of malaysian flight 370. today australian authorities are expected to reveal plans this wednesday for a brand new search in this new area. they re-evaluated that satellite data and they say this could be their best chance yet to find this plane and the remains of those 239 people on board. cnn aviation analyst rene marsh is here. when we say new location, it's the same ocean, rene, just a different spot. >> exactly. same ocean, different spot. the target area we're told could shift hundreds of miles south of the last search zone wh...

New search area will be in relation to the previous areas? >> reporter: hey, victor, we don't know specifically where this new search area will be. although if this independent group that came out with their report last week is anything close to what the australian transportation bureau will be announcing then we expect the search area could be hundreds of miles south along this arc that came from all of the satellite data, analysis of the airplane's trajectory, fuel consumption, all of that. we know that this international team has been going over the data t models, trying to figure out if th...

Tight cluster of spots. ironically, this is much closer to the area that searchers were looking at originally before those pings which have now been discounted threw everybody off. this is closer to the area where there were the satellite images, talking about possible debris fields, all of that kind of thrown out when the area shifted north. now we could see it shifting south again as the search continues for this plane and the 239 people on board. >> will, there was -- there were so many resources available on the onset of this crisis. i'm wondering who is going to be conducting this search ...