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You try to pinpoint where that plane could have gone down. the search area they're looking for now, that target area, still, as andrew stevens has reported, is the size of poland. if you're talking about, you know, hydrophones trying to pick up sounds, you know, still, that is a very large search area, very difficult as time runs out to try to find that data that's so critical. >> well, the radio beacon from the flight director has a range of about 10 kilometers, but without that beacon, you're looking for something the size of a shoe box on the ocean floor. so, quite frankly, it's much better...

They continue to mount up, these sightings. just yesterday it was 122 pieces seen by a french private satellite. now, aviation analysts are telling us that could indicate a debris field. 300 pieces of debris could indicate a debris field. they're all around about this same area. this is crucial. but what is so frustrating is, as you were saying, the flights called off today because of weather, bad, bad weather. was described to us by one of the u.s. navy p-8 aircraft as being severe turbulence. visibility virtually zero. and actually there was a threat of icing. now, icing on the wings can be ...

Zero hour in the search for flight 370. planes are set to take off from perth, australia, as the sun rises. they'll head for a new target area in the southern indian ocean where 122 objects were spotted by satellite. experts call this the most credible lead now. another breaking development. a new "usa today" report quoting a high ranking malaysian police source saying investigators have narrowed their suspicions to the pilot and the theory that he deliberately redirected the plane. u.s. government officials tell cnn there's no hard evidence of that right now. our correspondents and analysts a...

Design for this but it was giving bursts. even though there was no data. and we can time those bursts and we can get a measurement. that's the measurement that they came up with. and that's why they drew this arc. this semicircle of where the plane may have gone. let me take you back to the map. we'll take out those arcs and now let me take you down here. so the ntsb initially, that's the national transportation safety board, initially had an area off australia that was huge. 370,000 square miles. and the plan was that would take at least six weeks to search. but in the last 24 hours, they cam...

This might be a good explanation why there was no radio calls or transponders and satellite communication. other communication aids and data links dropping off. that would be the first equipment. that would drop off in this case. and then it would perhaps, crew would be incapacitated during the fire because of the smoke or fire. >> thank you very much. ross aimer, former united pilot. let's go back to kerry sanders who has been on the phone with officials from the uss kidd. >> i'm just off the phone. he tells me the p-8 aircraft that has this advanced technology is on station. that means that ...