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In meteorologist chad myers. chad will tell us about the flight path of this plane, what the terrain is like. take it away chad. >> carol, it appears that it is a strange flight path gone to the east and turning to the left. when you draw the straight line people expect planes to fly in straight lines. that's the flight path today, that was the flight path yesterday. that's how this flight gets to dusseldorf. what's curious to me this morning is that the plane appeared to start descending. i won't say losing power, no imaginations here. the plane began to descend right there, right there where...

That uses the ground stations also. obviously it wasn't utilized in the part of the world that we lost mh-370 in. but all this thing is going to do is being able to track the airplane and maybe get a more precise location if we have another issue. >> is the infrastructure in place to be able to mandate that if governments were to choose to do so? >> yeah, i think so. but to clarify some mythology here airplanes are attract -- over the oceans we don't have radar coverage like we do over most land areas. but we're still in contact with company staff on the ground. that's by regulation. we're alw...

Function shortly after the last communication. it could have experienced an electrical problem. the component could have failed or it could have been switched off. we don't know. but what we do know is that the data link system known as acars was stopped from transmitting data, but the unit itself continued to talk to the satellites. that takes specialized knowledge and it takes some deliberate key strokes into the computer system to disable its ability to transmit data. that's a deliberate act by someone with knowledge. and so that is an important distinction and difference between all the ot...

Tracked a plane on the radar going without transmitting data. that's helpful identifying it as 370. what do you think? >> maybe it's a break or development. i don't know why they just figured this out now. if they were tracking a plane without a transponder, wasn't squawking or communicatincommun hopefully this was a break and give us indication of where it was going. and maybe direction of air speed. >> what do we know about where wha they saw in terms of where it was? >> no. they haven't said what they have seen. it makes sense to give it to investigators and get them working on it first. >>...

Map but the point is in the very southern indian ocean, the australians are moving their ships and plane s out into that area looking for any signs of this wreckage, if there is any. they -- there's a good map. so come off of the western side of australia there and they are now searching in that portion of the indian ocean. it's a vast expansive ocean and some areas two to three miles deep and the -- in its entirety, 28 million square miles. but all of those countries to the north, the last known track, either going north or south, those countries to the north have said they don't believe the ...