someone on the crew. all bets are off, really, what caused the plane to go missing, jon. jon: so what's the latest on the search right now, david? >> reporter: well, major development. the malaysia military is now saying they managed to track this plane, and it seems to have turned round about the south china sea, crossed peninsula malaysia to the straits of malacca, and they are saying it did reach as far as the straits of malacca. they were looking principally in the south south china sea for to days. yesterday they switched and also expanded to that area, the straits of ma malacca and also along the western coastline. but they do seem to have, perhaps, at least pinpointed the area the plane was in the last few minutes before it went off their screens, jon. jon: so they are now looking on entirely the other side, the western side of malaysia where they had been looking on the aaron side. eastern side. >> reporter: well, they were looking on both from yesterday's. they may have got this