239 souls onboard. It is now four days into the search. And one new theory has emerged. Take a look. At first, investigators believed the plane traveled this scheduled route, then disappeared. But tonight, new clues suggest that the plane could have veered radically off course. And that means, a vast, new stretch of ocean to be searched. Abcs bob woodruff is on the ground in beijing with the very latest on the disappearance of flight 370. Reporter today, the malaysian military is quoted, saying they believe the mystery jet headed way off course. The flight carrying 239 passengers en route north to beijing, banking hard to the left. The military saying the plane soared back over hundreds of miles of land for an hour, never sounding an alarm, cruising low into the strait of malacca, a busy shipping lane near a tiny, rocky island called pulau perak. No boat, no one on land ever spotting it. An almost unimaginable maneuver sparking even more questions tonight. From the sky, it is like look
Swirling that the pilot is the focus of the investigation. Lets go to Andrew Stevens live in perth, australia this morning. Reporter good morning. A very frustrating day again for the pilots on this search. Crucial that the ships remain on station given the size of the storm down there. While theres frustration for the pilots, there could be potential new developments coming to us from satellite images. New this morning, thailands state News Agency Says a thai satellite a has spotted about 300 floating objects. These pieces located just over 120 miles from the area where a french satellite spotted 122 floated objects, those released on wednesday, that potential debris spotted sunday off the coast of perth, australia. Thats about the distance from washington d. C. To denver, colorado. They scatted over about the size of denver. This is todays Aerial Search for wreckage called off. Severe weather forcing all planes to return to base. Beaten up by turbulence in the remote search area. Thi
Tougher. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The breaking news right now, the Aerial Search is about to resume as dramatic new satellite images give a boost to flight 370. Aircraft now getting ready for a new day of searching after flights were called back due to severe turbulence and icing. Six ships have continued to search despite the storms and Poor Visibility in the targeted areas. In the most recent sighting, japan now says one of its intelligence satellites has spotted ten objects floating in the radius near the search area. The largest piece is 13 feet by 26 feet. That follows an announcement of a big debris field reported by a thigh satellite. Ranging up to 50 feet long. That debris was about 125 miles from where a french satellite spotted dozens of objects earlier in the eke. Our analysts and our reporters are all standing by and they are here in washington as well as of special coverage that only cnn can deliver. We begin with pamela brown with the very latest. Pam
[ gunfire ] its also where the masked men took over the police headquarters. This video is all new in to the cnn newsroom. Security forces have said that they will but they saw no signs of a large ukrainian force. And this video just in this afternoon. Its social media video that reportedly shows proukraine protesters beaten and bloody. Cnn cannot authenticate the video. Lets take you to nick paton walsh. The situation is very volatile right now. What is the governments response to all of this violence . Reporter well, weve seen a really troubling violence. An amnesty who is willing to lay down their arms by 9 00 tomorrow morning local time but also the promise of military intervention to stop what they call terrorist actions here. Translator we did everything to avoid human victims but we are ready to give an answer to all attempts at invasion, destabilization and the council took the decision with the participation of the armed forces of ukraine. We wont let russia repeat the scenari
A grim announcement from malaysias Prime Minister declaring that flight 370 ended in the remote area of the southern indian ocean, a conclusion based on an unprecedented analysis of satellite data. Grief and agony as relatives are told that all lives are lost. Malaysia Airlines Says it informed most of the family in person or by phone but some got the word through text message. Some are accusing malaysian authorities are hiding the truth. Aircraft are hunting for debris after planes spotted objects in the indian ocean search zone. An australian vessel is headed towards the sightings. Lets begin with our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Shes got the latest. Barbara . They actually relied on embarrassingly old maps to make this hightechnical cue lags about how this plane was moving and the way it was moving away from their satellite and that let them calculate where the plane went down offering new information that the u. S. And malaysia have suspected for days. For grief stricken f