partners, including the u.s. team, whose officials have been here on the ground in kuala lumpur. since wednesday, the malaysian investigation team have shared more detailed information as it becomes available for verification. the international team are currently working on very fine, detailed information, but we have nothing to confirm at this moment. widening of the investigation. the aircraft is still missing and the search area is expanded. two days ago, the search area was widened to include the andaman sea. together with our international partners, we are now pushing further east into the south china sea and further into the indian ocean. we want nothing more than to find the plane as quickly as possible, but the circumstances have caused us to widen our search. a normal investigation becomes harder with time, i understand, as new information focuses on
i ve been very consistent, we re looking at all possibilities. as regards to moving on to the straits of malacca and andaman sea, like i said, we have to confirm that the primary military radar actually i ve that as mh-370. [ inaudible question ] well, we welcome all assistance. in this case, i think the fact that we lost contact with the aircraft and we don t know where about of the aircraft, except for what air force has provided, and that was to be corroborated. so, i don t think we can make a
and also, this evening, the team from the aircraft exit investigation from the uk and experts from rolls royce will arrive, and they also indicated they are studying the possibility of satellite complication whatever they have and will share it with us, and we are doing that investigation right now. so, we cannot reveal again until we have verified information and confirm the possibility of where about the aircraft is. thank you. okay. [ inaudible question ]
jim clancy has the latest live from kuala lumpur. jim, what can you tell us this morning? reporter: all right, let s go back. as we look at all of those reports, this is a quickly developing story. last sunday we had the military here, the malaysians telling us that they believe that the pilot may have attempted a turnback. remember, off went the switch to the transponder that sends out the name of the aircraft. that can happen sometimes. the reason they have that manual switch is, if the pilot thinks there s a short, something s wrong in the system. when he turned around i asked sources about the altitude, they say it was erratic. he got on that course and never got off that course, nobody heard from the plane again. yes, it went towards the andaman nicobar island. at the time, this may have just been the setting. he may have lost navigation. he may, indeed, have been trying to get back home and land the plane. meantime, malaysian officials telling us today that they are sharing t
which is whether they have satellite pings confirm taking was heading to the indian ocean. the fact they re searching there is almost confirmation of that. also saying look, we re sharing more information than we normally would due to national security concerns with other agencies, saying this is not a normal investigation. of course, it is not a normal investigation at all. bottom line, the aircraft is still missing. they re saying that is the key right now, to find it, but not many leads here still. and the search area expands. all right, we ll keep following this. we re going to take a break and be back in a moment. everything your mouth does in a day is building up layer, upon layer, of bacteria. and to destroy those layers? you need listerine®. its unique formula penetrates these layers deeper than other mouthwashes, killing bacteria all the way down to the bottom layer. so for a cleaner, healthier mouth, go with #1 dentist recommended listerine®. power to your mouth™. als