Thats according to commander marks with the u. S. Search team, and were going to be getting an update from him in just a moment. First, though, this failure so important, because its on the back of whats been called the most promising lead yet, pings that have been consistent with both the planes flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. On sunday, an Australian Navy ship towing a u. S. Pinger locator, thats the device you see in the water here, right there off the edge, the yellow device, called a t. P. L. , or toad pinger locator, twice detected signals. Keep in mind, the black box signal is designed to transmit 30 days under good conditions. Were now day 32 in not good conditions. The first detection lasted two hours and 20 minutes, the second just 13 minutes. These pings were detected 375 miles northeast from pings friday and saturday. From everything we understand, by the way, these things cant all be to the same plane, these two situations will not both be true at the same
Like this from ed. It says if flight 370 landed intact on the Ocean Surface would it be completely crushed by the intense pressure as it sank to the bottom . I want to go right to cnn reporters in the search zone michael, i will start with you. What are you hearing in perth about the search efforts . Its ongoing, as you said. The planes have headed out. There they are searching that area as they have been now for weeks. The ships are out there, too. More than a dozen ships. One ship that is towing the pinger locater that u. S. Navy had, they are going up and down slowly trying to find anymore pings. We had two last week and two pings on tuesday and looking for more before they run out. This is day 34 for the batteries on the locaters. They are meant to last 30 days or so. So they are running down. The more pings they can narrow the search down. They have the ship out there towing it around. Interestingly we were on a website that tracks ships a few moments ago and saw a british ship th
Flight 370 may have taken a route into the indian ocean after it made the baffling turn. This flight path taken around indonesia and raises the possibility the aircraft was being piloted or programmed to avoid radar. Like Everything Else so far these latest leads are tantalizing. Reporter after weeks scouring the indian ocean, this is the best lead yet in the desperate search from malaysian flight 370. Its been detected signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black box. Reporter this is the remote area nearly 1,000 miles off the western coast of australia where Officials Say two sets of electronic pings were detected by an australian ship. The pings were heard in waters that are nearly 15,000 feet deep. Or more than 4,000 meters down. The first pings lasted more than two hours, the second just 30 minutes. But could they be from the ship . To find out, rescuers have this robotic submarine with cameras attached on board. Which can be deployed in hopes it can get a visual. Essen
Ocean. Australian ship, ocean shield detected two pingers. One the leader on of the search said it could take days to confirm it. Joining me now at the base of operations is cnn aaron mclaughlins, this is the news for those viewers who are perhaps just joining us in this hour. I think its critical, erin, that we go through the breaking news that we received about three hours ago now from perth f australia and the search chief. Rosemary, they have detected not one but two, it happened in more shallow waters, and the second signal lasted 13 minutes. Both consistent with the characteristics of the voice recorder and the inflight data recorder. Take a listen to what Angus Houston has had to say, as he tried to characterize the discovery in a press conference earlier today. Clearly this is a most promising lead. And probably in the search so far, its the its probably the best information that we have had. And again, i would ask all of you to treat this information cautiously, and responsibl
More than 20 people wounded in all, you will hear shortly more about how she helped to save her friends life. This as you might imagine is sending shock waves throughout the small pittsburgh community, where chances are Everybody Knows somebody involved. We have correspondent pam brown with more. Reporter chaos and tragedy this morning at Franklin Regional High School in murrysville, pennsylvania, police say a 16yearold ran into the classroom on the horrific stabbing spree. I can tell you when we got there, there was a hallway pretty much in chaos as you can imagine. A lot of evidence and blood on the floors of the hallway. We had students running about trying to get out of the area. I was walking over towards the exit. And there was blood all over the floor. Thought maybe somebody had a nose bleed or something. And someone yelled she got stabbed. Area hospitals are treating victims for stab wounds to the chest, torso, and back, according to officials. I would say half of them are life