It is tuesday, april 1st, 4 00 a. M. On the east coast. There are very important, new details to tell you about in the development in that search for flight 370. A malaysian government source telling cnn investigators are convinced someone in the cockpit or on board the plane is responsible for that sudden turn off course. They consider the disappearance of flight 370 a criminal act. And with that explanation, theyre altering the official version of the final signoff from the jetliners cockpit. Jim clancy is live in kuala lumpur for us this morning. And jim, we understand you just obtained a transcript of the final communication. What does it show you . Reporter this is the full transcript between the tower and flight mh370. In it, you hear all of the things that are going on between the pilots on board the aircraft, air Traffic Control, ground control, the kuala lumpur tower, as this flight proceeds. It carries through, you know, from the time that they say that they want to take off,
A tsunami warning sends thousands and thousands of people evacuating from their homes. A live report just ahead. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. And good morning, everyone. Im deborah feyerick. It is wednesday, april 2nd. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. And we begin with breaking news off the Pacific Coast of south america. An 8. 2 earthquake hitting the waters off chile, causing major evacuations and at least five deaths. You can hear the sirens. Many scrambled to leave their homes as sirens did sound in the northern part of the country. There were at least 20 significant aftershocks. Chilean Officials Say there are road collapses and power out in many areas. Reporter martin arasta is live in chile with the latest and joins us on the phone. Martin . Reporter hello, deborah. So, what is happening there . What are you seeing . Reporter well, it seems to be good news, deborah. The crisis, the earthquake or the impact from the earthquake appears to have sided and
Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight breaking news. A delta flight with 273 passengers on board forced to turn back as it approached bengurion International Airport in israel. The incident less than a week since a surfacetoair missile struck down a passenger jet over ukraine killing all on board. Today the faa suspended all u. S. Airlines flying to and from israel for at least 24 hours. Delta flight 468 was the first inbound flight affected. It was an hour away when a large rocket landed about a mile from the airport doing considerable damage to a house nearby according to the Israeli Defense force. Benjamin netanyahu called u. S. Secretary of state john kerry this afternoon to ask the United States to reverse the ban on flights. Earlier the Israeli Airport Authority urged those u. S. Airlines to reconsider saying, quote, theres no reason that american carriers should stop flying to israel and thus give a prize to terror. Several airlines followed the United States lead. Including those f
For flight 370 is ramping up this morning as the clock ticks down on that remaining battery life on the planes black box recorders. It is estimated they will only ping for about 30 days, and time is running out. As christine said, about six days left. Ten aircraft, ten ships will be scouring the search zone in the indian ocean today west of australia, looking for any sign of flight 370. Australian officials had described four orange objects spotted sunday as a promising lead, but theyve just confirmed to cnn they are not related to the plane. Theyre just pieces of fishing equipment. This morning an australian vessel, the ocean shield will make its way to the search area, carrying a hightech u. S. Navy pinger detector that can scan under water for the black boxes. Australias Prime Minister, tony abbott, says if the flight 370 mystery is solvable, they will solve it. He spoke exclusively with cnns Atika Shubert. Atika joins us live from perth, australia. Atika, whats the latest . Reporte
Fredricka whitfield. Just a short time ago a train carrying the bodies of those who died on Malaysian Air flight 17 moved away from the crash scene the refrigerated train cars are headed to donetsk in eastern ukraine. Thats a volatile rebelcontrolled area. Earlier search teams found the bodies. Many of the bodies are on those cars. Also today, the leader of the prorussian rebels says he has technical devices that might be the black boxes. He says if experts determine the black boxes are indeed the flight recorders, they would be returned or turned over to international investigators. Lets go to phil black at the crash site. Phil, what more are we learning about those black boxes . Well, fredricka this is a key part of international concern. Where are they . Such a key part in determining what happened. One day after the leader of the rebels said we havent touched the wreckage, we dont know where those voice and data recorders are, they now say we have technical items that may be those