this is cnn breaking news. the worst possible news given to the families of those on board flight 370. the families told all lives are lost on the flight. malaysia s prime minister making an announcement saying that based on new information from british authorities and inmarsat, satellite authorities, new analysis of data that has been out there. they are sure that the plane went down in the southern indian ocean in an area not near any possible landing strips. kate bolduan is monitoring in perth, australia where it is 11:44 p.m. planes aren t flying now. what is going on? reporter: of course, they only want to fly during daylight hours. despite the fact that they have high-tech equipment, cameras, radar, everything on board these flights, they mostly rely on the
september tex sent texts to the family members saying your loved ones are dead basically. i didn t hear that 100% certainty from inmarsat. no, there was nothing new in what he had to say. thi i think today is about the malaysian government trying to get the families out of the hotels and home. how can they do thought without unless they re 100% sure that they re giving reliable information, how can they ten these family members there is no hope? i think they weigh that against another week or ten days in the hotel. we have no evidence that we re any closer to finding any wreck allege. but they have spotted wreckage out there. they don t know if it is from a cargo ship or from the plane. but couldn t they simply wait another day or two or three to see that if is really part of the plane? i think they could have waited, but again, think they re trying to positimanage the expectations of the families.
rest of the time all the way to the crash, we simply don t know at this point. we don t know. that s the significance of getting into the debris field. the fact this plane flew so far, set to be off the southwest coast of australia, is an extraordinary distance for that plane to have traveled under those circumstances. they are going to have to reverse any debris. remember, also, anderson, any debris they find now, they are going to have to reverse drift back up to the location of roughly 13, 14 days ago. that is more and more difficult on every day that passes. atika shubert is in malaysia where families have been informed obviously of the situation. are we anticipating any more press conferences by malaysian authorities. obviously, it is 11:00 at night, kuala lumpur. are they anticipating giving more press conferences?
aircraft. they will have aircraft manufacturer, boeing people in there looking at that, probably take pictures of it, send to them and see if that in fact is a piece of that aircraft. that s definitely confirmation that it was that aircraft in the ocean will. let me get reaction to the news that we just had from the interview with chris mclaughlin. former fbi assistant for you law enforcement analyst is here. what do you think some he didn t say definitively 100% this is the plane that went down and those people are all dead. we heard that basically from the malaysian government, but we didn t hear it from inmarsat. he coached a statement saying i m british, but my understanding of the english language is most likely doesn t mean to sure. and that statement from the prime minister pretty much was that plane went down in the south indian ocean and his statement was most likely it went down. that doesn t mean it s precisely that s what happened. and the malaysian government
angry, lashing out, at anyone she can. there were other angry scenes here tonight, people coming out of their conference room when they got the news, lashing out at the cameramen on the scene. and many people taken on stretchers out of the scene, because of the sheer overwhelming nature of this news. you really have to feel for these family members. hundreds of them in this hotel behind me, which have been going through these days of agonizing wait, and just that information coming to them, which is really the news that they didn t want to hear. wolf? certainly would have been a little more reassuring, i m sure, if there actually had been some physical debris that was recovered from that plane. if they have it, they haven t told us about that, david. the chinese foreign ministry released a carefully written statement and posted on its website, among other things saying china is aware of malaysia s announcement of the plane crash. china has requested malaysian authorities to further p