what i m hearing now. we have originally on the 11th put forward to the investigation a possible north-south route. our engineers and scientists have continued working on the data and comparing with other similar flights from malaysian, to lead to us conclude it was the southern route. would i simply point out that the malaysians are obviously stating that there was any 777 half hours of fuel, and that if the plane went to the south t most likely went into the indian ocean. i m not an expert. i m just simply saying that does look the inevitable experience. so chris, is inmar sat saying the plane most likely took that southern route through the indian ocean? or that it definitely took that southern route through the indian ocean? well, wolf, i m trying to be a little bit british about this. you can imagine, i m saying we look at the modeled path, and we have looked at the experience of the pings we got off the aircraft. they closely match each other. so, you know, if you re in thi
was off. not necessarily true. the transponder was not working. being off implies intentionality. we are saying that there were no more points programmed into the fmc. we don t know what was programmed into the fmc. we can t tell that from any data we have other than. until we get the black boxes, we will be able to look. having said that, i think this current information we have now is going to go a long way in ep hadding helping us finally recover some wreckage and start to unfold the story better. it certainly does back up a lot of the reporting, a lot of what the investigators have been focusing on. there was that initial report and some question about the accuracy of that. clearly, this plane did make a left turn. it did fly for some 6-7 hours given the distance of the location where it s believed to have gone down.
mark, to the family members, probably a lot more reassuring, if he would have said and we have confirmed that we have spotted debris from the plane. well, certainly. and, you know, that s what they really need. they need some level of closure. but at this point, you know, they didn t want to let that information out. but i do agree with peter. in the sense that i think a lot of this was for the family, and to gain a trust level back. i want you to stand by. there is a lot more to dissect and assess, including whether or not this tells us anything about whether a human being was responsible for that plane going into the indian ocean or some sort of catastrophic mechanical failure. we re going to continue our analysis on that. the location where authorities think flight 370 ended is the same area where crews have been searching for debris. we re going to update you on the hunt for suspicious objects spotted in this very remote indian ocean. also ahead, we ll have a live report from
piece together this puzzle really is finding that first piece of debris. right. in a way, this doesn t move us closer to answering any mysteries. we have just reinforced the idea this is where we should be looking. i think this is actually going to put more pressure on the searchers to find something and really try to bring some closure. this is a brutal, brutal process for the people whose loved ones were on that plane and for all the world watch to go try to solve this mystery. when air france 447, the case often likened to this one, they started finding the first bits of floating debris in days. days when they started to find the big pieces. yeah. and yet it took two years for them to find the data recorders. right. and that was a much easier job compared to the amount of drift that we re going to have to deal with. they also had clearer acars signals. they had a number of acars signals that flight had been in trouble. there was data transmitted by the acars. here we o
this information just overwhelming to the families. remember that for 17 long and difficult days, more than half a month, these family members have not had a clue as to where this missing flight was. and finally today, to hear from authorities this plane has gone down, and that all lives have been lost, just they just broke down. there is no other way to put it. many of the family members just finally broke down and let go of that hope that their family members may somehow still be alive, wolf. yeah. sara sidner in kuala lumpur. we ll go to beijing later and get reaction from there, as well. most of the people, two-thirds of the passengers aboard their flight were chinese. let s discuss what s going on right now with mark weise, aviation analyst, pilot for american airlines. and tom fuentes, cnn s law enforcement analyst, former assistant director of the fbi.