again, we want to tell you ten planes, ten ships involved in the search today. cnn has new video of a chinese search plane just taking off. of course, it s morning in perth, australia, where this search is being headed up. still ahead here on cnn, we re going to talk with someone who was in a plane crash in san francisco and lived to tell about it. he s going to join me live. also his daughter is here to tell us what it was like to wait for any word from her father, about her father. but next, the important role of weather in this search in the indian ocean. what is the outlook for the area in the coming days? and how could that affect those planes looking for any sign of flight 370? we re back right after this quick break. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 a month? yup. all 5 of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there s unlimited talk and text. we re working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a l
to be revealed. translator: we want malaysia to apologize for the information that caused confusion in the first week which delayed the search mission. and we want the malaysian government to apologize for irresponsibly announcing on march 24th that the plane had crashed. of course, our reporter and our experts are standing by, standing at the ready to bring us the very latest. let s get going right now here on cnn. cnn s sara sidner joins me from kuala lumpur, malaysia. do we know how many search planes are heading out there? it s believed to be about ten. is the main focus to relocate those orange objects? reporter: yeah. eight to ten planes going up today. now that it s light out, we do expect that the planes will be in the air shortly. we also know that the prime minister, tony abbott, is expected to visit the air base there. the significance of that, we don t know. but obviously these objects that they are now looking at, saying that they could potentially be something from
urgency to trying to pinpoint, locate and pick those up. but, again, they stress, the last time that they found some of these objects, chinese vessel picked them up, turned out to be ocean trash. so this time, they re again looking for these objects, saying that, you know, the color could indicate that they re from the plane. again, they re not sure. a lot of this back and forth. investigators say this is very, very difficult, obviously, trying to comb so much of this very vast and deep ocean. but for the families, it s been particularly difficult. because every time they hear something, every time they get a word that there is something out there that might be or could potentially part of flight mh370, their hopes lift a bit. trying to figure out, is this the day we ll know more? and oftentimes, far too often over these 23 days, it has not turned out to be anything. dashing their hopes, upsetting them, frustrating them more than anyone else. because as you can imagine, they
if malaysian flight 370 was hijacked or if a member of the crew purposely did something to alter the path, could that have saved the plane? if they determined it was a problem and they tried to get in touch with the pilot and the co-pilot and they couldn t, then if that system were in place, it seems as though the ground controller could then have handed this aircraft. right now auto pilot systems are manually switched on and off only at the discretion of the pilots in the air. and auto pilot cannot land or take off. this potential solution could also present a new problem. this wouldn t necessarily be hack proof, right? this system wouldn t necessarily be hack proof. so terrorists might be able to get into this data stream and force the plane to handled or do whatever they wanted it to do. has boeing advanced this idea from ten years ago? is the company still testing it out or has it scrapped the idea entirely? we tried multiple times to get more information from boeing. the
survived a san francisco plane crash. also joining me, his daughter. what was it like for her to wait for news, knowing that her father was on the plane. don t want to miss this. we re back after a very quick break. america s favorite lasagna. topped with a mouth-watering blend of fresh cheese and aged parmesan. it makes our lasagna a delicious centerpiece for this table this table and your table. stouffer s. america s favorite lasagna.