Through the volume of the imagery. China also helps satellite images before releasing them to the public. Part of it is not telling the other guy what you got. The reason for that is theres some capabilities that a lot of countries want to keep hidden. One of those capabilities is how fast can you take a satellite image and actually analyze it and use it in an operational sense . Many countries see that as a very closely guarded operational secret. The search from the air see equally complicated. Three orion military intelligence planes two from the Royal Australia Air force and one from new zealand have been dispatched with large area search sensors and radar. Planes capable of low level flight that can stay aborn up to ten hours. The u. S. Navy has sent a p8 poseidon with a unique capability. This aircraft can in essence be the controller of a fleet of drums. It can go up above 20,000 feet or even depending on what theyre doing, then it can control a fleet of drones as they look at v
Theres now a major turn in the search. Heres the latest developments. The search is now going underwater. An australian vessel is towing an american pinger locator looking for the black box signals thousands of feet below the surface. A british ship is using the device in the same area. Without knowing where to listen, its a big roll of the dice and theres another huge problem. The batteries powering the black box pingers are due to run out in a few days but the manufacturer tells cnn those batteries were never returned for maintenance and they actually may already be dead. Aircraft are getting ready for another day of searching. If they can spot the debris, they can narrow the search for the airliner recordings. We have our analysts and reporters standing by in the United States and around the world with the kind of special coverage that only cnn can deliver. Lets go to perth, australia, to kyung lah. Shes got the latest on the search. Kyung . Reporter wolf, normally at this time in t