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
Search officials sound a lot more confident right now that theyre finally, finally in the right spot and that at least some of this mystery will soon be solved. Our correspondents in the United States and around the world, theyre covering the breaking news. Along with our team of experts here in situation room. First, lets bring in aviation correspondent rene marsh for the very latest. Well, wolf, the manufacturers of the pingers, they believe this is it. The sound from the black boxes. Australian authorities have gone as far as they can without actually saying they found it. 34 days since flight 370 went missing, and crews now finally believe theyre searching the right area. After 67 hours of silence came 5 minutes of hope. Ocean shield has been able to reacquire the signals on two more occasions. Reporter the elusive pings, theyve been desperately trying to recapture, detected again tuesday. Once for about five minutes and then again for seven. Ocean shield has now picked up a total
Announcer this is krnk announcer this is krnk breaking news. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good morning. Im Carol Costello. New leads for Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Minutes ago we learned that five patrol planes have spotted objects in a brand new search area that was first checked only hours ago. Nearly 700 miles from yesterdays search area. The sea saw of emotions and seemingly endless contributions proved too much though for families aboard flight 370. They stormed out of this mornings briefing overwhelmed by frustration and fear that the search is once again starting over. Cnns Andrew Stevens is at the hub of that search, perth, australia. Tell us more. Reporter carol, this could be a significant new development. As you say, just in the past few minutes the search coordinators, the Australian Maritime Authority say five of the ten planes which were over that new zone today have all spotted debris. Photos have been taken and they will be assessed overnight. They cant confirm
A very good idea where the planes black boxes are even as they keep scrambling to pick up some more locator signals. Our correspondents are following all the new developments around the world. We also have our team of experts here in the situation room. To explain where the search and the investigation stand right now. Lets go to aviation correspondent rene marsh for the very latest. Wolf, as you said, to hear him tell it, Prime Minister of australia, youd think a breakthrough is right around the corner. Tony abbott is in china to update chinas president on the search for flight 370, but its his tone about how things are progressing thats receiving a lot of attention. Forget cautious optimism. Australian Prime Minister tony abbott is oozing confidence. We have very much narrowed down the search area, and we are very confident that the signals that we are directing are from the black box on mh370. We are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some
Confirms no one in the cockpit ever said all right, good night. Instead the final voice transmission actually was guide malaysian 370. For three weeks they sate it was, all right good night the copilots said before they lost communication. When we got the last transmission from the cockpit that says, at all right, good night. Initial investigation says it was the copilot. Malaysias transport minister offered the last words revision yesterday, but gave no explanation between the two quotes. A cnn expert says the new language is routine. The rest reads like a normal cockpit transcript. Someone saying good day and good morning while the plane was taxiing. Then during the flights takeoff, someone said departure malaysian 370. About 51 15 minutes, main tining flight level 350. And then just before the final words were recorded, malaysian 370 contact good night. This as they tell cnn theyre treating the planes sharp left turn as a quote, criminal act carried out by one of the pilots or someo