Answers. How long did flight 370 stay in the air and how come no one noticed it. Was the transponder deliberately shut off or mechanical failure . Is there possibility a plane could have landed somewhere. A plane full of people, 239 people, doesnt just disappear. So where is flight 370 . Our big story. Its been a week almost the fate of flight 370 remains unknown. We have new information tonight. Barbaraer s starr what do you k . Reporter good evening, piers. A senior u. S. Official now telling cnn exactly what you said, there is a strong likelihood the flight is at the bottom of the indian ocean. Why do they come to this conclusion . The malaysians have now given the u. S. In the last 24 hours some access to key data, essentially pings from the airplane as it flew four to five hours out over the indian ocean to satellites. The u. S. Has analyzed all of that and now concludes that it did fly over the indian ocean. Basically these pings match the air frame, the type of engines that was
Airport. The pilots aborted the takeoff when the airbus a 320 blew a tire and the nose gear collapsed. No one was injured. More on flight 370. This is cnn breaking news. This is piers morgan live tonight breaking news on flight 370. This time its from the u. S. Government. Administration officials tell Cnns Barbara Starr theres quite significant likelihood the plane is on the bottom of the indian ocean. They also say there are indications the plane may have flown for hours longer than we thought. Malaysian authorities report they have multiple pings of data that were transmitted from the plane to satellites four hours after the communications went dead. Communications on the plane were shut down 14 minutes apart. When it comes to this mystery there are more questions than answers. How long did flight 370 stay in the air and how come no one noticed it. Was the transponder deliberately shut off or mechanical failure . Is there possibility a plane could have landed somewhere. A plane full
is another. the remote controlled vehicles armed with sonar and remote control arms may sift through silt and potentially through wreckage in pitch dark waters. it can be painstaking. it can be very difficult. the you know, sometimes the boxes have separated from the wreckage. sometimes the boxes have separated from their pingers. so this is going to be a long process. reporter: george howell, cnn, chicago. joining me to talk about the difficulties a deepwater operation to retrieve these boxes is cnn analyst david suse, specialist christine denison. and from boston, we re joined by our guest with a company that makes these pingers. thinking we re going to have any more days for pinger detection? the pingers are designed with
scotia in 1988, the search recovery and investigation took four years and cost $39 million. but what of the collateral costs of missteps and mismanagement of the investigation? frankly, the malaysian government has not handled this at all well. and that s clearly cost time and resources. reporter: the many governments engaged in this search already own these assets, including ships and planes. so one way for them to look at this at least is an extended high-stakes training exercise. joe johns, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. joining me to talk about the cost of the search is cnn analyst david suse, expert christine dennison. on the phone from boston is oceanographer david gallo who helped in the search for air france flight 447. with your background in searching for two years for air
second. so that s the worst case scenario that if this what we think could be debris gets into that current, that s going to be your worst case scenario because it s going to be very, very hard to find. where it is right now though the currents are very weak. so if conditions stay like they are now, and they can get to it quickly, ashleigh, looks like that s going to be our best case scenari scenario. that s a lot faster than i thought, jennifer. david, weigh-in, please, i think it was you i heard earlier this morning call the potential impact a scatter point. mean fg that plane hit the water and did exactly that, scatter, does that change the equation for finding it? meaning, if it went in more or less in tact at least or if it went in in hundreds or god forbid millions of pieces, does that change the idea of being able to find it, make it easier, make it harder? absolutely makes it harder if it did. what i m hoping and by looking at the size of this and if this is the part of the