what do you think? as with everything that comes out about mh 370, we need to treat it with extreme caution. there have been a lot of blind alleys in this particular search for this particular aircraft. first there were the satellite images that led to nothing. then there was debris spotted by aircraft three weeks ago that led to nothing. and now we have these pings. it s still a very early stage. until we see imagery of aircraft, of the aircraft somewhere on the bottom of the ocean, or we see some wreckage, we have to be highly skeptical and very cautious about this. why do you think we haven t seen any wreckage? as we heard from angus houston, until they find some wreckage, they can t really move this forward too much and make any sort of confirmation. why hasn t anything been seen since they seem to be in pretty much the area you would expect given now that they have located some signals. well, even though they have kind of narrowed down the area quite a bit, it s still a vast
welcome back, planes approximate and planes and ships are continuing the search. a pinger locater has detected more audio signals in the indian ocean. those latest signals were picked up in the northern path of the search area. the australian ship, ocean shield, two distinct pinger returns were detected. the leader on of the search operation said it could take days to confirm if the signals are indeed from flight 370. so the search takes on a new direction and authorities are encouraged but very cautious. and searching for anything but 800 meters of water, it s a complex undertaking and now we are joined by david gallow, it s
the leader of australia s search operation said it could now take days to confirm that it s indeed flight 370. and joining me now at the base of search operations, cnn erin mclaughlin. if the chief marshal described the new signals as the best information they have had. remaining cautious saying that the whole process will take days. let s go over everything that we learned from the conference a short time ago. that is right, rosemary, he said it was an extraordinary find. he tried to characterize the discovery. take a listen to what he had to say. clearly, this is a most promising lead. and probably in the search so far, it s probably the best information that we ve had, and
funny noises that go on in the ocean at this department at this depth. all right, erin mclaughlin, many thanks to you. one thing we know will continue to be key, the weather conditions out there on the southern indian ocean. it has been changing week to week, samantha moore joins us with that part of where we move. it s key that the conditions are favorable to a search. absolutely and we have had activity the last few days, rosemary and errol on of a tropical nature. we have bands of clouds that have a search area further to the north and of course, that area has expanded, and in that area, we recently had tropical
that s right, rosemary. promising, encouraging, extraordinary, all words angus houston used to describe the findings of the australian vessel the ocean shield. he spoke at a press conference just 90 minutes ago. take a listen to what he had to say. clearly, this is a most promising lead. and probably in the search so far, it s the it s probably the best information that we have had. and, again, i would ask all of you to treat this information cautiously and responsibly until such time as we can provide an unequivocal determination. well, the ocean shield detecting not one, but two separate acoustic events. the first lasting a total of two hours and 20 minutes. the second lasting 13 minutes.