board that ship, which is the ocean shield, which is an australian ship that is carrying a u.s. pinger locator, towing a u.s. pinger locator. turned off all the noise producing equipment, lowered their device to 1400 feet. and they said they got some stronger and then it faded out because they were moving away from it, which they said was encouraging. then they said they reeled it in and they did a course change. and then when they turned around, once they did the course change, they lowered it to 3,000 meters, and then detected it for about 15 more minutes. and everything that the commander told us and also that the man in charge of this search told us is consistent with what our audio expert says is what happened before we even had this press conference to reveal that. it s very exciting. very exciting. i think we are finally found the haystack.
extraordinary discovery. brian, it s rosemary church here, looking at this, it s quite a challenge, even though it s cutting edge technology and the best they have for this really, but it going to have to go backwards and forwards and now we at least have this area narrowed down, but it s still huge and extensive, isn t it? give us an idea of timeframe here. it going to be a very are extensive area to cover, rosemary and the time, as you heard the search coordinator. the chief air marshal angus houston say, it could take days for them to go down and do a search that could come back with credible information on this. there s a long way to go, to confirm any indication at all as to whether this is malaysia flight 3-70, they will deploy the blue fin 21. it does not need to be tethered,
answer at some point and he recognizes it may be months, it may be years. errol? in the meantime, we know the chinese government has expressed this frustration. we know the jacc has said that they will communicate more openly with china, how does the government view this considering more than half of the passengers were indeed chinese? it s very personal, the 154 people on the plane are chinese. and the chinese government has been giving as much resources as possible. they are projecting strength in the search because so many of the people are chinese citizens, they have many ships on the sea. nine vessels and they have several aircrafts and many chinese satellites that have been involved with this. there was a bit of controversy over the weekend because the initial reports about the pings
welcome back. in the search for missing malaysia flight 370, investigators say they have their most promising lead yet. absolutely. a u.s. pinger locator aboard the australian ship ocean shield has now detected more signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft flight recorders. officials say the search will now go under water to locate possible wreckage, a key piece of this ongoing investigation now, which has lasted more than a month. brian todd joins us from washington to discuss these new developments, because, brian, what becomes key now are these this pinger locator. and essentially, the search now goes underwater. that s right, errol and rosemary. what we ve been doing over the past couple of weeks, my team and i have been reporting on the capabilities of the towed pinger locator, the device which detected these signals overnight. and also, the other device on the ocean shield along with the
unequivocal call and link what we re hearing that makes 370. and only then we can get on this. that s true. we have we have all indications that we have we have all of the different descriptors of the pinger. we don t know of any other aircraft with a pinger that would be going now. right. so you would expect it s this. and so why isn t there anything? anything. we ve got to go, guys. thank you very much. i appreciate everyone here. incredible breaking news coming out in the very early morning hours of monday morning in the u.s. i m don lemon. the coverage of the search for flight 370 continues in just minutes with rosemary church and errol barnett. can be.tburn for fast, long lasting relief, use doctor recommended gaviscon®. only gaviscon® forms a protective barrier that helps block stomach acid from splashing up- relieving the pain quickly. try fast, long lasting gaviscon®.