Week. Youre live in the cnn newsroo newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thanks for joining me. Day 35. The search area shrinks, but a sobering reality settles in. It may not shrink anymore. Five weeks and the batteries on the flights socalled black boxes are dead or dieing. Still this mornings upbeat assessment is encouraging. We have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh370. Were now getting to the stage where the signal from what we are very confident is the black box is starting to fade and we are hoping to get as much information as we can before the signal finally expires. Cnns Matthew Chance is at the heart of the search in perth, australia. Good morning, matthew. Reporter good morning, carol. Thats right. The search is continuing. Remember its a 24hour search now. Even though darkness has fallen here in perth and in the area a thousand miles off the coast of perth, as the searc
Majority of nationalities on board. Incredibly interested and have a great stake in the progress of the Search Operations, trying to locate that missing airliner. And i think that even though tony abbott was cautious in what he said he went a little further than any australian official has so far done in terms of describing the progress. Take a listen. We are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some kilometers. Our confidence in the approximate position of the black box is not the same as recovering wreckage from almost 4 1 2 kilometers beneath the sea or finally determining all that happened on that flight. But what Angus Houston, the man in charge with overseeing and coordinating the multinational search effort, he down played the Prime Ministers remarks saying essentially theres been no major breakthrough. However, he said that the search area has significantly narrowed down to about 18,000 square miles, which is still a big patch of ocean,
The search area has changed dramatically. This is a huge change. It was 29,000 square miles. Its now 22,000 square miles. That drop in just one day. The search area is now roughly the size of west virginia. Yes, still huge, but remember, we were talking about a search area originally bigger than the continental united states. And they have picked up new signals that they say could be from the planes black boxes. It had been two days, as you know where they said look, were feeling worse about this and worse about this. We havent reacquired the signal. Now they have two more times. Could this be it . The question is time is running out. It is day 34 of the search. The batteries in the black boxes are fade mortgage as each day passes. Its pretty incredible if in fact they are still working at this point. The australian ship ocean shield i was just showing you first picked up two sets of underwater pings on saturday, and now reacquired the signals twice australia time tuesday. All four sig
Feet. It disappeared, then reappeared on radar, they say. Was this to avoid detection . Is this proof of a criminal act . Were live with all the breaking details. Another change. Investigators now say it was the pilot, not the copilot, who uttered the last words from the cockpit. So what does that tell us . And a new ping coming from the ocean floor leading authorities to narrow the search zone even more as they try to zero in on those critical black boxes from flight 370. Hello, everyone, im john berman. Michaela is off today. Its 11 00 a. M. In the east. 8 00 a. M. Out west. And we begin this hour with the breaking news on several fronts in the mystery of flight 370. Cnn sources say after the plane took that mysterious left turn, it disappeared from radar, flying, they say, about 120 nautical miles before radar, they claim, before over malaysia before reappearing. Was it deliberately flown as low as 4,000 feet to avoid radar detection . Thats a key question. Plus, malaysia just now c
After the plane vanished. Sources also tell us that investigators are confident it was the flights captain who radioed in that last message and there was no sign of stress or possible third party when he said good night malaysian flight 370. This morning search crews discover a possible new signal, raising hopes that they may be closing in on the flights socalled black boxes which could explain exactly what happened. Lets begin with that new signal. Cnns will ripley is in perth, australia. Good morning, will. Reporter good morning, carol. We know that Data Analysis is happening as we speak on that fifth possible ping that was detected, not by that towed pinger locater. This was actually detected by whats called the sonar bu es. The Australian Military was dropping these into the ocean. It has an under water microphone that goes down about 1,000 feet. It listens as well. And were told one of these microphones picked up what they believe could be a signal from an in flight data recorder.