search in the southern indian ocean where they have picked up some possible pinging sounds they continue to explore and now our nic robertson has new information. he is live in kuala lumpur for us from there. nic? natalie, we have new information about the flight path of malaysian airlines flight 370. we understand from a senior malaysian government official that when the aircraft took off, we know that this the aircraft took that left turn from its original track on its way to beijing. we now know that after it flew across malaysia it then skirted around indonesia and indonesian air space before getting on the southern tract to the southern indian ocean that the inmarsat handshake data was providing investigators. so what we now know from this
like a drone, or towed along on a sled. we call that a towed array. and we haven t gone to that phase yet, because we haven t had that initial starting point. what happens when the batteries for those flight data recorders, the cockpit voice recorder, are dead, and the pingers the pinging is no longer going? where do the investigators, the search operation go from there? well, you see each day that the search area is shifting around. and that s because data that s being gathered from the aerial process, from the satellite process, and from reinterpreting the handshake data is being reanalyzed and reinforming the search area. so it s not game over if the pingers are not located. now some believe the plane may have actually gone in full, into the water, sort of like sully sullenberger s plane, miracle on the hundred dollars son, but then sunk. if there is a plane intact at the bottom of the indian ocean, how hard would it be to find that? if you know where it is, if if you
difficult search ever undertaken. the most difficult search ever undertaken. but i can assure people that the best brains in the world are working on this. and every day, working on the basis of just small pieces of information, we are putting the jigsaw together. ron mccallum helped lead the search for air france 447. good morning. good morning. okay. so they shifted the search zone a little north, but not much. at this point, does it matter? oh, yes, i think it does matter. it shows that there s a willingness to take into account the latest information that they ll be getting from reinterpretation, or reanalysis of the handshake data. but also they are building on
search, 128,000 square mile area, this might not be the right location? this the thing. we really don t know. until we find something clearly tagged back to the aircraft, we don t know i have faith in the people that have been running retro navigation exercise with the handshake data. obviously that steered them down to this corner of the world. i trust in those people, the technical abilities. at the moment that s all we ve got to go on. the use of this u.s. pinger on an australian ship, we ve heard many experts say you ve got to be on top of an impact zone, on top of where this tail where the pinger and flight data recorder located in order for it to be used. is it your feeling perhaps a secret of surveillance has