And what next . A plane was swallowed by one of the most vast underwater areas in the world. The search to find the black box before the battery runs out. Welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto filling in for jake tapper. The 239 people aboard malaysian flight 370 has pleaded for answer. Much of the world is mystified by the planes disappearance and frustrated by the uncertainty. Officials now believe the worse. The airline telling them, quote, none of those on board survived. Now that malaysian officials believe that the flight ended over the indian ocean. The backlash has been intent. A committee representing 154 chinese and taiwanese accuse the officials of deceiving the entire world with what they call a coverup. It reads in part, quote, such despicable acts not only emotionally and physically fooled and destroyed us families of the 154 passengers, but also mislead us. If our 154 relatives aboard lost their lives the malaysian military and government are the real murderers that killed
Racing for answers, through pretty nasty weather against deadlines driven by shifting ocean currents and approaching storm systems to the remaining juice in the batteries of the boeing 777s data recorders. Were learning new information tonight about what got investigators so interested in this particular debris and why tonight some analysts now have greater confidence that this time, after so many false leads, this could be the real thing. First to kyung lah in australia. What is the latest right now . Do we know how the search efforts are going so far, kyung . Reporter the very latest we heard from Australian Military officials who are not authorized to speak to the media, a short time ago we have heard that indeed two of the planes are up in the air. They are racing to that search area right now. There are two more scheduled to leave from this air base later today. We dont know exactly when theyre going to leave. We cant hear them from this entrance. But they leave from the center of
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