Were 17 days ago. Hold on. Something new, though, spotted in the water. French Officials Say one of their satellites picked up what might be debris in the southern indian ocean. Airborne search crews are heading to that area to check that out. The malaysian government today cast doubt on the theory that someone punched new flight directions into the airplane in midflight. They say the last communication from the flight deck showed a normal programmed route to beijing. Flight 370s intended destination. That brings us to the question. Question number one in your week ahead. How does malaysias update affect the ever evolving timeline from Malaysia Airline flight 370. I want to bring in cnn aviation analyst, miles obrien. Also a pilot. Miles, break this down for us if you will. The update of the acars data, does that have any significant meaning to you . Its a big deal for us on the outside of the investigation. Weve been operating under the assumption for quite some time based on obviousl
Beacon cuts off forever. But what if the plane is sitting on the bottom of the ocean with time running out . Well look at an underwater retrieval. What if something happened to incapacitate everyone on board and the plane flew itself on auto pilot until it ran out of fuel . Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. Two major developments this hour in the now twoweek search for flight 370 and the 239 souls on board. One involves that possible debris spotted on satellite images. The other involves the data erased from the Flight Simulator seized from the captains home. U. S. Officials say the fbi team examining that data is confident that agents will be able to recover at least some of the information. The malaysians saw nothing of concern on the hard drive but our source says they could not access everything on it and its not clear whether the malaysians even have the technology to do it. And while the fbi works on that, searchers are following what australias Prime Minister called toda
Preprogrammed the turn as part of a normal contingency plan to be executed in case of mechanical problems with the plane. Thats the latest on many Key Developments today. Were going to focus on it with our team of experienced pilots in and out of the Flight Simulator. The search area, instead of shrinking is just growing again today, nearly as big as the continental United States. More on all of it tonight starting with our kyung lah reporting from kuala lumpur in malaysia. Kyung . Reporter the investigation into why Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished took another strange turn today. Officials believe the jets Navigation System was intentionally altered, saying someone in the cockpit with knowledge of how it works entered in new coordinates to steer them way off course. Its unclear whether the changes occurred before takeoff or during the flight. Police also continued to investigate both pilots, their homes, personal computers and emails were all searched for anything suspicious. Bu
Southern indian ocean ranging in size from 3 feet to 75 feet. It turned up on satellite images from a French Defense firm on sunday. Theyre digging into that and every other new detail of the information with my experts. Our big story remains flight 370. Were covering every ainngle. Its 9 00 a. M. In perth. Tell me what the expectation is today. Weve seen again 122 new images potentially of plane wreckage. Do they think they can get anywhere near where they think they were . Reporter well, they certainly are hoping to. Theyve got 11 aircraft up in the air today. Just about an hour ago the chinese jet took off. Were expecting another five civilian aircraft to take off in the next few hours. Then the u. S. Military planes will go out. Its critical that they try and get to this area. Theyre going to cover two sectors with about 78,000 square kilometers in all. Its critical they get low enough to see this debris and actually identify, to eyeball it and see what it is. Whether it could be a
Reporters today his confidence remains high despite the many challenges. Tony abbott described a multinational search as a massive, massive task. And the search planes, theyre at it again. Theyre up in the air again departing from perth in western australia. Today marks day 37, 37 days since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished. Live now to perth, australia, cnns Michael Holmes. Michael, the Prime Minister tony abbott says he is still confident about the search. What about the search crews, do they share that optimism . Well, they share a determination to keep on going. I think its fair to say, don. Optimism about finding wreckage now certainly on the surface, boy, thats got to be wearing thin. I mean, just imagine, were into the sixth week now and they still havent found one piece of wreckage. They are continuing to tow that ping locator on the ocean shield vessel and that smaller search area. Smaller than its been. Theres also the echo there, a british ship that sends down its own s