Is the huge tree. Or everyone is convinced the finally getting some clue to what could happen about Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared without a trace over the weekend. The malaysian military says it has data that shows the plane significantly veered off course before he went off the radar. It basically did a u turn and headed to work the malacca straits where the plane and on down the scope of this search has now expanded both on cn on land that far be on the regional flight path this is toms goldman instead he simmered in the same time one of Defense Ministry canes to see the malacca straits for the missing boeing seven seven seven. Thats the region the latest in a tree now says the plane had lost radar contact before vanishing. This supports the theory that the pundits tend amount of that country to beijing. Why did this so that in the case is still unclear. Four days after the plane disappeared it interpol initially suspected of linked to to live in eagle pass and is now in
A planned oneonone meeting at the white house with president obama. We get more from cnns Becky Anderson. It is the gold embossed invitation seldom refused. A dinner date at the white house. Yet, of the six arab countries invited to sit down with the president , only two are sending their heads of state, qatar and q 8. Ill health was always going to keep oman and the aue Sheikh Ka Alisha fa away. The biggest no show is saudi Arabias King Salman aziz. Saudi Officials Say hes staying in riyadh to oversee a ceasefire supposed to go in effect in yemen tuesday. The white house has sought to downplay any rift with riyadh or the other gulf countries, noting that saudis crown prince and his defense minister would be at the meetings but that hasnt stopped speculation that monarch is snubbing the president , but a closer look at those who will be in the room may paint a more nuanced picture. The gulf region is currently undergoing a generational transfer of power. Meaning leaders like the Saudi
For Malaysia Airline flight 370 flight 370. A fourth week begins for one of the biggest aviation mysteries of all time. A new search area is focused in the indian ocean. It is 1,000 kilometers from the original search area. In fact, take a look at this image. It was captured by a new Zealand Military plane on friday. Aired on Chinese Television. Shows an unidentified object that the ship will attempt to locate and take aboard. Meantime, the Chinese Official News Agency says the aircraft spotted three, quote, suspicious objects in the indian ocean. The acting minister made a comment of hope. He made that statement after meeting with families of passengers. I understand the appeal and peace for the family and hoping against hope, no matter how remote, of course, we are praying and we are going to continue our search for the possible survivors. But what they want is a commitment on our part to continue the search and that i have given not only on behalf on the malaysian government, but so
Far. What is intriguing is the location. According to the chinese its within a 20 kilometer or 12 1 2 mile radius of this spot on the map which corresponds closely to the point where controllers lost contact with the airliners radar transponder. We should stress again, this is very preliminary information. However i it may help narrow back down a search effort that grew enormously today. More from pamela brown. Reporter these Satellite Photos released by the chinese punctuate a day of case of and missed messages. Five days into the search investigators are still struggling to locate the missing 777, expanding the search area to 27,000 square nautical miles. The way forward is to be analyzing both the civilian and military data in the of the the east or west. Reporter 12 countries assisting with search operations. But complicating efforts are a string of confusion and conflicting statements by malaysian authorities. Military officials there now appear to be backing off an earlier sugges
Too surprising that they didnt find anything, that the bluefin21 didnt find anything during that search. It really only lasted about two hours on the ocean floor, covering what must have been a fraction of the 15squaremile area that was designated for the days mission, that area being the most probable place for the black box, that according to officials based on those pings that were heard last week. This is going to be a slow and painstaking process, that according to officials here. Nothing happens quickly in waters of this depth. And what happened in terms of the bluefin21 in its First Mission is it went down and it entered waters that were deeper than its capacity of some 2. 8 miles, and it was simply then just resurfaced. And according to the company, that its programmed to do that, its programmed to behave conservatively. So, we understand that technicians aboard the ocean shield now are adjusting that search field to more shallow waters, waters that the bluefin21s more capable