yeah. it s also painstaking and extremely time consuming. china is demanding that malaysia turn all over the satellite data that was used to term that everybody on flight 370 are gone. the dat is being used to narrow the search area in the southern indian ocean but what does it tell us about the fate and what may have happened. our jim clancy is tracking it throughout. he joins us live from kuala lumpur. jim, i understand there say new investigation by malaysian authorities, is that correct? reporter: right. this has got basically three investigations going on right now. the one that andrew is talking about, the search for the plane, using data, using oceanographers, and everyone else, the visual searches. that is an all-important one. then we ve got the search for motives. we ve got the search for
you know, there is a strong suspicion that there has been some sort of coverup by malaysian authorities, and this is because of press conferences where information has been given and then retracted, other days where little or no information has been shared and the delay of course in finding out what exactly happened to that flight, where exactly it went. and still, rosemary, today so many unanswered questions. we ve also been speaking to the families of course for the last few weeks and so many have told me that if i just knew exactly what happened on board, if i had more details, i d be able to understand what was going on, i d be able to explain that not just to myself, they re trying to tell this to themselves but to their other family members. some of the people on board had young children waiting, tiny
of us ever want to go through. you re shutting certain things down to isolate the problem. malaysian authorities don t know when the plane s acars system, which beams down information about the health of the plane, stopped working. the acars lost acars transmission at 1:07. we don t know when it was switched off after that. in a normal flight acars should have transmitted information about how the plane was flying, engine data, fuel burn and any maintenance discrepancies, pilots say it s abnormal to voluntarily shut acars off. and we also learned today from malaysian authorities, they have not found any evidence from any telephone company that anyone on board was trying to call or text out, but they say they re still checking into those phone records. there are millions of them. a lot of people are looking for those, too.
was ever on radar, the search zone is shifting now to the south. just 500 feet above the indian ocean a u.s. anti-submarine hunter today searching for any sign of flight 370. also today more contradictions from malaysian authorities. after first saying the plane s last automated data, or acars transmission, was turned off before the last cockpit radio call, suggesting pilot involvement, today authorities backtracked. we don t know when the acars system was restored. all we know is the last transmission and we did not receive the next transmission. so here s the latest timeline. at 12:41 a.m. saturday march 8th flight 370 left kuala lumpur bound for beijing. at 1:07 a.m. it transmitted its last automated data burst, called acars. the next acars transmission was scheduled for 30 minutes later. it never came. at 1:19 a.m. the co-pilot radioed all right. good night as malaysian air traffic controllers handed the plane over to vietnamese controllers.
zone is shifting now to the south. just 500 feet above the indian ocean a u.s. anti-submarine hunter today searching for any sign of flight 370. also today more contradictions from malaysian authorities. after first saying the plane s last automated data, or acars transmission, was turned off before the last cockpit radio call, suggesting pilot involvement, today authorities backtracked. we don t know when the acars system was restored. all we know is the last transmission and we did not receive the next transmission. so here s the latest timeline. at 12:41 a.m. saturday march 8th flight 370 left kuala lumpur bound for beijing. at 1:07 a.m. it transmitted its last automated data burst, called acars. the next acars transmission was scheduled for 30 minutes later. it never came. at 1:19 a.m. the co-pilot radioed all right. good night as malaysian air traffic controllers handed the plane over to vietnamese controllers. just two minutes after that very