satellites to look for wreckage. along with a camera on the international space station. besides these photos released from the chinese government, the pentagon is checking its satellites. but below the waves, the plane itself could be calling if anyone is close enough and listening. there is the acoustic pinger which is on the flight data recorder. but that requires that you have a basically a microphone that will work in the water. most ships don t have the right equipment so you have to get ships to the area that have the right equipment to start looking for it. so the longer it takes for them to find the plane, the harder this search becomes. currents and winds plays into this in a big way. so if the plane is in the water, currents are moving it x many miles per hour, multiply that by 24 hours and multiply that again by six days and you have a search area that has expanded hundreds of miles every day that goes by, carol. renee marsh, reporting live
families of those missing. paul weeks was on flight 370 heading to a job in mongolia. before boarding, he handed his wife his wedding ring and watch to give to their sons if anything should happen to him. his wife spoke to piers morgan live last night. i m praying that, you know, i can give that back to him. so i can hold on to it because there s no finality to it. we re not getting any information. the hunt for the plane and the answers continues. jim clancy joins us now from the malaysian capital of kuala lumpur. a question for you about who is in charge of this investigation. it seems like the military is taking the lead. oh, my goodness. jim clancy is frozen. his shot is frozen. we re having technical difficulties, obviously. we ll get back to him as soon as we can. the malaysian military does appear to be in charge of the investigation. along with civilian authorities. we re going to sort that out a
about it. here is what we know. we know the plane took off. right? we know that it flew for some 45 minutes to an hour roughly n then we know it completely vanished somewhere around here. now we know from last night the chinese took some pictures from somewhere over here, which they say they should have never released. those were some 140 miles away. that automatically raised questions about, could it really be that far away at the time they took these pictures or said they took these pictures? maybe ocean currents could affect where the wreckage would be and that would be true no matter where the wreckage might go down. if this plane crashed you d have to look at currents especially after six days. things moving around. that sort of thing. but the real question was, could that piece of debris that we saw, that tiny thing there, come from a plane this size. well, that s not so tiny. really if you take all three pieces and average them out, about as big as half of a basketball court. so
nice to have you here. let s talk about this wall street journal report. here s the scenario. supposedly a u.s. source told the wall street journal that the maker of the plane s engine, rolls royce, received pulses of data from the plane s engines after it disappeared from the radar. which means, i suppose, it could have been flying for up to four hours after it disappeared from the radar. i mean, what do you think about that? is that a plausible scenario? well, it s factually possible. the plane, the 777 is like the 340. the airbus 340 was the plane on air france 447. that plane did the same thing and in the aftermath of that, we had a print out. it s actually a data printout that shows these systems status reports is what they are. they are supposed to go back to the airline. they go back to the engine manufacturers. 777 is the same way. so it is factually possible. but it is not factually possible if what happened when the transponder stopped is there was
2500 miles from its last known spot. that stretches from northwest india all the way to mainland australia. newsroom continues now. good morning. i m carol costello. thanks so much for joining me. it is day six in the search for flight 370. still no sign of debris from the malaysian airline. but a new report from the wall street journal suggests the plane could have flown for four hours after its last contact. if that s true, that could widen the search area by thousands of miles. we want to talk about that possibility with mary schiavo and tom foreman. tom, i want to start with you. where are we talking about? give use lay out the landscape for us, if you will. well, i ll tell you this about the landscape, it s changing every single day. let s bring in the map and talk about what we know about this tragic story and the huge mystery that continues to swirl