resulting in the death of about six u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. moving up the chain of command, special forces figured out roughly where he was and began drawing up mission plans to do a clandesti clandestine commando raid to take him, everyon figuring out the number of soldiers guarding him. those plans were shelved because there was a sense that the price was too high for going after someone who was deemed by the pentagon to have walked away from his post. you have to ask yourself if an american backpacker who wasn t involved in the u.s. military had gone missing in afghanistan around the same time and found to be held by the taliban, would the most elite special u.s. forces launch a raid and get
reported discoveries by the chinese changed the mission plans at all? reporter: they don t seem to have. certainly the planes are up in the air. you ve got about a dozen planes that are flying now. still scouring vast search zone to the west of western australia. i was getting my directions confused a bit there. they re still up in the skies. they re still scouring that area of ocean. some, you know, 80,000 square miles or so. they ve identified a few areas that they re focusing on . seems that none of them at the moment are the area where the chinese vessel identified those apparent pings. what the australians are saying, leading this search effort, remember? they re saying they don t have enough information at this point to commit resources to that area which is formally outside the actual search zone at the moment. they ve been trying to contact the vessel that actually detected these binges. they ve been unsuccessful in