flight 370 compels rivals across asia to come together as partners. in an area in southeast asia fighting over rocks in the middle of the sea and now working together, i think that is a great achievement. reporter: from the sea of japan and malacca straits and oil and gas riches and fishing rights are crushed in the 24-hour news cycle. social media bursts with the missing airlines with 239 passengers captivates the world. several are reacting to the pressure put on by the public to do something about locating this plane. reporter: do something. planes and ships from china, japan, south korea, australia, new zealand and the united states. we are now hearing from one of the pilots who returned moments ago from searching for mh-370 over the western coast of australia, in perth, australia. let s listen in to what he has
controller could have landed the aircraft. reporter: right now, auto pilot systems are manually switched on and off at the discretion of the pilots in the air. auto pilot cannot land or takeoff. this potential solution could present a new problem. this is not necessarily hack proof. not hack proof. terrorists may be able to get into the data stream and force the plane to land or do whatever. reporter: has boeing advanced the idea from ten years ago? is the company still testing it out? we tried to get information from boeing on the project. the company would not speak to us about it. brian todd, cnn, washington. that is cnn newsroom. i m errol barnett. thank you for spending your weekend with us. for you in the u.s., new day saturday is next. for everybody else, cold war is next.
flight 370 and not a single trace of the boeing 777 has been found. authorities on our focus on the search area in the southern indian ocean more than 1,000 kilometers northeast of the previous one. at this moment, planes and ships are hoping to relocate objects spotted friday in the new zone. a new image captured by a new zealand military plane. this aired on chinese television and shows an unidentified object that a ship will attempt to locate and take aboard. chinese news agency spotted three objects in the southern indian ocean. a pilot back from the search zone said as of now, no objects have been confirmed as parts of the missing airlines. malaysia s acting transport minister made a comment of hope after meeting with the passengers today. for investigators to get the clearest picture of what happened to flight 370, they
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
welcome back. you are watching cnn newsroom. i m errol barnet. let s get to our top story. the missing malaysian airlines. authorities are focused on a new search areas in the indian ocean. 1,000 kilometers of the northeast and closer to perth, australia. planes and ships are hoping to relocate objects spotted friday in the new zone. in this image you are seeing now, captured by a new zealand military plane on friday, aired on chinese television. shows an unidentified object. meantime, chinese official news agency says they spotted three objects in the indian ocean, but a pilot that just returned to