airlines flight 370 the. the objects are very distinctive and definitely man made objects. reporter: among the things spotted, white objects, orange rope and a blue bag. one of the other debris satellite images picked up earlier in the week, hundreds of miles away from the new search site? it depends on who you ask. australian authorities now say after further analysis, they can t be from the plane. but the malaysians aren t as quick to discount the possibility. because of ocean drift, this new search area could still be consistent with the potential objects identified by various satellite images over the past week. reporter: the new search area was determined after information gathered from radar and satellite about the plane s speed and fuel usage led investigators to believe it traveled faster, and therefore not as far as originally thought. there are some up sides to the new search zone compared to the old one. it s closer to land, which gives
the objects are distinctiv. reporter: among the objects are a blue bag. what have the others picked up it depends on who you ask. australian authorities now say after further analysis, they can t be from the plane. but the malaysians aren t as quick to discount the possibility. because of ocean drift, this new search area could still be consistent with the potential objects identified by various satellite images over the past week. reporter: the new search area was determined after information gathered from radar and satellite about the plane s speed and fuel usage led investigators to believe it traveled faster, and therefore not as far as originally thought. there are some up sides to the new search zone compared to the old one. it s closer to land, which gives planes more time for surveillance on-site. the waters aren t as deep. and the weather, which suspended searches for two days over the past week, isn t as extreme. but there are down sides, too.
distinctive and definitely man made objects. reporter: among the things spotted, white objects, orange rope, and a blue bag. and what of the other debris satellite images picked up earlier in the week hundreds of miles away from the new search site? it depends on who you ask. australian authorities now say after further analysis, they can t be from the plane. but the malaysians aren t as quick to discount the possibility. because of ocean drift, this new search area could still be consistent with the potential objects identified by previous satellite images over the past week. reporter: the new search area was determined after information gathered from radar and satellite about the plane s speed and fuel usage led investigators to believe it traveled faster and therefore not as far as originally thought. there are some upsides to the new search zone compared to the old one. it s closer to land, which gives planes more time for
south. what this does on the earth-orbiting satellites, they don t have to look at it at such an angle. this is a lot of things going for the new area if there is something there. taking your analogy, no one is looking to sink anyone s battle ships. they are looking to find the pieces of the black box. when you talked about the older areas that we focused on because the malaysian government focused on the areas, what do the pieces of whatever it was, debris mean. listen to the transportation minster. because of ocean drift, this new search area could still be consistent with the potential objects identified by previous satellite images over the past week. so chad is standing by. let me bring in the next two guests. we have a research scientist and here with me in new york, aviation analyst. let me begin with you, jeff.
partners who continue to process data in their own countries as well as in the international working group, have further refined their data. they have also come up with new technical information, for example, on aircraft performance. yesterday, this processed in new results, indicating that mh-370 flew at a higher speed than previously thought, which in turn means it used more fuel and could not travel as far. this information was passed to rcc australia by the ntsb to help further refine and narrow the search area. the australian authorities have indicated that they have shifted the search area approximately 1,100 kilometers to the northeast. because of ocean drift, this new search area could still be consistent with the potential objects identified by various satellite images over the past week. this work is ongoing, and we can