Answers. How long did flight 370 stay in the air and how come no one noticed it. Was the transponder deliberately shut off or mechanical failure . Is there possibility a plane could have landed somewhere. A plane full of people, 239 people, doesnt just disappear. So where is flight 370 . Our big story. Its been a week almost the fate of flight 370 remains unknown. We have new information tonight. Barbaraer s starr what do you k . Reporter good evening, piers. A senior u. S. Official now telling cnn exactly what you said, there is a strong likelihood the flight is at the bottom of the indian ocean. Why do they come to this conclusion . The malaysians have now given the u. S. In the last 24 hours some access to key data, essentially pings from the airplane as it flew four to five hours out over the indian ocean to satellites. The u. S. Has analyzed all of that and now concludes that it did fly over the indian ocean. Basically these pings match the air frame, the type of engines that was
Using forensics to retrieve whatever was erased. Another piece of this puzzle, cnn learned that the planes computer was likely reprogrammed to change course to take the left turn at least 12 minutes before the last verbal communication with the cockpit when the copilot radio air Traffic Controller said all right, good night. A senior official said the search has now zoned in on this corridor that you are looking at. The search conditions are goo good. As they were flying through. There were no results. Today the search area has been refined. Look at this one woman. Tensions at a distraught mother screaming for information. She had to be dragged away. Folks, we are in day 13. Many of the families are still living out of this hotel where the briefings are held, waiting for news that the plane has been found. Lets talk about the facts. What we know. Out of our washington, d. C. Bureau. Etch, me more about how the fbi now is getting involved. The investigators have been going through the s
Airport. The pilots aborted the takeoff when the airbus a 320 blew a tire and the nose gear collapsed. No one was injured. More on flight 370. This is cnn breaking news. This is piers morgan live tonight breaking news on flight 370. This time its from the u. S. Government. Administration officials tell Cnns Barbara Starr theres quite significant likelihood the plane is on the bottom of the indian ocean. They also say there are indications the plane may have flown for hours longer than we thought. Malaysian authorities report they have multiple pings of data that were transmitted from the plane to satellites four hours after the communications went dead. Communications on the plane were shut down 14 minutes apart. When it comes to this mystery there are more questions than answers. How long did flight 370 stay in the air and how come no one noticed it. Was the transponder deliberately shut off or mechanical failure . Is there possibility a plane could have landed somewhere. A plane full
Youre in the situation room. Lets get to the breaking news. China has said one of it satellites has found a crash area of what appear to be large floating objects. We have the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver. Our correspondents are standing by along with top analysts and experts. Lets go straight to jim sciutto with the latest. What were we learning . A Remarkable Development in six confusing days of misdirection. They look very small but they are very large. 43 feet by 49 feet one of them, 46 by 62 feet, another one 79 feet by 72 feet. A flatbed truck is 48 feet long, a mobile home 28 feet long so these are big pieces floating in the water. Let me show you on the map where they were found. Youll remember the flight took off from kuala lumpur on its way to beijing. This was the point of last contact when its transponder was turned off. And youll remember this was the area they were searching in in those early days but not finding anything. And then youll remember they had this ra
You know, and especially when youre working in a company that when you do your job you have it on your chest. You know . I think that is hard. Like i got to wear a suit and tie the other night. But i had a sense that that was very hard for the players. You know, they had to wear that. I think that was hard for them. I really do. Doc, you said excuse me, you said that you were there film, and then you told them about the decision adam silver had handed down and you said what you needed to say to them. What did you say to them . What did you tell them . Well, that will be private. A lot of it was just how much i admired them in how they tried to handle this. And just to let them know that this was some closure. But there is still work to do. And you know, i just thought that they set a very good example around the league on how they conducted themselves. Doc, you said you expected an amazing crowd tonight. Couple of nights ago you have you gotten enough feedback between now and then . Ye