Objects, photographed by a commercial satellite. Australias Prime Minister today defended the decision to announce the discovery. Also reiterated the objects may not be from the missing plane. Also, malaysian authorities now say theyre aware of news reports, the pilot the of flight 370 placed a cell phone call only minutes before the plane took off. They say they have passed that information on to investigators. Military surveillance planes and commercial jet two merchant ships spent hours combing through the search area today because of the remote location, planes can only stay over the area for about two or maximum three hours before they have to return to their base in perth, australia, about 1,500 miles away. Our Andrew Stevens on the scene in perpth, when the first plane came in after a disappointing search. Reporter its day two now of the australianled search for missing flight 370, deep in the southern parts of the indian ocean. And what were looking at here is the first of the
266 still missing. The captain and two crew members now face multiple criminal charges. A live report is just ahead from jindo, south korea, where families are Holding Vigil for their loved ones. And the challenges facing the rescue divers as they look for victims there. A western official tells cnn u. S. Troops will be training in eastern europe. A company of 150 troops will northbound poland and another company headed to estonia and exercises take place in the coming weeks as part of an ongoing operation and comes two days into an International Pact to ease tensions in ukraine but so far no indication of any progress on the ground. Prorussian sprastiseparatists a refuse to go leave the buildings and lay down their weapons. 40,000 Russian Troops are across border in ukraine and putin says they are needed because of ukraines political instability. This is the first time russia has said that deployment was for anything other than for military exercises. We want to get the latest from in
Hello, everyone, great to see you. Im john berman. Im michaela pereira. I thought you were going to start singing together again. Its been a long time. We begin with divers racing to force their way into that sunkle ferry, its blue and while hull has slipped beneath the oceans surface. About 270 passengers, most of them teenagers, still missing. Cnn now has a transcript of the conversation between the ferry and the vessel Traffic Center. It begins at 8 55 a. M. Wednesday with the ferrys distress call. This is the ferry, please notify the coast guard, our ship is in danger. The ship is rolling right now. Theres more back and forth in a full five minutes later at 9 00 a. M. , the ferry reports this. This is the ferry, currently the body of the ship is tilted to the left, containers fell over, too. The dispatcher replies, okay, there are no damages to people . And the ferry, currently its impossible to confirm. It is impossible to move as the body of the ship is tilted. Then the Traffic C
Came to an end. We were able to identify 122 potential objects. We have now had four separate satellite leads from australia, from china and france showing possible debris. It is now impaerative that we link the debris to mh370. Reporter as special equipment from the u. S. Arrives in perth australia. The countrys Prime Minister voicing optimism that something will turn up. A considerable amount of debris has been sighted in the area where the flight was last recorded. Bad weather has so far prevented any of it being recovered, but we are confident that some will be. Reporter that includes a blue fin underwater vehicle also a tow pinger locater used to detect signals from the data recorder. Dedicated to todays search at least five ships from 12 countries. They scour more than 600,000 square miles of ocean. This as new information emerges about flight 370s timeline. Experts say new satellite data indicates the plane may have sent out a partial signal around 8 19 the morning it disappeare
First we want to bring you the latest information on flight 370. In the last hour weve learned that france is sending investigators to malaysia today to help sift through the clues. A top military official in india says that country has temporarily ended its search for the plane while malaysia reviews the massive deployments from 25 countries. The search area now covers large areas of land including extremely remote regions. Crews are looking along two corridors, one to the south, the other to the north, reaching all the way um to kazakhstan. Authorities say theyre examining a Flight Simulator taken from the home of the pilot. A u. S. Official tells cnn u. S. Intelligence is leaning toward the theory that the pilots are responsible. Satellite signals picked up on flight 370 for seven hours after the last contact with the pilots. But malaysian officials announced today it is possible the last satellite contact could have come from the plane on the ground. Atika shubert joins us live fro