Wing. Australia and u. S. Aircraft reached the area today but so far have found nothing. Visibility was limited because of rain and clouds. But search planes are due to return in the area at sunrise, thats just about five hours from now. And a norwegian cargo ship is continuing to hunt for the debris around the clock. Officials stress the objects may just be ocean garbage, like a container that may have fallen off of a ship. But they also say the sighting is the best lead theyve gotten so far. Our experience is that there is debris out there from ships for example falling overboard and other objects of that type. On this particular occasion the size and the fact that there are a number located in the same area really makes it worth looking at. But i dont want to speculate about what they are until we get there and we see them. The search crews will face serious challenges including the weather. Jim schutto is joining us now. Jim, exactly where are those two objects locate snd. Lets put
some have suggested even if it were cruising on automatic pilot, say the pilots were disabled for whatever reason, runs out of fuel, it could still glide for a while before it actually went into the water. yeah. aircraft are inherently stable. but obviously gravity is a very large pull. so had that scenario been the case, then the aircraft would have kept flying. but it would have glided and it would have had a fairly decent glide angle. and that distance would have increased. does this tell us let s say this is the debris, peter, from the plane. does it give us an indication whether it was a mechanical failure or human being that caused this. it does not. we need more information. we don t know why this aircraft ended up in that position. if it ends up in the south indian ocean, why did it go there? we just don t know yet. and we re not going to know just because we got some surface so not going to know until they find the flight data recorders, voice recorders, so-calle
new and credible information has come to light in relation to the search for malaysia airlines flight mh-370 in the southern indian ocean. the australian maritime safety authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search. following specialist analysis of this satellite imagery, two possible objects related to the search have been identified. so, peter, that s a pretty strong statement. he seems to be fairly confident that this might be the real deal. do you think it s wise to raise those kinds of hopes right now before they know for sure? or should they have waited to get definitive word that this is debris from the plane? i think there s a great deal of pressure to move this investigation forward. and i don t think the prime minister would have made those statements if the ministry hadn t assured him that they
to be brought in, whether they need experts from the software company. but as far as the degree of the data that was deleted, whether the captain, you know, or someone else used sophisticated software security technology that would overwrite the data and so forth, we should be able to find the degree of deletions relatively soon, today, the next day, couple days. but as far as what s on that hard drive, that could take much longer. it could take weeks. we just don t know at this point because we are still in the early stages how long it will take. but as one of my sources said it could take some time. all right. pamela brown reporting for us. thank you. let s get some analysis on all these late-breaking developments. joining us our cnn aviation analyst, former ntsb manager peter gol, mark weiss and tom fuentes, former director at the fbi. peter, let s get back to the debris. it looks like a pretty promising
how long before images from repositioned high def satellites are available? i don t know that. it takes at least 24 to 36 hours. you don t? agree. it s a couple of days. it could be a while. why are transponders able to be disabled t? everything on a plane is redid you not ant. there there is a fear that there may be an electrical short circuit and something that you may have to be disabled for. this will cause the industry and the professionals to rethink that whole approach. keep the transponders on. you can turn them off and you shouldn t be allowed to turn them off in a cockpit. you turn them off on the ground. that s different. there has to be a way to formulate it so it can t be manually turned off. you can do that with a squat switch. that s an enormous amount of