Cockpit. Good night, malaysian 370. And it isnt who they first thought. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with new clues in the search for flight 370, new details about its final moments. Here are the latest developments. A search plane has recorded a possible ping from the airliners black boxes. The signal was detected by sonobuoys that were dropped by the plane. Analysts are studying the acoustic da acoustic data. Sources say that flight 370 disappeared from military data after it shade the sharp turn back over the malay peninsula. They say this plane must have dropped in altitude between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. And as aircraft continues to go on another search for debris, our analysts and reporters are standing by here in the United States as well as around the world with the kind of special coverage that only cnn can deliver. Michael holmes is in perth, australia. Lets go there first for the very latest. Michael . Reporter wolf, a dozen of these sonobuoys have be
Debris floating on the surface. It is probably the best lead we have right now. The American Navy and a group of 18 ships scouring the area. Aircraft taking to the skies. Storms at sea, though, hampering efforts. Dealing with white caps, bigger waves. Tough to see things. Ships move more slowly. Families just finishing up a press conference. Should a miracle be required . Thats what were hoping for. As malaysia manages expectations. For the families around the world, the one piece of information that they want most is the information we just dont have, the location of mh370. Here live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining me. Im carol costello. This is a special edition of newsroom. This morning, breaking news and a possible big break in the search for that missing plane. The latest lead satellite images of two large objects floating nearly 1500 miles off australias southwest coast. One of the most remote areas on earth. The debris, one large, one smaller, is
Connected to the missing plane. Officials also say a Chinese Air Force plane spotted several floating white objects earlier today. Its not clear yet if those are connected to the plane either. And now the task is finding out if any of these new, potential clues are indeed linked to the planes disappearance. We have our teams around the world digging into every angle. Will ripley is live for us in perth, australia, and rene marsh live in washington, d. C. So, will, let me begin with you. Whats the latest on the search efforts, trying to confirm these reported sightings and detections . Well, yeah. 3 00 a. M. Here in perth and we know that search effort, the Aerial Search effort, will be ramping up here at peairs pearc base. We dont know will the planes go to new area, outside the designated search zone when the chinese ship supposedly detected some sort of a ping. Big question, we dont know why they were looking in this particular place. One question were hoemping to get answered from t
Lithium ion batteries in a u. P. S. Cargo plane. We also know lithium battery components sparked a series of fires on board several boeing 787s. Even with this knowledge, the airline is playing this news down. And the questions swirl around what was in the cargo hold of the plane. We are learning more about the phone call made by the pilot. Authorities are looking into reports he made a call from his cell phone eight minutes before this flight took off. Investigators are trying to find out who might have been on the other end of the call. Lets go to cnns evan perez in washington. Lets hone in on the batteries. What more do we know about that . They were looking at the situation from the day flight 370 disappeared because they saw on the manifest that was provided by malaysian authorities there was a shipment of lithium batteries. We dont know who the shipper was and where it was going. They dont believe anything nepharious was at issue. Anything suspicious in the batteries being there.
China plans to send out ships to try to find this new object. In the meantime, the search for those other two pieces of or these other objects, i should say, goes on. Were talking about six planes scouring the area for a third day today. No traces were found, however. They came back, at least a kouchl couple of the planes, and found nothing significant. Weather is deteriorating though in the search area. Australian official says the operation going to continue despite that. Also multinational flotilla forming a search. A norwegian cargo ship is already there. Diverted from its onlial end point. Austral australia, malaysia is spending planes to the planets most remote areas. The revelation of the satellite images came as flight cruise wrapped up, as i said, this third day of searches as they look for the other two pieces that we were talking about. Those spotted by an australian satellite but were in a whole new phase of this now because, as you said, were 75 miles away looking at somet