reasons. if flight 8501 did crash, it s likely in the java sea. flight 370, which has never been located, is suspected of crashing in the indian ocean. a large and deep area of water. it s still bizarre. and, again, we must must recognize that there are some key differences here. malaysia 370 all its equipment effectively failed to communicate 20 minutes after it took off and then as time went on, we knew through military radar traces and through the satellite analysis that the jet was still airborne for another seven hours. i mean that has conspiracy theory and sinister written all over it and i can t explain in my experience why it would go 140 degrees off route and then come down the west coast and head into a location which has
looking for it using these sub surface or underwater vehicles, makes it incredibly difficult but if you look at malaysia 370 and remember where the satellite analysis took us down about 1300 miles off the coast. we re looking at depths of 15,018,000 feet which are incredibly hard to search. the java sea on average is 150 meters and we have a fairly good idea of what the coordinates were for the last known position of this flight. which makes it a little bit easier because what the investigators and search and rescue guys are going to have to do is come up with baseline assumptions. they re going to have to look at an assumption on speed and altitude. they ll put them in various trenches they ll come up with an enturns and that will allow them to look at a fuel burn and eventually get a range.
news deck. where do they search now? it s a big ocean. australiaing deputy prime minister is still confident the final resting place of the plane is in the southern indian ocean and specifically along the course that s been indicated by the satellite analysis. he is referring to the arcs you see right here. specifically what is being called the seventh ping line, referring to the final so-called satellite handshake with the plane. as for the area ruled out, here s what he had to say. we concentrated the search in that area because the pings or the information received was the best information available at the time and that s all you can do in circumstances like this to follow the very best leads. well, right now the search the underwater portion of the search is on hold while they bring in powerful sonar equipment and mapping the ocean floor in the area. now these families keep having to live this hell. i was talking about the pings
washington as well as around the world with the kind of special coverage that only cnn can deliver. let s begin with our aviation correspondent rene marsh with the very latest. rene? a sudden shift in focus. again, this search zone has moved and authorities say that s thanks to a credible lead. that lead? more analysis of existing data with an entirely new search zone in play, does that mean crews wasted time searching the wrong area for more than a week? the new zone, roughly 1,023 square miles, larger than the state of new york and 300 miles closer to the australian coastline a shorter trip for search planes. this is our best estimate of the area in which the aircraft is likely to have crashed into the ocean. reporter: so why change everything three weeks after the plane disappeared? more radar and satellite analysis makes investigators
debris? well, no. i appreciate the caution they are using here. we have to be very careful we don t put too much hope into thinking this is, in fact, the site. identifying these pieces as objects i think accomplishes that. i do believe it s an anomaly to have a collection of objects, shall we say in the ocean like this, the area we believe the aircraft may have gone down. i think we re being a little cautious here. now that we re narrowing down the area to look, if we can get some cooperation with the weather in that area, i think we have a good chance of identifying those objects. as an investigator and somebody who knows much more about this than just a layperson, is it also important to couple that information with seeing these objects with the fact this is the range in which the fuel may have run out? exactly. the immarsat satellite analysis that the engineers and mathematicians did put the aircraft in this area, that this