Moved to a new area of the indian ocean. This new area, 680 miles to the northeast. This is based on what australian Officials Say is new, credible evidence. Four aircraft already over the new search zone has since returned and all ten planes and six ships now have new marching orders and are on the way there. Theyre now searching somewhere else entirely. Why . Well, new radar analysis suggests the plane was traveling faster than previous estimates. That means it was burning more fuel and would have flown a shorter distance in the indian ocean. Lets get to cnns Andrew Stevens. Hes live in perth, australia. Shifting the focus of that search, andrew. This is going to allow the australiabased aircraft more time over the zone. Its actually closer to the continent, isnt it . Reporter yeah, thats a very important point, christine. They are quite a lot closer, about 1,800 kilometers, versus 2,500 kilometers away from this new search site. The planes can get there quicker, and as important, mo
Many people might say why didnt we know this before . The australian investigators say this is not untypical for an investigation like this which is such a mystery. We keep getting more information. You keep refining the information you have. You keep putting it into other models and getting toward different conclusions. This has been happening in this search zone. We started in the South China Sea. So it continues to narrow down. It is still a 300,000 climt search zone. Ships wont get there until tomorrow night. Planes are on the scene now. The latest heading out. It was a p8 arriving from the u. S. Navy. Well be waiting for information from that. The first plane has returned. No word on whether theyve seen anything. I should add the conditions, the sea conditions and the atmospheric conditions, much kinder in this part of the indian ocean. It is out of those deep southern latitudes where you get the big storms that whip up very quickly. We should know the u. S. Is deploying a second
St the technology of those black boxes used to lead searchers to them. The latest from kim just outside. Kim. Reporter we can hear the turbo pops of the military plane. We deen we dont have the official schedule. Question know they will be heading to the new search area the objects are distinctiv. Reporter among the objects are a blue bag. What have the others picked up it depends on who you ask. Australian authorities now say after further analysis, they cant be from the plane. But the malaysians arent as quick to discount the possibility. Because of ocean drift, this new search area could still be consistent with the potential objects identified by various satellite images over the past week. Reporter the new search area was determined after information gathered from radar and satellite about the planes speed and fuel usage led investigators to believe it traveled faster, and therefore not as far as originally thought. There are some up sides to the new search zone compared to the ol
Flight from kuala lumpur to beijing. Tonight, well hear from a naval commander involved in the search, take you aboard americas p8 poseidon, and well demonstrate the technology that those socalled black boxes use to lead searchers to them. First, the latest from just outside perth. Reporter we can hear the turboprops of a military plane starting up here at the air base. We dont have the official schedule of what the search is going to look like. But we know they are going to be heading to the new search area, which has already revealed some intriguing clues. Five planes, including this american p8 poseidon cnn was aboard, spotted possible debris in a new search area today, raising hope crews are closer to what could be the final resting place of Malaysian Airlines flight 370. The objects are very distinctive and definitely man made objects. Reporter among the things spotted, white objects, orange rope, and a blue bag. And what of the other debris satellite images picked up earlier in t
Thought. If that is true, which they seem to think it is now, it means it burned more fuel, which suggests it did not fly as far south as first thought. So the Surveillance Aircraft are getting airborne and have a new ocean to search. This chinese plane lifting off a short time ago outside of perth, including some ultrahigh tech american p8 poseidons. The second heading to the region from okinawa, japan. Well have an explanation of why exactly now this radical shift 1600 miles difference in the search area, so theres a lot to cover tonight. We begin with the latest from Western Australia with the breaking news from paula newton that joins us now. This information could be a game changer. Why are they shifting the search area . Reporter it is definitely a game changer. The reason is that when they say they refined their radar analysis, they determined that plane was likely flying faster, which means it ran out of fuel, which means its in a completely different location than they thought