they have searched that area for nearly one month. we are really suspecting they are searching the right place and that s why we asked for the data. they must have covered up something and want to hide something. questions are not confidential. it s just a fact. i don t know how it could influence the investigation but they just give the answer it s under investigation. it s not an answer. just an excuse. an excuse not an answer. families of flight 370 continue to be cynical. that s one way of putting it. they continue to be furious at malaysian officials. australian authorities believe they or say they found an object of interest in the search for the plane. they describe it as a sheet of metal with rivets in what appears to be fiberglass
loss. they need that help. coming up, a look at what it s like on a sinking ship. we ll answer your questions about the flight for search 370. is this object of interest that they have in their hands right now from the missing plane or are we back to square one? your questions and answers ahead, @ this hour. i m type e.
submersible coverage, it is a tedious process. at that pace, it could take six weeks, even up to two months to cover the search area. and also that search for debris, we ve talked about, the dozen plane, the dozen ships out there several hundred miles to the east, yeah, looks like that going to wind down in the days ahead. michael, the anticipation of surgency doesn t always match practicality. that is going to be the situation here. appreciate the reporting. let s bring in david soucie a cnn safety analyst, author of why planes crash and also a former faa inspect per. and miss mary schiavo. and in the pascal colors of easter showing optimism. mary schiavo, not so much, black for boating, let s see if it reflects the analysis.
and author of why planes crash and mary schiavo. former aviation director. david soucie, when i heard, the battery must be dead, not a call for optimism, you said different, why? with that pinging, at that point, you know you re on to something. this other time period sort of in between, so we can say, we ve checked everywhere else. we ve looked everywhere. this is definitely the place to be. so in my mind, they ve got confidence in what they have because they didn t find anything else. does that make sense? it does. it does. i m thinking about it, mary, what s the pushback? the pushback is, well, isn t there a big difference knowing something isn t somewhere and fwlog it is? you know what i mean, i know it s not there. but i don t know where it is, necessarily. right. and that s the difference between the search for the pings
those your headlines. as we mentioned, crews are looking for flight 370 have deployed the underwater vehicle, they called the bluefin 21. it s now searching for plane wreckage. in an area officials have classified as new to man. what does this mean and how are they going to do to it? joining me on the map is david gallon low, co-leader of the search for air france 447. and director at oceanographic institution. david, great to see you. thank you, kate. let s talk about the bluefin 21. this is a representation of what it would be what it s going to be doing under water. it takes a minimum of 24 hours to do each of its missions. that s right. what exactly is it doing this time. it s obviously going faster than it will in realtime. we ll make it a little faster. it s going to take a couple hours to get to the bottom. it s all about power. so it s just sinking. driftinging down. maybe a little bit of rotation with propellers. when it gets to the bottom, it