the black box from air france flight 447 in the atlantic and failed to find the pinger. the manufacturer says that s because the pinger broke off from the black box. it may have been damaged. but in three other cases, success. a 1996 air crash in the caribbean. the egypt air crash in the atlantic in 1999 and the 2007 of an adam air jet. the black boxes were found but the search areas were relatively small. malaysia air is the fifth attempt and it s still a long shot. we ve got nothing to lose. it s certainly got a better shot on the indian ocean than it does alongside the dock in perth. airline s pilot association, they are calling for stronger pingers to be used, better emergency transmitters and that kind of equipment. that s a very strong signal from the airline pilots association as it relates to this case. today we got another vote of confidence on the tow s pinger locator expressing total
few other countries do it. they should all be doing it. important lesson. i want to go to australia for the latest in the search. in the air and for first time under the water. kyung lah is at the stabging ara in perth with the very latest. wolf just about this time that the very first of the planes take to the air. we ve got gnot gotten any detai about what the air search would look like. but what we did see yesterday was a total of 14 planes taking to the air. now we have those underwater vessels, those towed pinger locator, one from the uk and one from the united states. it s a meticulous painful search underneath the water. it will be supported by a heavy air presence. just like we heard rene mention, wolf, it is from the air that they are most hopeful that there will be something spotted to give those locators a place to
but by bouncing those signals back and collecting them, they can create images. and those images give them a picture of the ocean floor. if you see something there that tells you you found a part of the plane, well, then that s obviously a big thing. if you just see something worth going back and checking out again, that s of some value. but we cannot stress enough, wolf, all of this depends on location. if they re in the wrong place, it doesn t matter how great this technology is, it simply cannot find anything and the scope is very small and very focused. wolf? tom foreman, thanks very much. we re getting some breaking news here in the situation room. we just learned that this will be the biggest search day so far. it s already saturday morning in the area. more planes will be in the air. more ships scanning the indian ocean for flight 370. let s go back to perth, australia. cnn s kyung lah has the very latest. pretty dramatic development. really massive search today. certainly
go. and weather conditions, i assume, are okay today, right? okay is the best way to put it. the weather is actually not going to be as excellent as it was yesterday. yesterday had terrific visibility. today the weather is going to be a little bit worse from the south, there is a weather system moving in. it will cause a little more cloud activity there, but we should point out it is still going enough to search. they re still feeling positive about taking to the air today and staggering the flight search. i know they re pumped. we hope they find something. kyung lah in perth, australia. after four long and rather heartbreaking weeks flight 370 families are making new and specific demands of malaysian authorities. we now have new details of what went on in a rather tense closed-door meeting earlier today. our senior correspondent joe johns is joining us now live from kuala lumpur with much more
looking into it. richard, is it worth using the sophisticated and expensive pinger locator under the water without any really strong lead where they are looking? the best answer that i can give you is from that last report. it may not be doing much good but it s doing more good than if it was sitting at the harbor in perth. unless they ve got some very strong evidence and, frankly, they haven t told us, which would be a bit of a disgrace. if they were sitting on some very strong evidence that they believed it was there and they deployed the pingers because of that and they are just going about this without letting the public know, i think that would be nothing short of scandalous at this point. there are families that want to know. the public wants to know. the traveling public wants to know. so we have to assume, wolf, that we are doing this because it s better than just leaving it tied up alongside. given the fact that the