Reporter kate, we have Fresh Information for you. We have heard from local police here in jindo, south korea. The Deputy Principle of that school where most of these High School Students were from, has been found dead just by the gymnasium where many of the families are wait for news of their relatives. Local police saying he was found hanging from a tree. Another tragedy to add to this one. Were going into the third night here. Relatives sitting by the water desperately looking out to sea wondering whats has happened to their loved ones. This morning, divers in south korea have finally made their way into the ships hull. The ship now completely submerged under choppy seas, the strong currents in murky water making any rescue efforts nearly impossible. Rescuers this morning pumping oxygen into the ship in the hopes of providing air to anyone inside who may be alive. But the desperate families wait for answers, its not enough. Theyre pleading with authorities to do more, releasing a sta
Search for flight 370. This morning, australias Prime Minister says hes confident that the signals crews are hearing under water are from the planes black boxes, and he says they could be within just a few miles of finding them. Also this morning, the search zone has narrowed once again, just 18,000 square miles. This is so much smaller than the area they were looking in before, this as they race against time to find the flight recorders before their batteries run out, if, in fact, they havent run out already. Our Senior International correspondent, Matthew Chance, live in perth with the latest this morning. Whats going on there, matthew . Reporter well, theres been a lot of activity, of course, in the search zone, which as you mentioned has narrowed significantly over the past several days to an area which is much more manageable, i suppose, for the dozen or so aircraft and dozen or so ships that are currently scouring, including the australian vessel, the ocean shield, thats been usi
Obsession. Im talk to the son of one of the passengers. Well talk to two friends of the pilot. They say the man they knew would never deliberately crash a plane. Our bill story is of course flight 370. We are covering every angle with cnn reporters all over the globe. Sara sidner in kuala lumpur, David Mckenzie in beijing and Richard Quest with me. Dramatic developments that happened during our show last night where the search moved suddenly at least 700 miles north. Weve got this photograph from new Zealand Air Force from a plane, not a satellite. What is the significance of this picture potentially . Reporter well, its a very promising lead. But at this point we dont know if its actually debris from the plane. It is a floating object in the water. You could kind of see its rectangular in shape. And the plane that spotted it was actually a p 3 orion from new zealand. The lieutenant that saw it gave some brief comments as soon as he landed here. Take a listen. Yes, it sounds like were
Answers. You have been tweeting your questions by the thousands and we have experts standing by to answer them for you like this from sara. How long would it take for the plane to sink and how far would the drift be . I want to get right to the search zone. Lets start with you joe johns. We talked about that search zone. That it was narrowed. It has been a month for the investigation and the government revealed new information about the planes disappearance from radar. What did we learn, joe . I think we learned three things. First, we are learning Malaysian Air force search aircraft were dispatched soon after the airline reported its plane was missing. Malaysian government officials, however, are denying any type of jets were scrambled. So theres room for clarification on that. The second thing we are learning is the aircraft apparently dipped twoon 5,000 and 4,000 feet during its travels, not clear whether it was the result of some trouble or if it was done by the pilots for example
Southern indian ocean ranging in size from 3 feet to 75 feet. It turned up on satellite images from a French Defense firm on sunday. Theyre digging into that and every other new detail of the information with my experts. Our big story remains flight 370. Were covering every ainngle. Its 9 00 a. M. In perth. Tell me what the expectation is today. Weve seen again 122 new images potentially of plane wreckage. Do they think they can get anywhere near where they think they were . Reporter well, they certainly are hoping to. Theyve got 11 aircraft up in the air today. Just about an hour ago the chinese jet took off. Were expecting another five civilian aircraft to take off in the next few hours. Then the u. S. Military planes will go out. Its critical that they try and get to this area. Theyre going to cover two sectors with about 78,000 square kilometers in all. Its critical they get low enough to see this debris and actually identify, to eyeball it and see what it is. Whether it could be a