China plans to send out ships to try to find this new object. In the meantime, the search for those other two pieces of or these other objects, i should say, goes on. Were talking about six planes scouring the area for a third day today. No traces were found, however. They came back, at least a kouchl couple of the planes, and found nothing significant. Weather is deteriorating though in the search area. Australian official says the operation going to continue despite that. Also multinational flotilla forming a search. A norwegian cargo ship is already there. Diverted from its onlial end point. Austral australia, malaysia is spending planes to the planets most remote areas. The revelation of the satellite images came as flight cruise wrapped up, as i said, this third day of searches as they look for the other two pieces that we were talking about. Those spotted by an australian satellite but were in a whole new phase of this now because, as you said, were 75 miles away looking at somet
Lies. Tonig tonight, were keeping them honest, we begin with the new discoveries, possible with the growing questions in the search for flight 370, the discovery, the metallic object that washed to shore on australia, there is word on that. And the bluefin has less than 10 ocean bottom to cover in the search area. It may take far longer to do that than we have been previously told. Several weeks instead of a couple of days. Deepening questions about the search and why we havent yet seen a sign from it. And one expert rethinking everything on the table. And in beijing, malaysia, growing demands from malaysian authorities. A lot to cover, with Michael Holmes in perth, and miguel, what washed to shore in augusta, what do we know about it . What does it look like . Reporter yeah, local Officials Say it looked like it was about eight feet tall, a couple of feet wide. It was attached with rivets, the local person said they held onto it for a couple of days to get it to the local airport and
Asking foermgs climb to 38,000 to escape a storm. Two full minutes pass as the controller assesses air in the area. When he approves flight 8501 does not respond. The uss sampson arrived in the java sea, what had been its original mission, searching for rescue and possible survivors now turns to roarry. Search teams are now concentrating on finding the bodies of the passengers and crew and airasia ceo was quick to reach out to the heartbroken families. Tony fernandez tweeting my heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in qz8501. On behalf of airasia my condolences to all. Words cannot express how sorry i am. Lets head to the indonesian city of surabaya where the flight originated and distraught Family Members have been huddling. Cnns senior producer david malko is there with more. Hi david. Reporter its just past 8 00 in the evening, 9 00 sorry here in surabaya, indonesia, a few hundred miles away from where most of the activity is taking place now offshore off the i
See their loved ones again. The president of indonesia and the ceo of airasia are on their way to surabaya we want to go to paula hancock, she got back to land minutes ago after being out on a search effort to see the search efforts firsthand, paula . Well john just speaking to some of the officials here we have new information about what will happen to some of the victims that are now being found at the location. We understand from officials here that they will be brought to this island they will be brought to a port about an hour away from here. The reason theyre not going to the closer island is simply because the water is not deep enough to accommodate the navy ship that will be transporting them. We understand that the bodies are being retrieved from the water. Its not clear how long it will be until they come back do shore. But the trip will take about seven hours. So it will be some time. And of course as you can see, the light is fating now, its just after 6 00 in the evening,
That said, egypts aviation minister says a terror attack is more likely than mechanical failure. The weather was good, and the crew was experiences. Why do the plane swerve sharply before disappearing from radar a half hour before it was expected to land . Kerry, what are we learning . Were now about 19 1 2 hours into the notification that this plane disappeared from radar. We have a general idea we believe where the plane went down, as near the karpathos island. You can see on the map here, the area, 173 miles from the coast in egypt. It was heading in that direction when it went off radar. One of the things theyre using to help find more information about if there is indeed debris down there, with the u. S. Navy. A p3 owe ryan, an old aircraft but amazing technology, one of the things that this plane can do is it can drop buoys that come out with a parachute and land on water, and can pick up indications if there is anything on the water. The sea state is important. The more waves th