the investigators here have been holding all their information, it is, perhaps, slightly out of the ordinary and also slightly out of the ordinary they have not played the recordings to the families of the first officer and the captain, don. nic, tell us about these groups that the malaysian government is forming as part of the investigation. yeah, three groups. airworthiness, operations and medical. airworthiness is looking at the maintenance records, those sorts of things, the background of the aircraft leading up to this day. the operations will be focused on the flight recordings should those black boxes be recovered. their role will increase once some of the debris is in the hands of investigations, if that happens. and then there is the medical side which will if eventually the aircraft is found, will also
the projected path of the aircraft. it s basically on that southern route. it s right next to the last ping. it s adjacent to that. it s excellent work by the investigators and calculators. those are the pings from the inmarsat on this aircraft that were mapped out through very, very good science they determined two southern crescent crests with the way this aircraft may have gone. so the long answer to your question is, it looks plausible. i guess we ll find out soon if it truly is real. thank you, guys. stick around. we ll see you in a little while on cnn. that news conference from the search command center is moments away. stay with us for that and special coverage of flight 370. we ll be right back. when it comes to good nutrition, my daughter s an expert.
my understanding is that they re unconfirmed and, look, the point i make is that we are hopeful but by no means certain. this is the most difficult search in human history. we are searching for an aircraft which is is at the bottom of a very deep ocean. and it s a very, very wide search area. so it s a very, very difficult search. and while we certainly are throwing everything we have at it and while the best brains and the best technology in the world will be deployed, we need to be very careful about coming to hard and fast conclusions too soon. tony abbott, the australian prime minister making those comments in tokyo. it s a huge search area but the
area. the whole of the existing search area remains the most likely area that the aircraft entered the water. but based on the new advice, the southern area now had a higher priority. the air and surface searches for the floating wreckage today are already in progress and will be completed as planned in the available daylight. tomorrow s searches for flight and wreckage will be adjusted to account for any new information. up to ten military aircraft, two civil aircraft, and 13 ships will assist in today s search, which will cover an area of 216,000 square kilometers. fortunately, the weather in the search area is expected to remain good, with a cloud base of about 2,500 feet and visibility greater than ten kilometers.
not be verified as being related to the missing aircraft at that point in time. that remains the case. i also advised that the australian maritime safety authority s rescue coordination center had sfoen the rescue coordination center in china and asked for further information that might be relevant. this morning we were contacted by the chinese authorities and advised that high shin had redetected the signals within 90 kilometers of the original detection. this is an important and encouraging lead but one i urge you to continue to treat carefully. we are working in a very big ocean and within a very large search area and so far, since the aircraft went missing, we