Events. American, british, and malaysian experts are working separately and all now agree that somebody on the plane switched off the critical tracking system while it was still over land and right at that point there. And that is vital, because a calm and normal sounding handoff message was sent from the plane after that point, after the tracking system was turned off, which is extremely mysterious, and on the ground today, police sear searched the homes of the pilot and the copoe copilot, and looking at the man test, and officials are trying to learn all they can about the people on that plane. Back in the air, if that plane kept flying, it had enough fuel to reach anywhere in western china or the nations of central asia. That is interesting, because some groups in that part of the world have very big problems with china and the west. And quite possibly reasons extreme enough to justify stealing an airplane filled with 239 innocent people. I want to show you the map, because it is so
Not only on the pilots but the passengers of flight 370. And the International Geopolitical lead backing up his welcome back to the lead, more now on the world lead with no physical evidence of Malaysia Airline flights in the 11 days since its disappearance, investigators have been forced to rely on things like pings and signals and radar to figure out what could have happened to the plane and where it may have ended up. Whats become evident in the midst of this mess is the Technology Used to track the trends in the skies, well, possibilities. In the northern route up here, it simply was missed by radar and you may wonder how that could happen but one thing weve learned, as weve looked at the explanation of this investigation and this search is that there are many places here, cambodia, myanmar, china, up towards pakistan and india and kazakhstan and they have either spotty radar coverage or not very much manned radar coverage or coverage that is not busy during the night on top of whi
239 souls onboard. It is now four days into the search. And one new theory has emerged. Take a look. At first, investigators believed the plane traveled this scheduled route, then disappeared. But tonight, new clues suggest that the plane could have veered radically off course. And that means, a vast, new stretch of ocean to be searched. Abcs bob woodruff is on the ground in beijing with the very latest on the disappearance of flight 370. Reporter today, the malaysian military is quoted, saying they believe the mystery jet headed way off course. The flight carrying 239 passengers en route north to beijing, banking hard to the left. The military saying the plane soared back over hundreds of miles of land for an hour, never sounding an alarm, cruising low into the strait of malacca, a busy shipping lane near a tiny, rocky island called pulau perak. No boat, no one on land ever spotting it. An almost unimaginable maneuver sparking even more questions tonight. From the sky, it is like look
Swirling that the pilot is the focus of the investigation. Lets go to Andrew Stevens live in perth, australia this morning. Reporter good morning. A very frustrating day again for the pilots on this search. Crucial that the ships remain on station given the size of the storm down there. While theres frustration for the pilots, there could be potential new developments coming to us from satellite images. New this morning, thailands state News Agency Says a thai satellite a has spotted about 300 floating objects. These pieces located just over 120 miles from the area where a french satellite spotted 122 floated objects, those released on wednesday, that potential debris spotted sunday off the coast of perth, australia. Thats about the distance from washington d. C. To denver, colorado. They scatted over about the size of denver. This is todays Aerial Search for wreckage called off. Severe weather forcing all planes to return to base. Beaten up by turbulence in the remote search area. Thi
Tougher. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The breaking news right now, the Aerial Search is about to resume as dramatic new satellite images give a boost to flight 370. Aircraft now getting ready for a new day of searching after flights were called back due to severe turbulence and icing. Six ships have continued to search despite the storms and Poor Visibility in the targeted areas. In the most recent sighting, japan now says one of its intelligence satellites has spotted ten objects floating in the radius near the search area. The largest piece is 13 feet by 26 feet. That follows an announcement of a big debris field reported by a thigh satellite. Ranging up to 50 feet long. That debris was about 125 miles from where a french satellite spotted dozens of objects earlier in the eke. Our analysts and our reporters are all standing by and they are here in washington as well as of special coverage that only cnn can deliver. We begin with pamela brown with the very latest. Pam