Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is about more than a missing jet liner. Its about 239 missing people. Today, distraught, angry relatives showed up at a press briefing in malaysia and demanded more information. Two thirds of the passengers were from china, three were american. 12 days after the boeing triple 7 vanished on a flight from kuala lumpur to beijing, president obama called the investigation a top property. Cbs news has learned f. B. I. Has taken a role. They will be analyzing the personal computers of the officer, and the Flight Simulator found in the captains home. Seth doane is in kuala lumpur for us tonight. Seth. Reporter good evening to you, scott. Malaysian authorities are hoping that the f. B. I. Will be able to help them recover computer files erased from that Flight Simulator, about a month before that illfated flight. Senior captain zaharie ahmed senior captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah had a custombuilt Flight S
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
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 getting into an area of interest. Obviously we dont know if these are associated with the aircraft yet but it certainly looks like we are seeing a lot more
There are several theories about what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in 2014, but the plane's fate remains unknown to this day and families are still looking for answers