shift. >> i imagine for those families pings, science, data, many of them want to see pieces of the plane. chad, thank you so much. for the past several hours you can there is an australian naval survey ship following up on the lead. tony abbott announced that an air crew spotted two objects some 1500 miles southwest of perth. one is gray or green, circular, and the other is an orange rectangle. china also reported suspicious objects in the area spotted by a plane. none of the objects has been respotted and they cannot be confirmed right now to have come of course from this plane, flight 370, but with me now from new york is richard quest and also kit darby, former airline pilot and now consultant.