the world. 14 countries in all, in fact. but more than half of them are from china, and at least three are americans. u.s. intelligence officials are following reports about the two passengers who may have been traveling on stolen passports. they tell cnn, we re aware of the reporting on the two lost or stolen passports. no nexus to terrorism yet, we re still tracking that intelligence source. we have correspondents and analysis covering this story from all angles. cnn analyst tom fuentes in washington and andrew stevens in beijing. let s begin with tom. how are we going to find out the identities of these people who may have been indeed traveling on stolen passports? again that could be a slow process, but the first thing they ll do is going back over the videos of when they checked in, and see if there s video coverage of that at the ticket counter in the malaysian airport. see that would be, you know, probably the first clue to try on that. i should add something to
aviation mystery that s baffled the world. here are the latest developments as we have them. pakistan says no trace of the missing plane ever showed up on its radar systems. and pakistan says the plane would have been treated as if it was a threat if it did show up on radar. right now, police are examining a flight simulator taken from the pilot s home. harsh new scrutiny is bearing down on the pilot and the co-pilot. plus, the search for the missing jet airliner is getting even bigger. now authorities are scouring ocean and land. you will hear why some believe the plane may have landed before its last satellite contact. we are bringing in all our experts to track the unsolved mystery of malaysia flight 370. but first, as daylight breaks in what what sha, it s another day without questions. as the are the tloauthoritie getting any more details after searching the pilot s home and searching the flight simulate their the captain of the plane had in his home? well, pretty mu
vote calling it illegal. plus we track every angle of airlines flight 370. 25 nations are searching for the missing plane. coming up short. the airlines disappeared ten days ago. let me give you the latest developments here. pakistan says no trace of the missing plane ever showed up on its radar. right now police are examining a flight simulator taken from the pilot s home. the search for the jet is getting bigger. authorities are scow weatheriur and land. we are bringing in our experts to track the unsolved mystery of malasia. it is another day without concrete answers. we have andrew stephens live on the ground there. authorities looking at the flight simlulator and can you tell our viewers what is the most significant development today? i think jim, the most significant development is here. the reason i say that, 24 hours ago, we were getting information that the trance ponders in the plane were switched off before the captain or who ever said his final words by radio. a
public. and the information that is being made public, sometimes it s been misleading or sometimes has been retracked. not only the world s media or the world, but certainly the families of the passengers would appreciate that. i don t want to lead people down the wrong direction. but this vacuum of information is very, very painful for the passengers families. there were 239 people on that aircraft. andrew stephens, thanks very much. the families of those on board, the flight 370, they re growing increasingly desperate for information about their loved ones and they re taking that frustration out on malaysian officials who are providing at least as far as they re concerned, too few answers. listen to one mother s cries at a news conference earlier today. translator: we only have one child. we are respectful chinese people. it s hard to control your emotions when you might have lost your loved ones. we just need to truth. don t use them as political pawns. cnn s david
million square kilometers. today they are focusing on 80. why that particular area? reporter: it s an area that they have looked over before. if you look at the latest map from the search coordinators, the area of interest is within that much bigger zone. it s about, it s several hundred kilometers to the east of where the flights route indicated the plane may have gone. if the plane did come down looks as if the drift would have taken any debris towards the east. this is of particular interest. it s where both the chinese have spotted objects in the past few days which have not been relocated by surface vessels or other aircraft looking. it s been searched before. this is the area of greatest interest there. there were two search zones. today s search is the bridge between those two plus over the search zones that have been looked at before. they are combing over the same sort of area. that s a sharp focus on the search today and the search continues to ramp up. the aust