Answers. You have been tweeting your questions by the thousands and we have experts standing by to answer them for you like this from sara. How long would it take for the plane to sink and how far would the drift be . I want to get right to the search zone. Lets start with you joe johns. We talked about that search zone. That it was narrowed. It has been a month for the investigation and the government revealed new information about the planes disappearance from radar. What did we learn, joe . I think we learned three things. First, we are learning Malaysian Air force search aircraft were dispatched soon after the airline reported its plane was missing. Malaysian government officials, however, are denying any type of jets were scrambled. So theres room for clarification on that. The second thing we are learning is the aircraft apparently dipped twoon 5,000 and 4,000 feet during its travels, not clear whether it was the result of some trouble or if it was done by the pilots for example
A grim announcement from malaysias Prime Minister declaring that flight 370 ended in the remote area of the southern indian ocean, a conclusion based on an unprecedented analysis of satellite data. Grief and agony as relatives are told that all lives are lost. Malaysia Airlines Says it informed most of the family in person or by phone but some got the word through text message. Some are accusing malaysian authorities are hiding the truth. Aircraft are hunting for debris after planes spotted objects in the indian ocean search zone. An australian vessel is headed towards the sightings. Lets begin with our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Shes got the latest. Barbara . They actually relied on embarrassingly old maps to make this hightechnical cue lags about how this plane was moving and the way it was moving away from their satellite and that let them calculate where the plane went down offering new information that the u. S. And malaysia have suspected for days. For grief stricken f
Theres only about a week left. Because of that critical deadline an australian ship carrying a u. S. Pinger locater and underseas equipment leaves for the search zone shortly and is expected to arrive there thursday. Meantime in malaysia, families of those on board flight 370 voiced their frustrations with the way the crisis was being handled during an emotional news conference. Paula hancock is in kuala lumpur. It was an impassioned press conference in this kuala lumpur hotel. The chinese relatives of the passengers of mh 370 arrived hours earlier at the airport sunday morning. They said they had to come to malaysia because they werent getting the answers they wanted from beijing. They were wearing tshirts that read pray for mh 370, pray for return safely. We want evidence, want the truth, want our families saying they are sad and desperate. His relatives said we want malaysia to apologize for inform is a that caused confusion which delayed the Search Mission and we want the malaysian
Many of their family members stage add protest today in the streets of beijing, demanding more answers from the malaysian government. Other families in ma lalaysia voiced concerns right to the transportation minister. He will not give false hope and will continue the search as long as there are love ones to be found. Bring in our panelist here in new york, tim taylor, operations specialist. Tim on the end, a cnn aviation analyst and former boeing 77 captain and justin green, an aviation attorney and former military pilot. From phoenix, cnn aviation analyst and retired pilot jim tillman. Lets talk about these items and the search area. One thing that really impressed me was the fact that two of the search items, or two of the objects found today were three minutes apart by air, and that gives you a sense of scope of how large this area is. Is that what were going to be seeing . These search areas picked up in a radius so large and significant that youre going to be, have to figure out w
Youre in the situation room. Lets get to the breaking news. China has said one of it satellites has found a crash area of what appear to be large floating objects. We have the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver. Our correspondents are standing by along with top analysts and experts. Lets go straight to jim sciutto with the latest. What were we learning . A Remarkable Development in six confusing days of misdirection. They look very small but they are very large. 43 feet by 49 feet one of them, 46 by 62 feet, another one 79 feet by 72 feet. A flatbed truck is 48 feet long, a mobile home 28 feet long so these are big pieces floating in the water. Let me show you on the map where they were found. Youll remember the flight took off from kuala lumpur on its way to beijing. This was the point of last contact when its transponder was turned off. And youll remember this was the area they were searching in in those early days but not finding anything. And then youll remember they had this ra