Conditions. And the planes pilot is speaking out with a newspaper objecting information his father may be responsible in the disappearance. He says, quote, i know my father better. Were getting more reports of objects spotted in the indian ocean. So far search crews have been unable to find any of the objects, certainly they have not been able to recover any wreckage from the plane. Lets bring in our cnn correspondent will ripley joining us from the base. Planes have been grounded on this day. Give us the breakdown, will, of the latest satellite reports starting with the newest one we just received from japan. Yeah. Those pictures as you mentioned were taken yesterday. Cnn has now confirmed that the largest of these objects is actually rectangular, about 26 feet by 13 feet, the other square objects ten of them in total, and then of course we had just hours before that report the thai satellite images, 300 objects still not really confirmed what these are. But japanese officials told th
The new search zone for the missing airliner and this is a first. Chinese and australian aircraft spotted multiple objects. The state media reporting three suspicious objects seen by chinese were white, red, and orange. However, so far none of those objects, nor the ones taken up from the sea today, have been confirmed as having anything to do with the lost jet. We also know new this morning that searchers covered 97,000 square miles today. To give you perspective, thats the land area of oregon and theyre concentrating on a new zone, almost 700 miles northeast of where authorities last focussed their hunt. This shift was based on a new analysis of radar data. Australian Authorities Say todays search has wrapped up at least for the day. We know there are four ship theres right now. More ships due to arrive in a zone tomorrow. Meantime, as families of missing passengers demand proof of official claims that all lives were lost, a top official inspired some hope, telling relatives in kuala
That front, david . Wolf, the very latest is, i mean, yes, you call it denial, but they see it as clinging on to hope. They say they havent seen any direct evidence that this plane went down. So still they believe their loved ones might be alive. The trauma of waiting. For weeks hundreds of family members of those on board flight 370 have been stuck in a hotel in beijing, a Pressure Cooker of grief and emotion. When they were told the plane went down, some via text message, it was overwhelming. Then grief boiled over into anger. These families have banded together and leaders like steve wang have emerged. Without physical evidence, he believes his mother could still be alive. But the wait is weighing on them all. Well, it is a hard time. All of us are exhausted, both mental and physical. But we just have to wait. Reporter retired u. S. Air force colonel Gordon Peters has deep experience helping families deal with trauma. He calls the situation terrible. They have no closure. Theyre not
I look and see specks. Experts look at these and say they are shiny. That could be significant. Adding to the intrigue, they were seen just 125 miles from the area where the french satellite spotted some 100 objects. Lots of pictures and possible clues here. The real question is this. Could the sightings be the same field moving quickly with currents in the rough indian ocean. Thats one question. Next is despite all the new leads and the task of getting to the objects is getting tougher. High risk and the way it is, very low probability of seeing anything out there at all. Because of that, forced to return early from the search zone because of these brutal conditions. Lets go straight to perth, australia. Here he is, will ripley up live for us. We know this Navy Lieutenant commander said aircrews who were out there and his words were the crews were beaten up by the rough conditions. How will it be in a couple of hours . Thats the Million Dollar question, brooke. We dont know. Thats how
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