Missing flight 370. The search had been suspended due to horrific weather but conditions have cleared enough for planes to head to the possible debris site. There were waves like these recorded in the southern indian ocean last month to give you a sense what the gales are. This is a huge ship. It made the search impossible yesterday with clouds seemingly touching the tips of the waves. Conditions have now improved. As for the search in the northern arc, the area from vietnam to kazakhstan, malaysian officials have completed the search entirely and no longer looking there. Right now the search is solely in the southern arc. Today families in beijing exploded with anger outside the Malaysian Embassy. Now tonight, the first lawsuit in this case, a multimillion dollar suit has been filed by some families against the boeing company which is the manufacturer of the triple 7 er in this case. Theyre also filing against ma laboreral airlines. Kyung lah begins coverage tonight. Theres a new tact
Im Christine Romans. It is friday, march 28th. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. And we begin with major breaking news, a shift in the hunt for malaysian flight 370. The search has moved to a new area of the indian ocean, 680 miles to the northeast. Based on what australian Officials Say is new, credible evidence. Aircraft and ships now being deployed to the new search zone. Officials say new radar analysis suggested the plane was traveling faster than previous estimates, in the process burning more fuel and flying a shorter distance in the indian ocean. Lets get straight to Andrew Stevens. He is live for us in perth, australia. Andrew, the only positive part of this seems to be the fact that this new search area is pretty significantly closer to land, which means that those aircraft, the p8, p3, et cetera, will have more time over the search zone. Is that correct . Reporter thats correct, poppy, and that is crucial, because the more time they get on, the more eyes they get on in this area
Thought. If that is true, which they seem to think it is now, it means it burned more fuel, which suggests it did not fly as far south as first thought. So the Surveillance Aircraft are getting airborne and have a new ocean to search. This chinese plane lifting off a short time ago outside of perth, including some ultrahigh tech american p8 poseidons. The second heading to the region from okinawa, japan. Well have an explanation of why exactly now this radical shift 1600 miles difference in the search area, so theres a lot to cover tonight. We begin with the latest from Western Australia with the breaking news from paula newton that joins us now. This information could be a game changer. Why are they shifting the search area . Reporter it is definitely a game changer. The reason is that when they say they refined their radar analysis, they determined that plane was likely flying faster, which means it ran out of fuel, which means its in a completely different location than they thought
Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with a race against time to find a trace of Malaysia Flight 370. Here are the latest developments. As a new day begins in the south indian ocean, ships and planes are ready to head back into the search zone after violent seas and galeforce winds caused precious hours lost. Due to arrive in australia shortly, a pinger will help searchers listen for signals. But the batteries powering those signals are running down and it will take days to get the device into the socalled search zone. Our reporters and analysts are standing by around the world as well as here in washington with the kind of coverage that only cnn can deliver. Lets begin with pamela brown. Whats the latest . Wolf, officials are scrambling to defend their controversial conclusion that the plane went down in the southern indian ocean. This is as new revelations are just beginning and pressure mounts from passenger Family Members. With anguished Family Members demanding h
A very good idea where the planes black boxes are even as they keep scrambling to pick up some more locator signals. Our correspondents are following all the new developments around the world. We also have our team of experts here in the situation room. To explain where the search and the investigation stand right now. Lets go to aviation correspondent rene marsh for the very latest. Wolf, as you said, to hear him tell it, Prime Minister of australia, youd think a breakthrough is right around the corner. Tony abbott is in china to update chinas president on the search for flight 370, but its his tone about how things are progressing thats receiving a lot of attention. Forget cautious optimism. Australian Prime Minister tony abbott is oozing confidence. We have very much narrowed down the search area, and we are very confident that the signals that we are directing are from the black box on mh370. We are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some