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we are following several breaking developments in the mist are ri of malaysian flight 370. they concern the search for the missing airliner and the investigation into the disappearance four weeks ago. first, breaking news we've received from a force in kuala lumpur. an official tells cnn flight 370 flew around indonesia air space during since journey march 8th. according to the senior government source, the boeing
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777 may have been deliberately flown along a route to avoid radar detection. we'll have the details on that news in just a moment. there's also breaking news concerning the search for the missing jet. at this hour, search planes and ships are heading for an area where chinese searchers have now twice detected electronic pulse signals in the southern indian ocean, what they've been waiting for apparently. that coming from australian authorities that said the shield has also picked up a costic noise as well. we want to look more into the news that cnn has obtained from a senior government course. nick is live from kuala lumpur. it would be more astonishing news about the path of this airplane and why it took the
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route it did. what have you learned? >> reporter: natalie, the government officials has been able to tie up the dots on the flight path of mh 370. we now know after it made the left hand turn, it turned around, flew back across malaysia over the sea on the west side of malaysia. it flew north of indonesia not flying across indonesia, flying purposely or apparently purposely, according to this official, around ind knee shan air space. this data a has led the searchers to the southern indian ocean where they're searching now. this is a significant development. it shows the complete flight path. we understand from this senior
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malaysian official it indicates whoever was flying the aircraft was trying to void radar detection. there was concern perhaps when the first left hand turn was made there was some problem or mechanical issue. we now understand the after the intention to fly around indonesia it was purposeful. it then made a turn to fly to the southern indian ocean. investigators have a much full you a er picture of what happened. >> experts say for maneuvers to have taken place, it required someone in the cockpit highly skilled. does this put the cockpit back
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on the investigation? >> reporter: senior officials tell us they've been able to arrive at this new updated flight path if you will. they've been able to put together radar information from neighboring countries. it shows whoever was in the cockpit was flying intentionally, purposefully. officials said whoever was flying the aircraft had dodge of the aircraft, knew how to fly it well. analysts say the same thing. investigators have been looking at hijacking, sabotage, personal issues or psychological issues of the suspects. the suspects had initially been crew and passengers. all passengers are ruled out. it now certainly casts back on any of the crew who would be capable of flying the aircraft. that points this time very much towards the captain and the first officer. of course we've learned over the
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past couple of days that investigation officials here have now played the voice -- played the air traffic recordings recorded between the captain and the first officer and the air traffic controllers as the aircraft began to fly through takeoff and then flew through malaysian air space. focus is very much going to be which of the two was in control of the aircraft and raising the question, why did they take this route? why did they purposefully avoid ind knee shan radar? it gives the impression whoever was flying was trying to avoid detection of where they were going. >> another compounding element to this mystery and piece to this large puzzle. nick from kuala lumpur, thank you for that. dramatic developments from here in the past hours as well.
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let's go to paula newton in perth, australia. this information coming five hours ago. you were there. you attended other news conferences. tell us about this ping detection they think they have detected? >> reporter: more than two weeks they've been searching off the coast of western australia. these are the first leads. that's why there was a lot of momentum this morning and confidence if these were the black boxes they'll find them. talking about two acoustic events. also the australian ship, the ocean shield, with the u.s. navy towed ping locater on board. we expect information about that
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whether they can discount it or verify in the next few hours. you add to that refinement of the search zone. what they're talking about is the southern sector. it is encouraging the chinese ship was wearing acoustic signals from the southern sector. having said this, i know family members are in contact with chief houston leading this effort here in australia. of course you hear the news and think did you find the plane? these are from family members that thought they weren't even looking in the right place. i want you to listen. he says what we're doing is for the families and we always have them in mind. >> we need to keep at the forefront of their minds families and friends of 239 passengers on board the flight. speculation and unconfirmed reports can see a the loved ones
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of the passengers put through terrible stress. i don't want to put them under any furtherer emotional disstress at this very difficult time. >> reporter: you can hear in his voice he's being very measured and call your attention. a lot of hope with the task force behind me saying at least we have something to go on. they're certain they have the assets to either verify or discount these findings. natalie? >> it's remarkable just 24 hours ago we were saying time is up. batteries will likely die at any moment. what do we know as far as ships that will go to the area to confirm how much time hit will take to get there? what type of technology will
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they bring to verify the underwater acoustics? >> reporter: the first ship in the area, hms echo, british royal navy ship. it has sonar on board. it will get out in the next 10 to 12 hours to sweep the zone the chinese ships have already been over. chinese ships will continue to work as well. they've heard it twice in that zo. they want to go over and see if they hear anything else. the ship investigating the acoustics now. if it's discounted and they do not believe that's the location of the black boxes they'll join the echo and chinese ship already on scene. they have the towed ping locater. they'll do a sweep of the same area and see if they can hear it. after that, they crucially have the underwater robot on board, blue fin 21.
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at depths, 4,500 meters at that range. it's in the range of the blue fin. the chief houston warned us whatever we do will be pain staking and lengthy. they are hoping to identify in the next few days whether or not those are the black boxes. >> thank you paula. we have the meteorologist with us now. he has been looking at the depth of challenges they have with that. also the ping. they tell us it's consistent, the noise that comes from a commercial airliner. this sound, because of this depth, there's not a lot else that can make any noise. >> 14,700 feet, 4,500 meters. life cannot be sustained here. when talking about temperature pressure, temperatures, 2-3 degrees celsius, just above
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freezing. the life you have here, mostly sea urchins, sea cucumbers, squids. that's the kind of life you'd find at this elevation for that sea level. here's the perspective. mount washington, the eastern portion of the united states. this is the average depth of the indian ocean. tallest building in the world, you could stack eight to ten on top of each other. this is roughly the size of romania. or in the united states, 83,000 square miles, roughly the size of state of utah. you'll find a massive plateau east. detection 14,700. areas rise back up to 4,900 feet. they go down to 29,000 feet depth. one important thing to note.
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we know people say the signal was there, tape areaed off and came back. they sustained it 90 seconds. we know there are ocean antic vents. it's freezing near the surface. the thermal vendts send temperatures to regions to make the ping intermittment maybe to explain why the signals weren't consistent. the batteries would be limited as well. >> is it possible with hours to go for the black box searcher batteries, searchers may be now picking up the recorders? we'll take a look at this as we push on.
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and again our top story,
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search teams looking for malaysian airlines flight 370 following up on several possible electronic pings detected in the southern indian ocean. the ninth hour of this long search. the chinese ship picked up the electronic signals twice, once friday and again saturday. those on board ocean shield detected what was described as an acoustic noise. the head of the search said detections are encouraging but have not been verified as being related to the missing flight. earlier our expert richard quest weighed in on the importance of what the operations chief had to say. >> the words to take away from the air commander is encouraging. he said this is the most important, most promising lead they've had to far. more than that, because of the
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reengineering of the satellite data to the lower part of the southern corridor, that puts it exactly roughly where the chinese pings were heard. in other words, you have these pings, flight data and two seem to converge in the same place. his words were we must treat this carefully. it's important and encouraging. then he described what was heard as an acoustic event. the echo is on the way, british warship, in 14 hours. ocean shield will stay where she is at the moment to investigate the a skcoustic event. if that turns out to be nothing, 24 hours will be over for the
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pings. some promising leads from ocean shield and chinese. i think the important thing of what he said, time and again, is we will investigate every event. we've got a transmission. we must investigate it. >> that was richard after this news conference about four hours ago. now the hms echo is ten hours from the area where the chinese picked up underwater pings so it can investigate further. the most difficult search every in mystery, how australia's prime minister describes this race to find flight 370. even if crews find where it went down, how much could be salvaged at this depth? we look at the challenges. >> this is what it looking like trying to recover the airplane from the ocean. you're watching
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the team gather pieces of the plane that went off new york in 1996. divers are maneuvering among pieces of the twisted wreckage. >> the u.s. navy has recovered a helicopter. they've done this before. >> the retired detective mccord has been among rescue missions including one that crashed in '98 off the coast of nova scotia. those were in more shallow water than the indian ocean. they had equipment designed for deep water investigation. they can go as deep as 20,000 feet. the deeper the recovery, the keep deeper the process. >> if going to 11,000 feet,
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count on 11 hours to get down. >> underwater vehicles are equipped with lights and cameras. they're located with cameras to steer toward debris. they have instant feedback from the cameras to direct the robotic arms. they can hover, move, left, right, forward. they can go to where they need carefully, hover over a piece and pick up if they need to. >> remember air france 447 that crashed in the ocean 2009? two years later, the unmanned vehicle found the flight 13,000 feet beneath the surface. the engines were pulg ed from the ocean floor. if flight 370 is found, search teams are prepared to do the same. >> if it's small like the black boxes you put a basket and arms to pick it up and put it in the
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basket. >> the remote underwater weeks can only carry 4,000 pounds. anything heavier like a large piece will have to be a tamped to a cable and pulled to the surface by the ship. keep in mind this could be happening miles from the surface. an incredibly difficult task. still the crews will keep eyes peeled for the black box, hoping to get much needed answers first. >> and again, these underwater pings that the chinese are reporting come at a depth of 14,700 feet or 4500 meters. despite the violence by the taliban, high participation in the afghanistan presidential election this weekend. we'll have a live report right after this.
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welcome back. we will continue to analyze the developments of the search of flight 370 this hour. first we want to look at other stories. afghanistan is set to carry out a democratic transfer of presidential power. results from the election won't be known until the end of the month. voters turned out across the nation to select new officials as well as the successor to president karzai. there was sporadic violence and bad weather, but turnout was strong. we have been covering this live. so many civilians defied threats to come out and vote. >> reporter: it was an act of
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defiance on an incredible scale we witnessed here across afghanistan yesterday, natalie. it truly was extraordinary despite the attacks and violence. taliban said they would use force to disrupt this vote. 7 million people turned the out to cast their vote. that is more than 50% of the voting population. of that, a third of them were women. this is a country where in some parts women are treated like second class citizens. it's just phenomenal. there's a sense of pride in afghanistan today, a sense of euphoria, that they were able to be victorious despite the turmoil in this country. natalie, people here are demanding change. there's no doubt about it. there's a momentum underway. they are wanting peace, stability, wanting an end to corruption. you know, certainly the people have said whoever is the next president then they will have to
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deliver. standing in the rain, some waiting for hours, the people of afghanistan lined up. each holding their voting card, their tickets to democracy. >> we work for him to win the future. we want to build a future for this man. >> it was hope that president karzai would provide the future during his 12 years in office. it's now his successor who have these afghans are banking on. how does it feel to be here today? >> fantastic. proud, happy, successful. i feel really good because i believe today is my day. today is the day which people of afghanistan can go vote freely. >> reporter: following weeks of high profile attacks and taliban threats to disrupt the elections, every man and woman was searched before entering.
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inside voters dipped their forefinger in the ink before giving the ballot papers. >> today i came the to select my next president. i hope to pick a good person to represent the people, a person to bring change. >> are you voting for? >> of the eight presidential candidates running, only three are within contention of landing the job. ghani, abdullah, and the man many believe to have the president's support, rassoui. monitoring the voting process, 300,000 voters spread out over six and a half polling places. we haven't seen any fraud, he says. >> the united nations expects voter turn out to be 50%, many
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are women. the number could be higher. several polling station ran out of ballots. the resilience of people is truly inspiring despite all the attacks and threats of violence. afghans have turned out in encouraging numbers to cast their vote polling stations around the country. they strongly believe after so many years of war they too deserve a peaceful and brighter future. >> we need a good president so the bombs stop, says this mother of two. i want my children to go to school without fear. a basic desire of mothers around the county. they are hoping this vote changes the course of their country. >> natalie, the voting has begun. it's unlikely we'll -- we won't
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hear preliminary results until the 26th of april. that's what we hear from the independent commission. as for vote per fraud as we heard from the observer, he hasn't seen cases of it. there are complaints from some presidential candidates about ballots running out. this will be investigated in the coming weeks. there are three top contenders. it's unlikely any of them will get the 50% plus one that will then mean they are president. this means it will go to a run off election which is likely held at the end of may. you know, the people here will have to wait a little longer until they find out who the next president is. they are demanding change, natalie. that's what they want. peace, stability, and get on
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with their lives. >> they deserve that. we can see the hope on their faces in that story. thank you so much anna in kabul live. a busy day of developments in the search for flight 370 coming up. we're live in kuala lumpur with the latest developments for you.
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hello again. i'm natalie allen.
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you're watchi inin inin ining "" we want to bring you up to speed on the latest developments in the mystery of the flight. we are getting developments. a senior malaysian government official now tells cnn that flight 370 flew north of indonesia and around the indonesian air space during the journey to the southern indian ocean march 8th. according to the source, the boeing 777 may have been deliberately flown on the route to avoid radar detection. search planes and ships are heading for an area chinese searchers have twice detected electronic pulse signals in the indian ocean. that word from authorities who say the australian ship ocean shield has picked up acoustic noise as well. >> we have three separate
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events. we have another one with ocean shield. we're treating each of them very seriously. we need to insure before we leave any of those areas of detection that there is no connection to mh 370. we will work in those locations until we can say yes or no. >> we'll analyze the investigation they have before them on that search area in a moment. first, we want to get more details on the breaking news that cnn has obtained from a senior malaysian government force. nick robertson brought this story to us. he's live now in kuala lumpur. first, nick, the news that the boeing 777 may have been deliberately flown to avoid indonesian air space. how did they get that information? what does this signify?
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>> reporter: what we understand from the senior official, this information has been derived from the radar dat a at that a provided by neighboring countries. it allowed them to see the full flight path, if you will, of mh 370. until now, we understood it had flown away from malaysia, on its route to beijing, taken the left hand turn, flew back across malays malaysia. we didn't know what happened next. now that's clear. it flies north around avoiding indonesia, turns south t on the western side of indonesia outside of radar controlled air space. then travels south along that trajectory that was predicted by the satellite hand shake data a that's allowed searchers to focus off the coast of perth and
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australia. what's vital here is now to have the full path and perhaps to have a better understanding of what was in the mind of the person that was flying the aircraft. officials have said here all along they believed whoever was controlling the aircraft knew very well how to fly it, how to control it. they're now saying this person also appeared to have the attention of avoiding radar detection and has flown into a part of the southern indian ocean where it would have avoidavoid ed that detection. this flying around indonesia is a vital piece of the puzzle now for the investigators. natalie? >> absolutely. it also, does it not, point to -- they keep talking about criminal intent on this airplane. we don't believe this is result of on board emergency. they'll be looking into that. they're still looking at the question of, who spoke last from
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the cockpit. is that correct? they still don't know? >> reporter: they still don't know. in the past day or so, investigators have played the audio recorders between air traffic controllers and the cockpit to friends and colleagues of the first officer and captain. we know the conversation had 53 minutes before there was radio silence. we know on the ground, normal protocol is the first officer would be speaking to air traffic controllers during push back. the most important piece of information is who said, good night malaysian 370, the last radio transmission for the aircraft. it's within a few minutes the tracking transponder is turned off, goes to radio silence. indication would be likely the person that made that last transmission to air traffic
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controllers was the person that then turned the aircraft and flew it on the careful route avoiding indonesian air space and control. it is vital for investigators to figure that out. despite playing tapes to colleagues and friends of the pilot of the captain and first officer, they were unable to determine which was at the controls. that's what investigators say up until now. natalie? >> all right, another amazing development nick robertson learning that information from kuala lumpur for us. thank you. so if they were to find the cockpit voice recorder, that would help in the investigation. as we mentioned, searchers are dealing with depths of more than 4,000 meter, more than 13,000 feet below the surface as they look for the flight 370 data and voice recorders. as we mentioned there have been
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three possible pings from under the surface of the southern indian ocean. earlier i spoke to cnn analyst peter goals and asked how feasible it is to operate at search depth. >> the depths of the ocean there is certain areally a challenge. 14,000 feet is by certainly not unworkable. the remote vehicles both tetherred and untetherred -- there are two types. the tetherred vehicles can operate at that depth and could retrieve the boxes. it's challenging but it can be done. it has been done in the past. >> so we still don't know -- it hasn't been confirmed, these pings. mr. goelz said and others have said the sounds are consist end with the pings that come from a
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commercial airliner. they do have challenges of the depth. you've been looking into that. >> that frequency 37.5 has been detected. we know of no natural sounds in the ocean that would send this out. take a look. depiction of the data recorder. that's the ping from the device, 37.5 khz. you see the battery capacity reaching the end of its life. it works to depths of 20,000 feet. the device, the ping locater towed along the ocean trying to locate this is one of multiple devices that's been able to locate it. the vessel that had two separate indications there was something emitting that signal down at depths. we look at what could be sending
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the signal 14,700 feet below the sea's surface. look at marine biology this portion of the world or anywhere on the planet ocean, 5% of the oceans have been mapped. 72% of our planet is water. 5% we have explored well. that's why a lot of uncertainties about what could be down there. maybe animal of marine nature, maybe the ping and device itself. officials say take it easy out there. we want to talk about this region. we have a tropical storm. general winds 50 miles per hour. the name has been debt ceiling dated to it ivanoe. it's going to push south of the search, not going to impact the area. the open water, 16 foot wave
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heights or five meter wave heights would disturb the surface and the ping they're using could be impacted. experts told us this is going to be bobbing back and forth in the ocean. that makes it more challenging especially when you consider the battery is reaching the end of the life and perhaps not sending the strongest signal out from the vessel. we've heard about the ping device sending signals intermittently. we know there are thermal events in the ocean that could impact the signal itself, perhaps cutting it off. that could explain why the signals are on and off. temperatures are drastic here a. >> that's interesting too. it does seem like a miracle the final hours perhaps that these batteries were working they may have found something. certainly hope the weather will
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cooperate with them in that storm won't affect them much. thank you. search officials are encouraged by these latest developments. for families of 239 on board the plane, there's still a lot of angui anguish. we are live with that. >> reporter: families are aware of the latest developments of the possible ping. many have watched the australian news conference. in general, they're taking a cautious approach. there have been so many false leads in the past. one chinese family member saying let's wait until something is confirmed. there have been questions about why the news broke from chinese media rather than from australians leading the search effort from the southern corridor. from the political point of view, china needs to appear strong for citizens in terms of
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finding answers since 154 on that plane are chinese citizens. now the australian head of the search agency, houston, said in the news conference he understands the reality of news getting ahead of him especially when you have reporters on the planes and ships. he said he's prepaired to accept the reality. he was down playing tension between china and australia saying he's happy with the way china was sharing information. he wanted to stress this is a complicated international effort. he wants to focus on positives, in this case positives of chasing this latest lead. cnn, beijing. oscar pistorius is back in court monday. coming up, why the olympian will likely not be the first to testify for the defense. q.
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we'll have more on the developments regarding the missing malaysian airliner in a moment. first a check of other stories we're following. the trial of oscar pistorius is set to return monday after a pause. the defense hopes to prove the olympian shot reeva stein camp by accident. >> after 15, 21 witnesses, week long adjournment, we expected oscar pistorius to be witness number 22. we now understand that's unlikely to be the case. his defense will not call him first but instead a pathologist. this is highly unusual in south african law because a judge could draw a negative inference if the accused does not come to the witness box. there appears to be a witness
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from both sets of witnesses that allows him to be witness one for the defense. it's likely pistorius will then take the stand after him which could be as soon as tuesday. >> robin from south africa. it has been 20 years since the massacre swept across rwanda. one fifth of the african population was wiped out. we have the story of one woman's slow determined pursuit of justice for what some call the world's swiftest genocide. >> morning comes to the ancient french city, the heartbeat of the district. 33 kings of france were crowned including the charles vii, led to core nation by none other
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than france's great heroin joan of arc. this is a modern day jomorning beginning adds its has 13 years. research for a horror 9,000 kilometers away. the name that still haunts her world rwanda. >> translator: i lost a lot of my family members. one day i would like the to sit down, count, and put a name to everyone. when we start counting it gives us vertigo. >> that emotional vertigo is the result of the mass slaughter we've been examining on this program. some call it swiftest genocide in history. it took place over a mere 100
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days back in 1994 when members of the majority wiped up to 800,000 to a million of the minority. men, women, children, 20% of the country's population was slaughtered. she was born and raised in rwanda trained as a chemical engineer. with her husband, a french teacher she met in her homeland almost 40 years ago, she's devoted her life to investigating the massacre of her people. one of the world's most heinous crimes. this past february, a former captain in the army was transported under heavy guard to paris, the first such trial in
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history. after five weeks of testimony in the landmark decision he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. the verdict was validation. their work goes on gathering evidence for new cases. they've exhausted savings and at times their health. they say it's strengthened their marriage and determination. >> translator: we don't feel hate towards those that committed the genocide. firstly because hate is useless and only hurts the one that feels it in his heart. and also because we believe in justice. >> justice is possible, he says. it wasn't an accident or tsunami. no, people were killed in rwanda
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well over the last several hour, we have been following several breaking developments in the mystery of malaysian flight 370. here's where we are right now. a senior malaysian government official tells cnn the flight flew north of indonesia and around indonesian air space. you can see the red dots tracing the path right there. during the journey to the southern indian ocean, the middle of nowhere, march 8th. the government source says the boeing 777 may have been
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deliberately flown along a route to avoid detection. meantime planes and ships are heading for an area chinese searchers have now device detected electronic pulse signals from the southern indian ocean. the australian ship ocean shield has also picked up acoustic noise as well. we could be closer to finding the so called black boxes. that is the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. cnn zane asher visited to find out how they store information and how that information is downloaded and read by investigators once its retrieved. >> crash protected and shock mounted. >> this is what investigators will see once the black boxes for flight 370 are found and data is downloaded for analysis. >> we'll see the data in
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graphical format. >> black boxes contain hundreds of data points or pe ram ters about the flight's movements, pilot maneuvers, speed and altitude, allel displayed with a series of graphs. >> every flight data a in order for humans to understand that, we need to convert it into engineering units and it simply means feet for altitude and air speed is recorded in knots. >> this right here is air speed, correct? >> that's correct. >> reporter: here as you see getting faster, that represents takeoff. >> yes. >> reporter: through graphs like this if somebody deliberately nose dived the aircraft or a mechanical problem. >> there would be all kind of indications. which engine turned off first, because of fuel starvation, they would know that versus if it would have been intentionally
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cut off. >> reporter: this line represents the plane's altitude. if it suddenly dropped to a lower altitude mid-flight, here is where we would see a change. if someone deliberately altered the flight path we would see this dip or rise depending on the direction. >> one of the moimportant thing is who was in control of the aircraft. you can see if they were coming from the auto pilot or the left seat or the right seat. in other words, the pilot or the co-pilot. >> reporter: use longitude and latitude positions to determine where the plane was located at any point during flight. >> memory module. >> reporter: although the memory chips are rarely ever damaged, airlines still need to perform regular flight data maintenance and preflight testing to make sure the black boxes are up to par. the biggest challenge now is to locate them before the batteries
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die. >> to find that pinger in those trenches or to find it after the pinger stopped in those trenches is going to be extremely difficult. >> reporter: cnn, buffalo, new york. that does it for this hour of "cnn newsroom." thank you for joining us. up next we'll join "new day" for the latest on the developments of flight 370. (dad) well, we've been thinking about it and we're just not sure. (agent) i understand. (dad) we've never sold a house before. (agent) i'll walk you guys through every step. (dad) so if we sell, do you think we can swing it? (agent) i have the numbers right here and based on the comps that i've found, the timing is perfect. ...there's a lot of buyers for a house like yours.
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breaking news for you on this sunday morning. thank you for spending time with us here. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. we want to welcome viewers to our special breaking news coverage of missing malaysian airlines flight 370. we are beginning with two major breaking developments that happened overnight, including startling new details about the jet's possible path. a senior malaysian government official tells cnn that flight 370 may have been flown on purpose along a route designed to avoid radar detection. >> look at this new map we put up for you. comes from a new analysis of radar data. this new flight path does that