a royal australian air force orion aircraft arrived in the area about 1:50 pm this afternoon. a further three aircraft have been tasked by rcc australia including a royal new zealand air force orion and the united states navy poseiden aircraft. the poseiden should be on the scene now. the second australian orion departed royal australian air force base pearce at 2:00 pm this afternoon and will be on scene at 6:00 pm this afternoon. the new zealand orion is due to depart at 4:00 pm this afternoon, and should be on scene at 8:00 p.m. a royal australian aircraft cis 30 herbinglies has been tasked to drop marker boys. these as rcc australia by providing information about water movement to assist in drift modelling. they will provide an ongoing reference point if the task of relocating the objects is protracted. a merchant ship that responded to a shipping broadcast issued by rccs australia on monday is expect to arrive in the area about 6:00 pm, having been diverted by rcc australia. the royal australian navy war ship hmas "success" is on route to the area but is some days away. sh

aircraft have been tasked by rcc australia to the area later today, including a royal new zealand air force orion and a united states navy poseidon air kraflt. the poseidon aircraft should be on scene now. the second australian orion departed at 2:00 this afternoon and should be on scene at 6:00 this afternoon. the new zealand orion is due to depart at 4:00 this afternoon and should be on scene at 8:00. a royal australian air force c-130 hercules aircraft has been tasked to drop data marker bu s buoys. they are providing information about water movement to assist in drift modeling. they will provide an ongoing reference point if the task of relocating the objects becomes protracted. a merchant ship that responded to a shipping broadcast issued by rcc australia on monday is expected to arrive in the area about 6:00, having been diverted by rcc australia. the royal australian warship hma success is on route to the area, but it's some days away. she is equipped to locate any objected located and proven to be from mh 370. the focus is to continue the search operation with all available ships and airc

a royal australian air force orion aircraft arrived in the area about 1:50 pm this afternoon. a further three aircraft have been tasked by rcc australia to the area later today including a royal new zealand air force orion and a united states navy poseiden aircraft. the poseiden aircraft should be on screen now. the second australian orion departed royal australian air force base pearce at 2:00 pm this afternoon, and should be on scene at 6:00 pm this afternoon. the new zealand orion is due to depart at 4:00 pm this afternoon and should be on scene at 8:00pm a royal australian air force c130 aircraft has been tasked by rcc australia to drop data marker buoys. they say marker buoys assist rcc australia to provide information about water movement to assist in drift modelling and will provide an ongoing reference point if the task of relocating the objects becomes protracted. a merchant ship that responded to a shipping broadcast issued by rcc australia on monday is expected to arrive in the area at 6:00 pm, having been diverted by rcc australia. the royal australian war ship hmas

have been found off the coast of australia telling parliament on thursday a royal australian air force orioneen diverted to the area. also joining them are three additional planes. it's going to be an intensive search even after they found the objects there is no word where they can be or why it's believed they could be part of the missing airliner. we've heard they are going to be searching west off the western coast of australia looking for the objects the plane has been missing since march 8th. we've seen loved ones screaming and crying, wanting to know what happened to the people they loved on that plane. this is something they can home foreclosure. don't know what the objects are if they're related to the plane. australia sending planes out to take a look at the objects . one expert said if they find they're parts of the airliner it's just the beginning they're going to have have to scour probably hundreds or thousands of miles of ocean to try to locate more pieces of the plane. it's been a couple weeks tlchl could be debris scattered in a wide area. they'll definitely be looking for th

however, he says, royal australian air force orion has been difficultered.t's expected to arrive in the area shortly. if and they have contacted the malaysia airlines authorities as well as malaysia authorities in malaysia to tell them about this. that's where we are with this search. sting, we don't know whether or not these two objects identified from a satellite has anything to do with the jet, but there's a possibility these objects do have something to do with it. >> when it comes to the n.c.a.a., nothing like a kinderela story, it's something no one saw coming. >> one or two, we know, are in the mix for cinderella much it's a story of someone who was an afterthought with the ultimate reward in the end. that's appropriate for the n.c.a.a. tournament. 68 teams, many from lesser known conference, seeded between 10-16. to dayton, tulsa, the shoot for the prize leads to exciting dreama-field upset. the cool drama is we know the upset is coming, but we don't know who will pull it off. >> president obama revealed his annual bracket, and appears not to be a bi

navy poseidon, a second royal australian air force orion and japanese orion are also en route to or in the search area. planes and ships continue to search the area for any sign of the missing aircraft. i caution again, mr. acting deputy speaker, that we don't know whether any of these objects are from mh-370. nevertheless, we are hopeful we can recover these objects soon and they will take us a step closer to resolving this tragic mystery. this is an extraordinary mystery, absolutely baffling mystery. but as i've said mr., mr. acting deputy speaker, let me reiterate to this house we owe it to the families of those on board. we owe it to the loved ones of those on board. we owe it to all the people concerned about this aircraft to do what we reasonably can to find anything that is out there to test it and to see what we can learn about whatsoever is one of the great mysteries of our time. >> tony abbott speaking to parliament in australia on the latest on that search. they have seen objects that hopefully will be retrieved by tomorrow morning. justify before we go, we are going to leav

he went on to say i can inform the house that a royal australian air force orion, an aircraft has been diverted to attempt to locate these objects. later we learned that aircraft has been on scene there for the better part of i'd say an hour and a half. maybe two and a half hours actually now. he went on to say that this orion ap 3, which is a four engine turboprop patrol aircraft that carries out submarine hunting for its normal work. maritime surveillance and other missions for the australian military is now there and a version of the aircraft is also used by the united states navy. this appeared on satellites that they went back to scour, as kathryn mentioned after the ntsb here in the united states said that it had reason to believe that's where they should be looking. lieutenant colonel dan hampton is on the line with us. it's as good a bit of information from as credible a source as we've received since march 8th when this jet disappeared. >> yeah, that's true, shepherd. and as i said from the very beginning, if i was going to try to lose an airplane, or disappear an airplane, th

he went on to say i can inform the house that a royal australian air force orion, an aircraft has been diverted to attempt to locate these objects. later we learned that aircraft has been on scene there for the better part of i'd say an hour and a half. maybe two and a half hours actually now. he went on to say that this orion ap 3, which is a four engine turboprop patrol aircraft that carries out submarine hunting for its normal work. maritime surveillance and other missions for the australian military is now there and a version of the aircraft is also used by the united states navy. this appeared on satellites that they went back to scour, as kathryn mentioned after the ntsb here in the united states said that it had reason to believe that's where they should be looking. lieutenant colonel dan hampton is on the line with us. it's as good a bit of information from as credible a source as we've received since march 8th when this jet disappeared. >> yeah, that's true, shepherd. and as i said from the very beginning, if i was going to try to lose an airplane, or disappear an airplane, th

navy poseidon, a second royal australian air force orion and japanese orion are also en route to or inearch area. >>> the smoke you can see is from a marker dropped to note where an object has been spotted floating in the ocean. it in turn helps toe determine the wind speed and current which in turn makes it easier for the ship to make contact. it gives us an idea how the search is being carried out at the moment. more now from lucy williamson. lucy, quite a few developments today. obviously for the families the way it goes on is very difficult if the plane goes down in the deep waters. >> it seems as if we're always on the verge of a break through. never more so than now perhaps. an australian ship in the area trying to pick up whatever was seen by the aircraft crew and bring it back for assessment. if indeed what was seen apart of the airliner it will be a break through. it will mean we know where it went down, where it ended up. that will help the search for the black box that could tell us the story of what happened. of course none of that is certain yet. more than two weeks after

royal new zealand air force orion and the u s navy keep it aside the study was expected to urge you to stop them the second party at orion was expected to depart it's for her for a mid afternoon the news you to read with you into the park this afternoon. afc west that you should use the carpet in cost by darcy smith predicted drop it to make the mako boards two assists in truth wanted they will provide an ongoing reference point of the cost of the gt dubbed it becomes protected. emergency. there is one that should be more cards issued by us use your freedom. monday was also expected to arrive in the area itself. the russian navy ship hmas success is on the area. and something easily. this is broken to cover any object that it is a program to be drawn at eight three seconds. every effort is being made to the cape york to suit contends that the right imagery. it must be stressed that the seconds while credible. i still have the info. four and tasty seventy is a multi national effort. i would not give you an update on the assets which have been deployed. during the course of these operati

a republic of korea p-3 orion, and c-130 hercules aircraft. a royal new zealand air forcerion, a chinese people's liberation air force. a united states navy poseidon aircraft and one australian civil jet acting as a communications relay. four of the ten aircraft are overhead in the search area as we speak, with the further six planes to fly over the area today. a further royal air force p-3 orion has been placed on standby at the royal air force base in pierce to relay any new sightings, six air ships are sent to the area, including hms ships and five chinese ships and success is expected to arrive late tomorrow night. additionally, the maritime safety ship is in the search area. and i might add that we know her quite well, she visited sidney last year in order to support regional maritime safety conference and we had the opportunity to do a search and rescue exercise with that ship. the united states towed pinger locater, and a blue 21 vehicle have arrived in perth to assist with the location and recovery of the black box. these will be fitted to the australian defense ve

i can inform the house, that an australian air force orion has been diverted to attempt to locate the objects. >> all search planes three from the military one from new zealands are taking turns to search the relative lunare row area. a commercial ship has also been diverted to look, an australian naval vessel is on rout. but with moving water and poor visibility, getting human eyes to identify the objects one way or another, is still a difficult task. >> it is a ten hour flight. over the indian ocean, where search efforts for the boeing triple seven are now being concentrated. >> where possible debris from flight image 370 may have been slighted. a range of 240-kilometers and a metal detector means crews aren't relying on just their eyesight to pick up objects. >> now i have the radar looking out ahead of us. in a certain mode. that allows us to look for little parts. little pieces of debris. >> . >> the draw on this flight, know what they are up against. every minute counts. especially for families that have been waiting for two weeks with no news. finding the plane means search tea

a royal new zealand air force orion and a u.s. navy p-8 poseidon. expected to arrive earlier this afternoon. the second raaf orion was expected to arrive the base at perth midafternoon. the new zealand orion was due to depart this afternoon. an raaf c-130 hercules aircraft has been tasked by rcc central you to drop data mark-up buoys to provide an ongoing reference point if the task of relocating the objects becomes perfected. they responded to shipping broadcast issued by rcc australia on monday, was also expected to arrive in the area this afternoon. the royal australian navy ship "hms success" is on route to the area but is some days away. the ship is well equipped to recover any objects located and proven to be from mh-370. every effort is being made to locate the objects seen in the satellite imagery. it must be stressed that these sightings, while credible, are still to be confirmed. the search for mh-370 is a multinational effort. i will now give you an update on the assets which have been deployed. during the course of this operation, the ch

they are two royal australian air force p-3 orions. a japanese coast guard gulf stream 5 jet. se p-3 orion. a republic of korea p-3 orion and c-130 hercules aircraft. a royal new zealand air force p-3 orion. a chinese people liberation army aircraft. a united states navy p-8 poseidon aircraft, and one australian civil jet acting as a communications relay. four of the ten aircraft are overhead in the search area as we speak. with a further six planes to fly over the area today. a further p-3 orion has been placed on stand by at the royal air force base in western australia to investigate any reported sightings. six ships are relocating to the new search area, including five chinese ships, and is expected to arrive in the search area tomorrow night. the chinese patrol ship is in the search area. the united states towed pinger locater and a bluefin 21 autonomous underwater vehicle have arrived in perth to assist in the location and recovery of the black box. these will be fitted to an australian defense vessel, which will arrive in the coming days. and the depth of the water in th

. >> i took off with squadron 5 on the new zealand air force orion with high tech equipment. it took four hours to reach the search location and we scoured the sea for three hours before making the return journey. weather was particularly turbulent. cloud cover was sitting at 100 metres above the sea surface, so the pilot of the orion had to sit under the cloud cover as eight sets of eyes looked out of windows for three hours scouring the vast indian ocean. >> what kind of technology was used other than eyeballs to try to find the plane. >> well, this orion has been updated with the latest high-tech surveillance equipment, and it's highly classified so you can appreciate i can't go into it in too much detail. i've been sworn to secrecy to what i saw on board. certainly if there was anything there, it would have been detected by this equipment. there were several possible contacts made that once we went down and took a closer look, a hundred metres above the surface of the sea, we had no results. was it disappointing - it was a disappointing return for the squadron. they had h

i can inform the house that australian air force orion has been alerted to attempt to locate the objectsncy ship in the area has responded and is also on the way to the scene. the australian maritime safety authority says the possible pieces of debris, one of which is said to be as much as 78 feet long, have been spotted approximately 1500 miles southwest of perth, australia. abc's david curley has been following the search for flight 370 from the very beginning. >> david is joining us now to give us some perspective on where this is taking place. >> reporter: the satellite, according to the prime minister, has seen one piece, that was at least 24 meters across, which is a pretty big piece of debris, and then many smaller pieces. so now the p8 from the united states and the p3, another aircraft the australians are flying, are going to fly over this area where the satellite saw this and take pictures. and those pictures will then come back and they will analyze, is this looking like a fussile lodge or debris from a 777. if that's the case, then vessels will be heading to the same area, tr

i can inform the house that a royal australian air force orion has been diverted to attempt to locate the objects. this orion is expected to arrive in the area about this time. three more aircraft will follow this orion. they are tasked for more intensive followup search. we're also hearing there will be a press conference coming from sho shortly. the information is coming from the prime minister. it is almost midnight here in the united states eastern time, and it's almost noon in perth, australia. i want to go now to mary schiavo. she is standing by now. again, this is a very significant development. i don't think australia would be doing this if they didn't think there was some importance to this, mary. >> oh, i agree. i am sure they realize how important, even if this is the wreckage, even if it's the very first piece, the clue also tumble forth, was there a fire, an explosion, do they have the pitting p pitting patterns. the evidence can finally start, and most important they can take where the pieces are, reverse the current track, find out where the currents have led over the p

he went on to say i can inform the house that a royal australian air force orion, an aircraft has been diverted to attempt to locate these objects. later we learned that aircraft has been on scene there for the better part of i'd say an hour and a half. maybe two and a half hours actually now. he went on to say that this orion ap 3, which is a four engine turboprop patrol aircraft that carries out submarine hunting for its normal work. maritime surveillance and other missions for the australian military is now there and a version of the aircraft is also used by the united states navy. this appeared on satellites that they went back to scour, as kathryn mentioned after the ntsb here in the united states said that it had reason to believe that's where they should be looking. lieutenant colonel dan hampton is on the line with us. it's as good a bit of information from as credible a source as we've received since march 8th when this jet disappeared. >> yeah, that's true, shepherd. and as i said from the very beginning, if i was going to try to lose an airplane, or disappear an airplane, th

anre is one orion, australian air force orion. on and theand ori u.s.n play in an emergent ship eating diverted and an australian naval vessel. but those ships more slowly, obviously, and they will take a few days to get there. it is important to stress, though, the maritime safety authority said this as well -- they are not raising hopes. this object may not even be related to the search. lead,oung called it a and it is the best league we have right now. we have a, when night better idea of what these objects actually are? the sun has gone down in sydney and it will be getting dark in western australia. plus the search area is a long way away. perth is one of the most cities on earth. the search area is 2500 kilometers west of that. the weather down there is good, but the visibility is very poor. in terms of what we might hear something, the maritime safety authority said maybe today, maybe tomorrow. but it is very difficult to tell. once again, they were sort of calling for everybody to keep calm head. there were many false leads before in the search

briefing going on from the captain of an australian air force plane, even though you're seeing a canadian insignia there. a royal air force p-3 orion just landed just a few minutes ago. just what i could catch from the press conference, they were on the location for about three, two hours or so, so they were down there. i'm not sure whether they have seen any debris. usually in these cases, when the pilots do come out and talk to us, it's always been they haven't seen any debris. so, we can't take any further forward on this new news from the thai satellite seeing some 300 pieces of debris. that could be another very important sighting. they continue to mount up, these sightings. just yesterday it was 122 pieces seen by a french private satellite. now, aviation analysts are telling us that could indicate a debris field. 300 pieces of debris could indicate a debris field. they're all around about this same area. this is crucial. but what is so frustrating is, as you were saying, the flights called off today because of weather, bad, bad weather. was described to us by one of the u.s. navy p-8 aircraft as being severe turbulence. visi

navy poseidon, a second australian air force orion and japanese orion were also on route to the search area. >> i caution again, mr. acting deputy speaker, we don't know whether any of these objects are from mh 370. they could be flotsam. >> reporter: earlier in the day chinese search reported objections in the australian search area but not in the vicinity of the objects identified by australian authorities last week. that part of the indian ocean is known for accumulation of debrises clumped together by currents and eddies dominate in the indian ocean. martha. martha: who knows until they get there and get a good look at it there is new information they're learning about the pilot, right? >> reporter: we're learning malaysian authorities are finally interviewing the estranged wife of pilot after two weeks. they were separated but shared the house with the two children. the authorities resisted interviewing her out of cultural reasons. the fbi urged them to go ahead given urgency of the investigation. there is more information about the mystery phone call the pilot received before tak

he's on one of those australian air force pc-3 orions which has been on the site for two hours or so. it probably would still be there before turning around in about an hour or so. >> so we will get confirmation one way or another from him, as to whether they've seen anything, whether there's reports of anything in the water. that's about 8:00 local time, about five hours from now. >> thank you, andrew stevens from just outside perth. we'll be speaking with andrew in about 30 minutes from now for yet another update. meantime, we're following developments in kuala lumpur. i guess this is an emotional roller coaster ride for the families and the friends of those who were on board this plane. relief and all sorts of emotions now running through their minds. >> yeah, they've had their hopes raised and crushed so many times. so i think they're taking this cautiously, this news. what we understand what the further of one of the passengers on board, he spoke briefly to the press, saying simply that he and other family members have been notified of this finding by malaysia airlines authoritie

. >> search planes including this royal new zealand air force orion are over the area right now finding difficult locating the wreckage is starting to set in. >> but working in one of the most remote areas, the search teams are confident they will get the job done. abc's devin dwyer joins us with details. devin? >> reporter: investigators say they are heartened by these new leads but still a painstaking search. the area of focus is a three-hour flight from land to some of the world's most deepest and roughest seas. u.s. and australian search teams say they're hot on the trail of flight 370. high-tech planes are scanning the open seas almost 1500 miles from the australian coast. their target, two large objects seen in newly-released satellite images. possible debris. one piece as big as 78 feet. >> those images were taken four days ago. those parts are no longer where the pictures were taken. it is not a simple task. >> reporter: search crews dropped marking buoys. to see how far debris may have drifted. it's painstaking work without certainty the debris in those images is even related t

air see equally complicated. three orion military intelligence planes two from the royal australia air force and one from new zealand have been dispatched with large area search sensors and radar. planes capable of low level flight that can stay aborn up to ten hours. the u.s. navy has sent a p-8 poseidon with a unique capability. >> this aircraft can in essence be the controller of a fleet of drums. it can go up above 20,000 feet or even depending on what they're doing, then it can control a fleet of drones as they look at very specific areas of the ocean. >> reporter: it's also a war fighting plane, but in this mission it's the plane's underwater detection capabilities that are especially important including dropping sonar buoys to try to locate debris. the australian air force is providing a c-130 transport plane but leighton says it probably won't be used for searching. >> they can use it to determine the types of things they can see in the electro magnetic environment. for example if there's a black box out there. >> reporter: merchant ships have also been dispatched. the nor weej ya car carrier was the first t

like the one we just flew with, the men and women from the royal new zealand air force, squadron number 5. they fly a p-3 orion plane that normally hunts for submarines but right now they're using all that technology to hunt for anything that might be traced back to malaysia 370. but, unfortunately, a lot of the so-called debris we thought we were looking at like this rather large piece big enough for a seagull to land on often turns out to be nothing more than seaweed. it happens over and over again, and it's an enormous letdown, but there was one moment where we had a promising lead. >> mark, mark, mark. light blue object. port side approximately two feet by three feet partially submerged. >> that would be pretty huge because it would give -- it would really be the first step in getting a lot of answers. >> reporter: every object that is seen is reported to the command center which then will send a ship to take a closer look from the surface of the ocean. that search will resume as soon as the weather clears. clayton sandell, abc news, perth, australia. >> thank you, clayton. just learning about more possibl

air force. our call sign, rescue 103. this p-3 orion, it's old. but it's still one of the best sub hunters ever made. >> our search area is 1,100 miles to the southwest. >> reporter: like everyone else out today, we're chasing whatever it was in that chinese satellite image. promising pings from the radar. but getting a visual -- forget it. even at 250 feet, the cloud cover is too thick. it's been a problem all week. >> this is the poorest day we've had. >> reporter: we circle back three times to that spot, but no visuals. so, they pass the radar contact onto an australian warship nearby. and get back to searching our assigned grid. the new leads, including those unidentified objects located by a french satellite, may have narrowed the search area, but it's still tough going. we've been out three hours and there's just enough fuel to get back, but one final chance here, number eight. an earlier radar contact to check out. we're almost on top of it. even if they do find a debris field on the surface, the heavy wreckage would likely be miles away an

. >>> live look at the p3 orion from the royal australian air force just returning after searching this indian ocean. we're expecting a press conference led by lieutenant russell adams in just a few moments updating if pilots saw anything of interest, if they've marked anything. we know that they drop a smoke flare and then drop a gps unit in any case that they see something that hopefully the ships can get to to determine if it is part of malaysian airline 370. >> that pinger locater we have been talking about this morning is the best chance of recovering wreckage from flight 370, if it is there. >> the device is being fitted on to an australian ship today. the ocean shield along with special underwater vehicles, as well. scheduled to depart for the search area some time tomorrow. paula newton is live in perth, australia. you were onboard "ocean shield" earlier today. tell us about it. >> busy day onboard and also a sobering day. i think, victor, when you look at all that equipment and we discussed the bluefin-21 and underwater submergible and it can actually comb the sea bed and then

the royal navy and air force have deployed assets to the southern corridor. australia has moved and orionaft to the region. australia will send an additional two aircraft. an orion and a hercules. we have been working with international investigators and authorities since day one. china has joined the investigation team. officials from the french office of investigations also joined the team. these authorities are working with malaysian airlines. they can help with the search. saturday, investigations were started into all crew on board, including the pilot and copilot as well as those handling the aircraft. the family members of the pilot and copilot were interviewed. the pilot's flight simulator was taken from his house. the simulator was reassembled. cooperating with the fbi in support and other relevant international authorities. theuld like to address accusations that we have held back information about flight 370. our priority has always been to find the aircraft. we would not withhold any information. we also have a responsibility not to release information until it has been verifi

poseidon aircraft should be on scene now, the second, the royal air force base should be on scene at 6:00 p.m. this afternoon. the new zealand orionepart at 4:00 p.m. this afternoon and should be on scene at 8:00 p.m. a royal australian air force c-130 hercules aircraft has been tasked by rcc australia to drop data markers. they are providing information about water movement to assist in drift modelling. they will provide an ongoing reference point. if the task of relocating the object becomes protracted. the deployment on monday is expected to arrive in the area of 6:00 p.m. having been diverted by rcc australia. the royal australian navy war ship is enroute to the area but is some days away. she is equipped to recover any objects located and proven to be from 370. the focus is to continue the search operation with all available ships and aircraft. the ships and aircraft are searching for any signs of the missing aircraft. weather conditions are moderate in the southern indian ocean where the search is taking place. however, poor visibility has been reported and this will hamper both air and satellite effort. there continues to b

well, the reason for that is, the only barrier, the orion that has that, the royal air force doesn'tuestion from facebook. it is possible for a plane this size to fly undetected and land without anyone's knowledge? i listen to the general he does make a compelling case i have a note from my radio producer said he scares him. >> i know pilots who accidentally landed a boeing 737 in an airport in wisconsin, nobody knew it. >> seriously? >> they got caught because the flight attendants reported them to the company. >> that can happen. and you have shadowing. if you're near high terrain, the airplane cannot be picked up because of the mountains or the hills behind it are going to cause radar not to pick up the airplane in front of it >> mike? >> quickly basic radar theory, transform works on secondary. transponder only work out to about 200 miles, after that, trance atlantic flights are off dropped off the radar. and air traffic control has to use acrs. >> all right. back to our questions on facebook. jason anderson asked why can't they track 200 cell phones? it's a good question in the

air force arrived in the area at about 10:50 a.m. sent toaircraft was the area, including a second raf orion, a royal new zealand or, and a u.s.navy poseidon. the poseidon was expected to arrive early this afternoon. the second orion was expected to midafternoon. the new zealand orion was due to depart this afternoon. the hercules aircraft has been markup todrop beta assist in drift modeling. they will provide efforts the task of relocating the efforts becomes protected. there is on it to a broadcast australia monday, was also expected to arrive in the area this afternoon. the royal navy ship is en route to the area. the ship is well lakota to recover any -- as well it kept to recover any objects of mh370. every effort is being made to obtain the object seen in the satellite imagery. it must be stressed that these discoveries, while credible, discerned.yet to be during the course of operation, the chief of the defense force has spoken to his counterpart from countries including australia, china, india, indonesia, japan, nepal, new zealand, singapore, thailand, vietnam, and the u.k., and the usa. allwere very supportive and off

orions. they need to be looking. the u.s. air force have mc-130s, they can stay on station a lot longer. >> is a days after malaysia airlines flight 370 vanished, there's a sense searchers are working against the clock. we won't know exactly what happened to the people on the plane until we find some wreckage and the critical flight data recorder. jamie? >> thank you, mike emanuel. eric? >>> jamie, an airliner flies silently for hours, no one hears anything from the passengers. it's happened before with the tragic results in 200 when a helios airways boeing 737 flew at 35,000 feet when a slow decompression caused the passengers and the crew to slowly lose consciousness and kill everyone on board. the helios was on its way from cyprus to prague. it continued about three hours on autopilot until it finally ran out of fuel. it under on out the automatic oxygen system was not turned on, and the pilots never realized it. officials say all on board died of hypoxia, the lack of oxygen at the high altitude. could flight 370 have suffered a sim

they don't have their own air force so nato runs their air patrols for them. they'll run f-16s, possibly p-3 orionsup you'll have a u.s. destroyer coming to the black sea. to be clear, that was previously scheduled, a routine trip but they'll keep it going. when you look at the map now, you have extra planes here, a few here, a navy ship here. a bit of a pincer movement to demonstrate this. this is not kinetic, they won't fire any guns or put boots on the ground. >> and these are nato allies that we're talking about, poland and the baltic states. but one of the things talking about this with the special u.n. envoy, the miscalculation, that's what everybody is worried about. that this could explode because some low level types could perhaps start killing people. >> sure. and we saw that the other day at the airfield where we had the ukrainian soldiers marching out, the russian soldiers firing shots. imagine where we'd be right now if that had termed, as jim said, into a kinetic operation. >> for some people are already concluding for all practical purposes putin has won. he's got crimea, in effect,

we have a fleet of p3 orions and they need to be out there looking. the u.s. air force130s with aerial refueling that can stay on station longer than the p3s. that needs to be moved in the area to help identify was on the surface. >> now, alan, as you may know, the sailors call this stretch of the indian ocean the roaring 40s, both for its latitude on the globe but also for very rough seas and high winds. what do you think are the chances given the fact that the satellite images are days old, one that you can find where they are and if it's parts of the plane you can retrace over the two weeks all the way back to the crash site? >> well, that is still going to be problematic, even if it does turn out to be part of the aircraft, for the tides and winds and so on. we've seen this before in 1987, the south african lost a 747 that was talking to air traffic control when it went down. it was an on board fire. they didn't get out there time to find the pingers and it took them two years. just like with air france in the south atlantic. this is probably going to be a very long

air force base in perth. i understand the japanese are going to commit a couple of orions as well.hile the rhetoric from the prime minister may be a little bit softening, a little bit of caution, at the same time, the actual military assets, the commercial assets are being ramped up. >> in terms of we heard from searchers they will not be using radar in that area, just their eyes. is that a good idea in your opinion? >> well, look, i think it's possibly been a little bit misconstrued there. because they're still using radar. but they're using their eyes as well. because a lot of this debris would not be picked up by radar. seat cushions from an airplane, pieces of plastic. all those sort of items that would float are not necessarily radar friendly if you like. and so they're using both. and they're also using experts at spotting. and people who really can identify things at long distances. so it's a combination of assets here. >> and to your knowledge, are they sending back in real time high resolution photographic images that other people in australia are looking at in real time,

cbs news flew on a p-3 orion search plane today with the new zealand air force. 1,500 miles off australia's west coast, they were just a few hundred feet over the sea, combing the waters for fragments of the malaysian airlines jet. >> this is affecting a lot of people. definitely to come out and put some closure on something for them, you know, would be awesome. >> reporter: an australian naval ship and a chinese icebreaker are also in the search area, carrying out a surface sweep. the search zone has been narrowed down with the help of satellite data, but it's still roughly the size of alaska. experts believe most of the plane's wreckage possibly sank, so the crews here are hunting for clues that will help them find an underwater debris field. that's when they'll begin to use this american robotic submarine. it uses sonar to locate objects up to 20,000 feet under the ocean surface. the u.s. navy has also sent something called a toad pinger located to australia which hones in on sounds emitted by the plane's black boxes. if they can be found, investigators may finally discover why flight 37

air force base in perth. i understand the japanese are going to commit a couple of o orions as well.while the prime minister talk may be softening, the commercial assets are being ramped up. >> in terms of we heard from searchers they will not be using radar in that area, just their eyes. is that a good idea in your opinion? >> well, look, i think it's possibly been a little bit misconstrued there. because they're still using radar. but they're using their eyes as well. because a lot of this debris would not be picked up by radar. seat cushions from an airplane, pieces of plastic. all those sort of items that would float are not necessarily radar friendly if you like. and so they're using both. and they're also using experts at spotting. and people who really can identify things at long distances. so it's a combination of assets here. >> and to your knowledge, are they sending back in real time high resolution photographic images that other people in australia are looking at in real time, or is this all being done by the platforms that are out there? >> obviously they're doing it --

anderson, that yet from one of the orions, they spotted an orange object and a green object and we also know photographs were taken of those objects by the australian air forcehose pictures have not been released. my sense is that the defense minister to make a special trip here to perth and have a special media briefing he may be revealing that these objects have been identified as from this airplane. that's just my speculation on it. but i don't think the minister would come all the way across here and have a special announcement without something major to say. >> we don't know. and we'll know in 17 minutes or so. but you believe he must have something significant to say for him to come all the way? >> that is my sense. it's like the prime minister of australia, tony abbott a week ago is getting up in parliament and saying we have photographs of wreckage. for him to say that, again, he was backed by intelligence that said, we really are on to something here. we know what we're doing. and so, again, for a defense minister, whether in australia or malaysia or the united states to get up and make a special announcement, it has to be something significant. >>

orion, one of the top marine patrol air craft. militaries can use that jet from submarine hunting to monitoring shipping lanes. this is the c130 hercules, the australian air forceft to drop marker buoys in the water. this is one of those buoys being dropped out. they keep track of the ocean current. the experts onboard are still facing a really very remote search area. to say it's in the middle of nowhere is the understatement of the day. look how far away this possible debris is in relation to where the plane took off. call la lamb pure. this -- kuala lumpur. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon to what degree is the pentagon certain or how cautious are they about what this is and the it? >> well, shep, u.s. officials tell us that the lead seemed credible enough from the satellite images and that's why they moved their state-of-the-art p8 there to help. the alleged debris field is halfway between australia and the antarctic a, senior us officials tell me this is the best lead they have had so far but did not come from u.s. military or intelligence assets. the australians obtained these satellite images from the american satellite company digital globe. the

air force base. the winds will be fairly light. the ocean heights, lying down a little bit. this is good. we'll have two, maybe we can squeak out three days whereas they take those poseidons and the orionsing at the ocean where they can have a good look at the sea. it will be a lot calmer over what we see. back to you. >> thanks. the newly wed who shoved her husband off a steep cliff. >> this drew global attention after a surprise guilty plea by 22-year-old jordan graham. you see her on the left. she admitted pushing her husband of eight days to his death. >> in her plea she told the judge she had had second thoughts about the marriage. that she and her husband had been arguing before the incident. the victim's family had asked the judge to sentence her to life in prison. >> we have something much, much more uplifting. in paris where couples often leave behind a pad lock on city bridges. >> a symbol of their love they hope will remain for decades. now a new campaign called no love locks may put a stop to that. >> reporter: paris, often called the city of love. couple come from all over the world to visit the local landmark. many leave behind pad locks attached to the bridge as a symbol