. >> reporter: but as a former indian navy commander who served his country for two decades in this archipelago2 islands stretching 500 miles in the indian ocean. >> right now from sumatra, 60, 70 miles. you can go malaga strait from these islands. >> reporter: post famous for its untouched beaches, reserved forests and indigenous tribes who still hunt and gather, 94% of those islands are uninhabited or off-limits to people. no one here believes the theory that the malaysian airplane was hijacked and deliberately headed towards the andamens. >> after landing somewhere over here? it is not possible. want my frank opinion? i don't think it is here. >> reporter: for daze the indian navy and air force have been searching an area spanning more than 250,000 square kilometers near the 100,000 square miles from the andamen sea to the bay of bengal. this is the navy dockyard from which the indian operation was launched. over there you can see the coast guard vessels. these vessels have been combing the length of the andaman islands all the way south towards malaga straits since thursday. after reporting

the indian navy, the indian air force has joined u.s.long with a very advanced u.s. surveillance plane, a poseidon, as it's called. they're looking for the ship where they expect to find it, and it's no longer thought to be in the south china sea, but in the massive indian ocean. poppy? >> and i think, jim, that that is the key here. they've changed the area where they're searching to the indian ocean, a much, much larger area. and again, they seem to be working off this supposition that the plane was flown in that direction. there wasn't some catastrophic failure that blew it from the sky at its last point of radar contact, which would have been to the east of malaysia. again, that seems to be the direction they're heading right now with developments happening really by the hour here. our jim clancy in kuala lumpur, thanks very much. >>> now let's take you to london, where a meeting is about to get under way between secretary of state john kerry and his russian count party, sergey lavrov. the two set to discuss the crisis in ukraine ami

she can tell us about the resources that the indian navy is sending to the indian ocean. what's going on? rep an extraordinary turn of events as the search continues to expand rather than narrow down. as far as we understand, the indian navy dispatched two of the ships off the islands. this also tallies up with what the united states is saying it's doing now. they are also deploying one aircraft from the indian navy. another aircraft, a hercules transport carrier and various other aircraft. both to the aircraft and naval ship fleets we have seen from the multinational search operation. what is extraordinary is they have been discussing this expansion of the area being searched. it was already 27,000 square nautical miles. a huge expansive sea alone not including the land being searched for the missing plane. mh 370. this is going further west. what is extraordinary is that we simply don't know where this plane could have ended up. did it end up on the east of malaysia or out to the south china sea which is the course it should have taken had it gone all the way to beijing

my frank opinion, i don't think it is here. >> reporter: for days, the indian navy and air force haven searching in areas spanning more than 250,000 square kilometers near the 100,000 square miles from the andaman sea to the bay of bengal. >> reporter: this is where the indian operation was launched. over there you can see the coast guard vessels. these vessels have been combing the length of the andaman islands toward the malacca strait since thursday. after reporting no sightings, india's military search was temporarily suspended on sunday before passenger ships, the search request still stands. cnn, port blair, india. >> just seems odd, doesn't it, a ship just plowing through a massive ocean and looking. just imagine what this is like for the loved ones who are still waiting. all these changes and theories and yet these families just waiting for anything. anything. of what happened to these people on flight 370. and just ahead, you're going to hear from significant other phillip wood, an american on board that plane. she's going to tell you what she thinks happened and how she is p

the indian navy took some delivery. the australian navy - i wasn't aware of that one - but they have. it's new into the seniors. the appointment -- p 3 poseiden is to replace the p3 orion. the p3 orion would have state of the art equipment. the p8 poseiden would have more state of the art equipment. >> scott hamilton from lee ham company. i want to go to lisa stark, joining us from washington. we talked about china and the satellite images that turned out to be nothing. how significant do you think the announcement is, coming this morning? >> if you remember, there was a lot of confusion about the chinese images, and china said they never released them and at some point it seemed it may have been a hoax. this is more credible, according the to australians. they have had experts look at the satellite images. they didn't show the media what the images looked like or describe them particularly, except to say there were at least two objects. and during the news conference, the maritime authority in australia indicated that -

i have learned that indian navy ships supported by surveillance planes and helicopters have been scouring the areas without any success in finding any sign of this missing plane. the indian coast guardofficial e expanded farther west into the bay of b nee gal. they are looking it the bay of bengal and the coast searching for the missing plane. we are monitoring the news conference and we will send it back to you and let you know if we will get any new word. >> a 27-year-old usc graduate may be among the 239 people missing. they confirmed that the description published in the chinese newspaper is a match. the birthday found in the flight man manifest is a match. he was working for shell oil in beijing. we are waiting any moment for a news conference with this official announcement for the malaysian officials that the plane was hijacked. that's what we expect him to say. we will bring that to you as soon as it happens, but our reporting continues on twitter on abc7 news bay area. >> investigators are in castro valley where a woman was found dead in her house. her daughter discovered the bod

i have learned that indian navy ships supported by surveillance planes and helicopters have been scouringas without any success in finding any sign of this missing plane. the indian coast guard official says they have expanded farther west into the bay of b nee gal. they are looking it the bay of bengal and the coast searching for the missing plane. we are monitoring the news conference and we will send it back to you and let you know if we will get any new word. >> a 27-year-old usc graduate may be among the 239 people missing. they confirmed that the description published in the chinese newspaper is a match. the birthday found in the flight man manifest is a match. he was working for shell oil in beijing. we are waiting any moment for a news conference with this official announcement for the malaysian officials that the plane was hijacked. that's what we expect him to say. we will bring that to you as soon as it happens, but our reporting continues on twitter on abc7 news bay area. >> investigators are in castro valley where a woman was found dead in her house. her daughter discovered t

i have learned that indian navy ships supported by surveillance planes and helicopters have been scouringas without any success in finding any sign of this missing plane. the indian coast guard official says they have expanded farther west into the bay of b nee gal. they are looking it the bay of bengal and the coast searching for the missing plane. we are monitoring the news conference and we will send it back to you and let you know if we will get any new word. >> a 27-year-old usc graduate may be among the 239 people missing. they confirmed that the description published in the chinese newspaper is a match. the birthday found in the flight man manifest is a match. he was working for shell oil in beijing. we are waiting any moment for a news conference with this official announcement for the malaysian officials that the plane was hijacked. that's what we expect him to say. we will bring that to you as soon as it happens, but our reporting continues on twitter on abc7 news bay area. >> investigators are in castro valley where a woman was found dead in her house. her daughter discovered t

meanwhile, the indian navy is pulling back, suspended its search, though the "uss kidd" destroyer continues searching a massive body of water along with anti-submarine aircraft from the bay of bengal to malaysia. >> just to give you some context as to the size of that area, if you superimposed a picture of the united states in this area between india and malaysia, it would almost be like looking for one person somewhere between new york and california. >> reporter: but ten days since flight 370 disappeared, veteran investigators now say it's possible the plane and its passengers may never be found. >> it may be that somewhere down the road, a month from now, three months from now, a year from now, there may be debris that washes up on the beach some place that will be identifying the airplane. but we will never be able to track it back to find the actual debris site if it's in deep ocean. >> reporter: yeah, making it even more challenging, the indian ocean is the third's deepest and ocean currents can shift every day. also, the underwater pingers on the black boxes only have 30 days of batt

to the gulf of thailand, to the west, the strait of malacca, and the sea, with the indian navy joining the search pursuing the theory that the plane did double back. the images are correct they will focus on whether or not the crash was human error or something else. and keep in mind u.s. intelligence agencies say the u.s. satellites did not pick up any indication of an explosion in the sky that night. i spoke to authorities, their radar shows the plane made a jar to the right, part of the normal flight pattern to beijing, then dropped off the radar, the transponder stopped responding and the crews stopped responding to radio calls. u.s. military and intelligence agencies tell nbc news they have no information on the chinese images. importantly, the chinese have been vocal on their criticism of the malaysians and how the search was conducted. ann, back to you. >> all right, tom, thank you, we're joined by aviation expert greg fife, a senior air specialist with the national transportation safety board, a man who is highly experienced and a veteran pilot. greg, thank you for joining us.

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indian ocean. >> that's a pretty significant development if the u.s. navy'smoving that search operation toward the indian ocean. let's discuss what we just heard. a former ntsb joining us now. what do you make of what we just heard from jay carney, by the way? >> well, i understand that the ntsb investigators they're working with the malaysian investigators. and based on looking at radar data they have, they believe the search area should be expanded. i haven't heard where exactly, but they show expansion -- >> yesterday one of the commanders of the u.s. navy seventh fleet said they were moving that search area west of malaysian. and now we're hearing from the white house they're moving it all the way into the indian ocean. so if you lose the transponder at one point, but then the plane is continuing to fly reverse course, fly over malaysia and head towards the indian ocean, what does that say to you? >> well, it could be anything. clearly there could be some type of incapacitation of pilots, they reprogrammed to get back and kept ongoing. >> so one theory th

you just heard from the commander, major shift westward along with the indian navy now being asked toarticipate in the search. what do you make of that? the commander describing this as shifting the search from the chess board to the football field. >> the search area certainly has gotten wider. but what's frustrating in this whole endeavor, this should have been four days ago. this delayed start into this process is really crazy. you can see now how quickly things are developing since we've included the international community in the efforts to find this airplane. the radar data that's all of a sudden we're getting lots of information off the radar data. we've got lots of things to explore. it may not be the answer. we may not find it. but we have more opportunity and more leads to follow. >> that could have been done days ago? >> yes. it should have been done from the very beginning. the very beginning. they should have mobilized. the international community is always willing to jump in and help. the united states through the ntsb and state department and all the agencies we have, f

meanwhile, the indian navy is pulling back, suspending its search. >> 3 nautical miles out. >> reporter: though the u.s. destroyer continuing searching a massive stretch of water. >> just to give you some context as to the size of that area, you super impose a picture of the united states in this area between india and malaysia, it's almost like you're looking for one person somewhere between new york and california. >> reporter: but ten days since flight 370 disappeared, veterans say it's possible the plane and its passengers may never be found. >> it may be that somewhere down the road, a month from now, three months from now, a year from now, there may be debris that washes up on the beach someplace that will be identifying the airplane, but we will never be able to track it back to find the actual debris site if it's in deep ocean. >> again, that was tom costello reporting. for the families of passengers, the last week and a half has been beyond difficult. at a meeting in beijing with representatives from malaysian airlines, family and friends were furious. and officials with malays

this facility is largely occupied and used by the indian navy. look at the houses. if you have a plane of this size, it needs about 4,000 feet of runway to land. that is about 11,000 feet long. 6,000 to take off. it could take off from a runway that size. here's the problem though. it's impossible for it to happen with nobody noticing. you see the houses and the you know the navy is operating there. the air forces operating there. how do you take a plane that is 200 feet long and 200 feet wide even if it made it and put it on the ground with nobody noticing or making a phone call or saying anything? that's one of the reasons that officials are saying look, maybe something headed this way, but if it was this plane, it did not arrive. it has not been seen by anyone. that's one of the reason yes we have to keep looking in that first search area so strongly. that's where we know the plane was. everything else is conjecture. >> i spoke to a pilot who said you do not put a 777 down anywhere without making a lot of noise. >> sure. they are huge. i want to address one other

navy aircraft, a longer range surveillance aircraft flew its first mission into the indian ocean earlier today. flew out about a thousand miles, didn't report seeing any debris field and came back. the "kidd" will use its helicopters. there will be more surveillance flights. they'll look at this from the surface of the ocean, from the air, anything they can use basically, though, they want to stay with ships and aircraft at this point because that's their best chance of using those very specialized radars to look out and see if they can find anything that looks like debris on the ocean surface. if they find it, then they will hone in on that area. but a number of nations participating in this now as the malaysians are beginning to share more information clearly about what they know, some of those pings, some of that data received by satellites now being used to calculate perhaps where the best opportunity to look may be. >> barbara, yesterday i spoke with a commander, commander william marks of the u.s. navy's seventh fleet in the pacific, and he told me that the search was expanding dra

the indian navy has joined that. the u.s. navy is there as well. beginning that search already before the prime minister spoke today. but he said he's instructed the foreign minister to give a full briefing to the countries that may be involved here and he said it goes all the way from the border of kazakhstan and turkmenistan in one corridor, all the way down to just open water in the southern indian ocean, from indonesia. so a huge area, to be covered. no doubt about that. and he wants to bring in some of these countries that might have radar records. he says they're being invited. they're going to be briefed, and they're going to try to find out if they can collect even more data that will yield some solid clues, particularly if it took that northern route. there would be countries that would have radar records that might be able to shed some light on what has happened to flight 370. so a lot coming out of that press conference, perhaps more than i expected. when we look at it on its face, it seems that the malaysian government is telling us the

one of them is a northern search area in the bay of bengal off india now being searched by the indian navy and the u.s. navy and a more southerly search pattern to the southeast, if you will, looking at whether the plane flew that way. that also being searched by the u.s. navy. a lot of nations doing everything they can to look for this. what they are looking for has not changed in one week. any sign of where the plane is. any sign of a debris field on the ocean. >> barbara, we're going to be talking in a few moments to the "u.s.s. kidd" talking about what it is they're looking for in that southerly area that barbara just described. michael, i'm very curious because you know barbara obviously pointing out. the radar stations, at least as we understand them, that found these dramatic changes in altitude were fairly far away from this object. why didn't malaysian officials respond in real time to something like this? i mean, it's in your air space and you see an unidentified flying object changing altitude that dramatically, you think you would have done something about it, right? >> yeah. i

indian navy ships frequently patrol in the area and conduct exercises there. the jet headed from kuala lumpur, malaysia to beijing when it disappeared saturday. u.s. officials say the mission to find the plane is getting more difficult as time passes. >> time is not on our side. as every hour goes by, the search area gets bigger and bigger. from a typical standpoint a person can survive in the water for at least 72 hours, due to sheer will power. >> authorities say the plane may have turned back from its last known position, possibling making it as far as 250 miles from its last known coordinates. the search affecting google. the company has had to issue a statement after several armchair detectives called the newspaper to say they found the jet. they used google maps to look at the area searchers are flying over. some images show an airplane. google points out, while images in maps are satellite images they are not real-time images and were taken weeks or months ago. for continuing coverage, to nbc bay.com, search missing plane. >>> s.w.a.t. teams headed to s

malaysia, the south china sea and the gulf of thailand to the west, the strait of malaka and the indian navy joining the search, pursuing the theory that the plane did double back. again, the images do deticket the wreckage, it would immediately refocus this investigation on what caused the crash, mechanical, human error or something else. u.s. 13we8 jens agencies said usz satellites did not pick up an explosion in the sky that night. stockholm shows it made a slight jaw to the right and then it dropped off the radar. the trance ponder stopped transmitting and the crew stopped responding to radio calls. u.s. military and intelligence agencies say they have no information on these chinese images. and the chinese have been very vocal of the criticism of the malaysians and how this search has been conducted so far. lawrence, back to you. >> tom costello, thanks. u.s. officials tell nbc news tonight they, quote, cannot attest to the voracity of the chinese imagery. and a spokesperson for the u.s. seventh fleet, which is helping in the search tells nbc news they now have no plans yet to change th

the indian navy and u.s. looking in the north, u.s. navy looking in the south. piers? >> barbara, tell me this. although they believe it is most probable that the plane has gone down into the indian ocean. they found no sign of any debris yet or sign of this plane. have they completely 100% ruled out the possibility that it could simply have landed somewhere? >> reporter: nothing is ruled out in this case 100 percent at this point. i mean, the world has been watching this mystery for a week now. but they are looking based on their calculations that the indian ocean is the place to go. these two areas are the place to look. there are land masses out there. but as so many aviation experts have said on our air, if you're going to land a 777 somewhere, you are going to need expertise and thousands of feet of runway. if it had crashed into land it's getting a little difficult to sort of firmly believe that there would not be some notice of it, some surveillance overhead that would not have noticed a crash. all this adds up plus mainly the technical data they believe it went

could be anywhere here in the indian ocean in the bay of ben gal off india and they brought in the indian navy to assist. you'll hear from commander marx, moving into the strait of malacca and p-3 orion plane moving in. why? because pings were picked up by a satellite. these pings do not indicate exactly the location, the heading, anything else about this particular plane. they just say, i'm here. i'm here, i'm here. it's kind of like if you had xm satellite radio in your car and never subscribed and the satellite knew you existed. that's kind of all that happened. so the question is, as that plane continued to travel and as it gave off a ping, only once an hour, can they use some sort of mathematical calculation involving the arc of the satellite coverage to get a feeling for where the plane might be. at the moment they are going on this particular area in the indian ocean. let's go to the other graphic, the original search zone. this is kuala lumpur. the plane took off from here. the last known contact point off the coast of south vietnam. we're now confident it did indeed turn around. the q

. >> reporter: still with so little to go on the indian navy suspended its search. other countries may be forced to do the same. >> how much more can they afford to put into this search before they have to give up because they won't have the resources to pay for it. >> i believe there was foul play involved. i don't think there was malfunction or elect call fire. we know the plane made a sharp left turn and flew into the straits. that's the last detected by military radar. the plane continued to fly over seven hours. it made contact at 8:00 a.m. local time with a commercial satellite operated by a british company. the latest information shows the plane could have traveled these two paths, as our report had a momenting inago. that's a possibility. it is possible the plane may have landed. this is a massive search area over 11 countries and remote stretches of ocean, millions of miles. okay. the transponder in the plane was deliberately switched off. this is the cockpit of my grand caravan. this is what i fly. this is the navigation system, the garmin 530. this is the

it encompasses, as well, the sea to the north of the indonesian island of sumatra and asked the indian navyhis effort, and if this plane did indeed have five hours or so of fuel onboard, it potentially could have flown off into the indian ocean. the indian ocean, as you know, is massive, and there is not much between the island of indonesia and the south of south africa and beyond. there's just not much in that massive body of water. so now we are at a point where we're just simply waiting for any sign whatsoever that any piece of wreckage has been found, but when you talk about a search zone the size of the united kingdom and you're looking for a needle in a hay stack, this is a massive effort and i must say, everybody at this point is in many conversations i've had on the phone, everybody is confused and struggling with the facts. >> what is the key at this point moving forward, tom? you've got this massive search, what can happen at this point that might be a game changer, is there some technology that might be available that hasn't been used, for example? >> there doesn't seem to be. i

significantly, the indian navy has been asked to join the search.o slowly joining the dots, cannot say -- i repeat -- that this is mh-370 for sure. but that is where a very key part of this investigation is going on at the moment. having said that, the malaysian authorities at the press conference today also said that we are splitting our search teams, half covering about 14,000 square miles, nautical miles on the west coast of malaysia and half covering the same area on the east coast. so they're not moving all their assets into where this plane was last seen, because they still don't know the identity of the plane. that's where we are at the moment with that. what you're talking about, the pilots, the pilots -- the chief pilot, 53-year-old, police did visit his home. he was an aviation nut. he has been described as he had a simulator and flying simulator in his house. police have been there. they say it's part of the routine investigation, leaving no stone unturned, chris. >> okay, good. so that's just about them checking, as opposed to them havin

and now the indian navy is joining this search, which tells you that it may possibly -- this plane may possibly be up in the waters to the north of the indonesian island of sumatra, perhaps even in the bay of bengal or in the indian ocean. you can see here that the defined search area is now 25,000 nautical square miles. 25,000. that is massive. if you then expand into the indian ocean, it's -- boy, the math would just be incalculable. >> greg, how reliable is the information that we are getting from the malaysian military, and what is the conceivable explanation for a plane turning that way? it could not turn. >> the big problem right now is the inconsistency of information. they've been filtering some of that information that they've put out. and right now, it's proven that it has not been very credible. and we don't know the basis for that. the fact that they've now expanded this search area indicates that they know more than what they're providing us. and it will probably come out piecemealed. as far as the turn is concerned, if you assume that the data is correct that the military

so now the indian, navy, and some u.s.planes are searching that northern box, if you will, in the bay of bengal. the military is taking a substantial role in looking for the plane as well as the uds and down further south as you see in that map, the u.s.s. kidd is also looking and scouring the sea surface and the air for any sign of debris field. wolf? >> barbara, why two directions, one north and one south? why did they come -- this intelligence analysis come with two different end points, if you will? >> we don't have perfect knowledge of that. we don't have -- let us be very clear -- all of the information that the government of the united states and government of malaysia has. but our understanding, from people we've spoken to, is this is based when they put all that data together. what we now know, for example, is that the satellite picked up some of those pings. they were able to analyze location information. the radar gave them location information. the pings went on for about five hours, which tells them how long t

all street journal says indian navy ships and aircraft are looking at new areas.cordance by malaysia. the same time malaysian officials are dismissing the journal report that the plane flew additional hours after its last contact. doesn't reports are inaccurate. another layer of confusion in an already long and unsuccessful six day investigation. just yesterday chinese government said that the satellite image have been the plan today the malaysian officials quoted the chinese embassy. the images were released by the sec >> : u.s. navy destroyer kid is already on its way to that new search area pentagon as not yet confirmed that report. airline >> : father in fairfield this thing to rugby is. after accused of biting off upon. >> : the infant also suffered a brain hemorrhage and skull fracture the baby is now unstable conditions police are still investigating how the infant received other injuries. please of fremont looking for men of the keys of silly ups package. please release the pictures of the theft did happen last thursday on alamo terrorist they believe the

the indian navy is set to put two ships that are on the andeman and nicobar islands into the search.ing to this press conference from malaysian officials, and we can tell you they've updated on that particular lead, john. >> yeah, they suggest at this point that that "wall street journal" report that these rolls royce engines were sending signals back for four hours. right now, malaysian officials say that report is not accurate, that coming from the man standing at the podium right now. now, we are looking into this independently, into this "wall street journal" report, quoting unnamed u.s. officials saying that this plane may have flown for four hours after its last known point of contact, based on rolls royce engine data. however, as we said, that malaysian official is saying that report is not accurate. so far, the information coming from the investigators here and malaysian officials, it has been inconsistent. >> yeah. >> so, i think there is a need to follow up here. >> and vietnamese officials have complained that the lack of information has thwarted their attempts to go out t

the search for malaysia and , the indian navy will search 13,000 square miles of the indian ocean, fariginal search area. will search south of burma and west of taiwan. john mcgraw from the transportation security administration, he joins us from annapolis, maryland. honored to have you with us. we have seen the news from malaysia where they are beginning to interview the pilot. do national security authorities review pilot safety as well as passenger security? they do, in coordination with the airlines. that has been a controversial piece here in the united states, in that pilots and crew are screened in a different way than passengers are. , some inat passengers the united states have been critical of that. but airlines do certify to tsa that all the background work has been done on these individuals, all the employees. and the whole point has been said -- why do you want to review us so closely when we are in control of the airplane and can take us down -- take it down? that statement has just been made. the point is, you need to consider and be scrutinized by every -- and scrutiniz

that is why we are seeing the indian navy in the sea trying to search. confusion is building a. the evidence isn't that there was a mechanical failure. that is why the u.s. is considering this ape jairus he investigation. piracyus he -- investigation. they went in completely the wrong direction. it was bound for beijing. some the countries are involved. you have india and south korea involved. they are starting to help with the search. there are dozens of countries .couring the sea and land we have to keep up front and forer that this is a debate us back at home. it is agonizing for the families of those 239 on board the flight. >> it is unthinkable. thank you for the latest on this still missing flight. mark zuckerberg the president obama to express frustration over the government spying. the nsa has been disguising itself as facebook to get access to computers. that is information leaked by edward snowden. the nsa says the reports are inaccurate. >> the world has the second richest person. that is warren buffett. $63shire hathaway is worth billion. tha

radar data indicates the plan have taken one of to press north to the end of in islands or the indian navy air and sea search were soft pass the indonesian islands of sumatra u.s. navy deployed added. >> : with no evidence of a crash suspicions of foul play are growing. >> : british satellite company has not confirmed its receive signals from the missing plane although it did not confirm a report that the plane had been following established arabs as it headed west. >> : stay with us as we follow the story on line. >> : at our kron4-dot-com. stay tune to our morning will have aviation experts on the morning news. and you weigh in on the it does. the 73 >> : at 815. >> : big shot after that enormous fire of cleaning up few >> : area enclosed. it still does in hot spots cruise in getting rid of debris. >> : once they open up the debris piles where evelyn of people seem to sit plater pipe. until the entire debris pile was pulled off. >> : still under construction and it was lost in the final set fire alarm fire at fortunately no one was seriously hurt. gentoo but if your are caused a welding

the indian navy is pulling back, meanwhile, suspended its search. >> approximately three nautical milesoving starboard. >> reporter: the uss kidd is searching. >> just to give you some context as to the size of that area, if you superimposed a picture of the united states in this area between india and malaysia, it almost would be like looking for one person somewhere between new york and california. >> reporter: veteran investigators now say it's possible the plane and its passengers may never be found. >> it may be that somewhere down the road, a month from now, a year from now debris watches up on the beach someplace that would identify the airplane but we will never be able to track it back to find the actual debris site if it's in deep ocean. >> let's start with bob hager. nobody does reporting on this better. i want to start with the pilot and the flight simulator in his home. is that what pilots do in their spare time? >> i don't know if it's schedule-scale. i don't know. >> why did they remove? >> reporter: they want to see what he has been playing with. has he made any try runs

indian ocean. the commander of the u.s. navy'sold me just a short while ago an american warship just turned into the entrance of the indian ocean to search the area. he said the u.s. has moved at the request of the malaysian government. our correspondents are working their source. our cnn effort is using the global reach to cover this story like no one else can. let's go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr first. she's got new information, barbara? >> wolf, a senior u.s. official told me that the malaysian government has now said to them, to the u.s., it does have several pings from what they do believe is this airliner. they're not clear about how much data is actually involved, but essentially electronic pings that have led them to calculate that a plane like this one with engines like this plane had flew several hours out into the indian ocean. they come to this conclusion, we are told, based on the pings being transmitted to satellites. the satellites calculating some information from those pings as well as the reasona

the indian navy has antisubmarine ships that could also go out and be looking for that. the other thing that we have are space-based systems and the plane last reported it, i believe 122 -- 1:2in the morning local and then flew west. so the sun was chasing it. sunrise at 35,000 feet is lot earlier than on the surface. so there are lots of different sensors probably being culled to look back and see what any, what was seen and also, there is a report in "the wall street journal" that talks about investigators disclosing that those data pings that were coming out during those four to five hours could lead to plotting the point at which the last report was given and that would narrow down the search tremendously. jenna: we'll be speaking to the "wall street journal" reporter who broke that news a little later on in the program, find out what else he has learned today. captain nash, jeff lanza, thank you so much. >> pleasure. >> another another frightening airline incident, this one in philadelphia. over 10050 passengers forced from a us airways jetliner last night -- 150, u

direction than it was intended to go. >> just this morning, we confirmed what navy officials said, they are sending vessels into the indian ocean, and what can you tell us about that? >> the navy has certainty a naval destroyerer into the area, and they had a p3 ryan over the area today. and that jet picked up knock, and another plane, a p8 is coming in tomorrow to help with the search. it's greatly picking up west of the malaysian peninsula, because based on the satellite hits and based on military, that's where the plane ended up going. >> lisa stark in washington d.c., thank you very much. and as the search for that missing plane continues, the toll that it's taking on the families that are waiting grows even worse. some are losing patience while waiting in cola lumpur. >> the lack of information is distracting. seven days, and no idea where the miss flight is heading. 6. >> we have been stuck here for too long. every day is a torture. i don't know how many days we'll have to wait. i just the accurate information as soon as possible. >> in kuala lumpur, teams have been at a hotel. and volunteers have been assigned to h

also on wednesday, nearly a thousand personnel from the indian navy joined the search effort. the u.s. ves sl al schls. says the search. the u.s. believes that two communications systems on board the plane were turned off separately. hear's ou malaysian's defense minister described the search. >> as new information focused on the search, but this is not a normal investigation. >> and friday, as we mentioned, it was reported that the plane had experienced sharp changes in altitude and may have changed course more than once. which means that the u.s.s. kidd is one of 43 ships and 58 aircraft from 14 different countries surveying a proverbial hay stack in the north and the vast indian ocean in the south where the average depth can reach two miles all looking for a needle a little more than 200 feet long. i want to turn to the public affairs officer of the fleet. he's on board the uss blue ridge. it is the command ship for the uss kid. he joins us on the phone. thank you for taking your time. does the u.s. navy agree with what the malaysian prime minister said this morning that th

. >> in your experience as a member of the indian merchant navy, you sailed through these waters. you know just how remote they are and how inhospitable they are, just the weather and so on. as you would sale through there, did you see a lot of debris? did you see garbage and other things floating through the water that would make this search more difficult? >> yes. it's one of the concentrated patches for garbage, also. all of the garbage collects together and accumulating together and sticks together and sometimes on the ship i have noted it giving an echo as if it were a small island, you know. >> i wonder if you could talk more about your sister. she was traveling, on her way to a conference in mongolia leaving behind a daughter in college, a husband, of course, you, the rest of the family. tell me, what are your thoughts about her today as this news comes through? >> yeah. it's very sad. it's definitely very sad. it's -- yep. it's very sad. everybody's -- i mean, has been waiting anxiously 16 days and there have been various stories and, you know, lots of things coming up and

the indian navy still looking in the north.'m sure the malaysians have assets searching or their coast along with the thais and the burmese. it's a matter of time until we can deliver those areas and really hone in as many assets as possible in this potential crash site. >> one other piece of information that we have is that there's been a significant number of lithium eion batterie as part of the cargo of this plane. they can be flammable. does that raise any red flags for you as an investigator? >> it's certainly something they'll look at. there are lithium batteries on every flight around the world. >> so this is common? >> it's very, very common. these were shipped, the malaysians say they were shipped in accordance with the proper regulations and packaging. i think it's a low likelihood. for a major fire to be onboard and it to fly six hours is statistically unlikely when you look at the history of in-flight fire. this will be an extreme outlier. there's no evidence to support it. >> have we ever been so captured and gripp

indian ocean. so, let's go to the search. earlier today a u.s. navy a surveillance aircraft conducted its first sweep about 1,000 miles out into the indian ocean east of the malay peninsula in this new area that they are searching and it reported that they found nothing. the "uss kidd" now at the northern end of the strait at the entrance to the indian ocean, its helicopters will also conduct sweeps in this area. this is now the area focus for the united states assisting the malaysians that indian navy also getting involved on their side further to the west. all of this taking place to the west of the malay peninsula. they also are looking. u.s. officials are saying that they don't know. what they do know is that these pings from the aircraft were then analyzed and it matched the profile and the engine type of the plane that was flying and there was no correlating transponder information. of course, they believe the transponder was off at that point. that was the puzzle. the clues that they have put together that lead them to the conclusion that they

have taken a look and said it appears that the plane may have gone out west towards the indian ocean. the u.s. navy moving a droir in the area -- destroyer into the area. the uss kidd has moved to that area. a big mystery, and more questions than answers. >> lisa stark in washington. >> over in philadelphia, a u.s. airways ship was forced to land after a plane blew a tyre through takeoff. cellphone video after a plane returned with 149 passengers on board. the landing gear collapsed and it skidded on to the runway. the faa is now investigating the incident. >> the justice department wants to reduce prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. attorney-general eric holter old told a u.s. sentencing commission that shorter sentences would be fair and only apply to some crimes. >> there are people, we must understand, who have to be prosecuted and deserve to go to gaol. there are ways in which we can maintained public safety and reduce the prison population, reduce the number of people we are sentencing. >> the commission will vote on a proposal next month. if approved sentences will be shortened b

the original search area in the gulf of thailand, over to here, and even far out into the indian ocean. the u.s. navy is sending one of its destroyers up here today. what still remains very unclear is why. >> a malaysia airlines pilot for 35 years says there is no way they are now starting to search the indian ocean just on a hunch. >> i have a feeling. saying to america, send a ship there -- do you have any ships around the area? please, send it there. it is our property. we can do what we want. but there must be some strong conviction. something has happened. an event has taken place. >> prayers for the missing today. bbc news. >> for more on the search for the missing plane, i spoke with a former inspector with the federal aviation administration. know that a satellite company recorded electronic signals from the plane after it disappeared. even though the transponder had been turned off. what does that suggest to you? >> the pain they are talking about -- one of the parts of the system -- theding data that is in that is not being sent. it is just hanging. ringing,e a cell phone but no one is answ

meanwhile the focus of the search has narrowed to the southern portion of the indian ocean. the us navy.. along with aussie & new zealand airforces.. are examining an area several hundred miles off the west coast of australia. the faa has officially declared the boeing 787 dreamliner - safe! remember when the fleet was grounded for 3 months last year because of problems with its batteries overheating?boeing did a complete redesign of the battery, the charger and built a system to contain any fire that might occur.the faa declared the plan soundly designed and safe to fly.the cause of the battery problems is still unknown. the national transportation safety board is still looking into that. back on the ground,toyota could be setting an example for general motors. toyota will pay 1.2 billion dollars in a settlement with the justice department. the auto maker admits to misleading the public regarding its vehicles with sudden acceleration issues. "we can say for certain toyota intentionally misled the public, concealed information and misled the public about the safety issues behind these r

search efforts have been grounded for hours because of bad weather in the southern indian ocean. a u.s. navythe seventh fleet is sending a second patrol aircraft to aid in the search effort. new satellite images from thailand and japan, they're raising hopes that the plane debris may be found soon. hundreds of objects have been detected by various satellites in the area. nothing has been found yet. once again, so far flights were supposed to take off within the past hour, but the u.s. navy commander says no flights have yet taken off. we're standing by, stay with cnn for complete information on all the latest developments. that's it for me, thanks very much for watching. our coverage continues. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> next breaking news. search planes taking off in search of missing flight 370. new satellite images show more than 300 objects floating in the indian ocean. new information about the captain and his son speaks out for the first time. >>> plus, more breaking news. tens of thousands of russian troops on high alert tonight on the border with ukraine. those num

that navy plane over the indian ocean. now getting out another flight. is a cyclone about to disrupt the search.

navy ships now steam toward the indian ocean.ra america will be following the civil war in syria as it now enters its third year tomorrow. here now a look at the devastation and destruction stemming from that ongoing conflict. extensive coverage on that war's milestone begins tomorrow morning and there's more news straight ahead in this case in just two minutes. bloc hello there, welcome to the news hour. these are the main stories this hour. >> obviously we have a lot to talk about -- >> a final chance for u.s. secretary of state meets his russian counterpart for last-stitch chance to resolve theri

i have every confidence that our navy, australian navy, indian navys, the malaysians will continue untilircraft if it truly is in the water. >> the sense of urgency has to match the realities of what they're dealing with and practicalities. sometimes you have to wait and that's often the hardest part especially for the families. we'll go to the reporting. we were asking questions about the cargo. where's the cargo manifest. is there a chance that they could have been carrying something that was hazmat, improperly stored? maybe that's the reason for the decompression. we're told they have the cargo manifest. they have not released it. they say there were batteries on board, lithium batteries. that is relevant to people because they can be unstable. they can not explode but they can ignite if improperly stored. they say everything was done by the book. how significant a factor of reporting is this? >> you know, i don't think it's that significant because every accident we've had in history related to cargo creates a massive structural failure as well that's accompanied it. if you look at t