our aviation correspondent rene marsh has the very latest. >> wolf, millions of dollars have been dolled out to these families. it is giving them the financial footing that they need to begin to move forward, but for some of these families, accepting this money means accepting the harsh reality their loved ones are no longer alive. even if no sign of the plane or proof of the passengers' fate, malaysian life insurance companies are starting to pay out. >> i think the presumption of death under these circumstances is appropriate and it allows some of these families to at least financially move forward. >> reporter: citing extraordinary circumstances, the company shelled out $4 million u.s. dollars to families. this is from personal life insurance policies, separate from airline compensation. >> the airline really should be sprinkling out and paying up the maximum amount. >> reporter: but payouts aren't enough. in a new open letter, families demanded the raw data that led search teams to the south indian ocean and input on what happens next. australia, china, and malaysia are currently rea

details from renee marsh. >> reporter: it was the most promising lead and now we know it is false.ormation the u.s. navy has concluded these four underwater signals were not from the missing plane's black boxes. >> from the u.s. navy standpoint, these sounds were most likely not from the black boxes. >> yes, i would have to say at this point based on all of the imagery data we have collected and looked at, if that black box were nearby we would have detected it. >> reporter: when detected, it boosted confidence that the plane would be found. >> the four sounds taken together make up the most promising lead. >> but now the navy says the sounds could have been from the search ship itself or other electronics. >> we may have very well been at the wrong place, but again at the end of 30 days there was nowhere else to search for. >> after searching the ocean floor, the bluefin 21's mission is over. there will be new private companies taking over. meanwhile, a new potential lead. cnn has learned a sound that could have been the plane crashing was detected by underwater microphones. >> ou

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renee marsh begins our coverage. >> reporter: almost two months after flight 370 vanished, malaysian authorities finally released an initial report to the public. the five-page document doesn't explain why the plane went missing but does make clear that for hours after the plane went missing there was confusion and misinformation. moments after the flight's now famous final communication. >> malaysian 370 contact -- >> good night. >> good night. 370. >> reporter: the plane's transponder goes off causing it to disappear from radar at 1:21 a.m. local time. but the report shows it was 17 minutes before air traffic controllers in vietnam asked their counterparts in malaysia what happened to the plane. during that time, the plane unexpectedly turned left eventually recrossing the peninsula. radar tracked it but did nothing. the report shows during this time malaysia airlines may have added to the confusion sending two messages to air traffic control. both of which turned out to be false. the first at 2:03 a.m. claiming the plane was in cambodian air space, it was not. the second message a

>> rene marsh, thank you for that. others in the navy says it's too soon to know for sure just what the underwater sounds were. a spokesman telling cnn the comments were speculative and premature, "we continue to work with our partners to more thoroughly understand the data acquired by the towed pinger locator." austral australia, who is leading the search, continues to analyze the recordings, but officials say the final resting place of that jet is not where they were looking. >> obviously, this is important to the families, so important to them. those on board flight 370, the families on board are looking at these new developments. and this is tough for them to hear. they've been looking to find out the fate of their loved ones so long now. sarah bajc's partner, philip wood, was the only american adult on flight 370. she told us last hour here on "early start" she sees this as a hopeful sign that perhaps her partner is still alive. she didn't have anything good to say about the search so far. listen. >> the tail is w

rene marsh is here. seems to be a consensus about whether those pings came from flight 370. >> right. those pings, so to speak, are in question. of course, the headline today is flight 370 isn't where they thought it was. also tonight, we have more from our exclusive interview from a navy official who told us that the pings were not from the plane's black boxes. the navy quickly tried to walk back those comments calling it premature and speculative. premature perhaps. but this morning they called it accurate. it's now official, australia telling the world that flight 370 is not in the area where pings were detected. >> no signs of aircraft debris have been found. the area can now be discounted as the final resting place for flight 370. >> reporter: that means it's back to focusing on a larger area, hundreds of miles elsewhere along the inmarsat achl arc. this, one day after michael dean, deputy director of the ocean engineering, said in an exclusive interview, the pings were likely not from flight 370's

our aviation correspondent rene marsh is here. she's got news on the breaking story. rene?t. potentially disastrous and potentially deadly if the drone made contact with the passenger plane, and the two came dangerously close to colliding midair, but this isn't a first. there have been other drone disasters in the air. a near nightmare in the sky. a passenger plane near lly crass into a camouflage drone flying at 2,300 feet well above the typical altitude for a private drone. the incident in the tallahassee skies involved a us airways express jet flying nearby the airport. the first details of the march scare previously not revealed until an faa official spoke about it thursday in san francisco. >> the airplane pilot said that the uas was so close to his jet that he was sure he had collided with it. thankfully, inspection of the airliner after landing found no damage. >> reporter: authorities do not know who flew the drone but say it could have brought down the plane. the safety of our passengers and crews are top priority. us airways' parent company tells cnn tonight in a

cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh is here and how close were they in colliding?cording to an official that was speaking at a conference, the information that he shared so far is simply that this passenger plane, a u.s. airways passenger plane was flying and came into close contact with this drone and some 23,000 feet in the air. according to this faa official at the conference, the pilot thought that the drone actually hit this plane. that's how close they came to one another. once they got on the ground, they were able to inspect the plane. they were able to determine the drone did not make contact with this plane. scary. we're talking about 20, 30,000 feet. this is an example of just a recreational drone that you have here. you have all sorts of drones and obviously this one made it up 23,000 feet and was not one of those recreational drones. it really highlights the reason why the faa has been working for so long to essentially come out with a blueprint for how to safely integrate these drones into the air space because they are predicting over the next five y

>> rene marsh reporting. thank you very much. >>> let's bring in david soucie, cnn safety analyst and author of "why planes crash" and mary schiavo, former inspector general for the department of transportation. welcome to you both. i'm listening to the air traffic control chatter and it's a little freaky. how close was this incident to disaster? >> this was very close to disaster. more importantly, this is a violation of federal air regulations. this is what's called an operational error. that means the air traffic controller made a mistake. they're supposed to be three miles apart. depending upon the phase of the flight, 2,000 feet or more. so this was very, very close. >> david, i know newark airport changed its rules regarding runway use for takeoffs and landings. does every airport need to do this? >> there's a lot of things that had to do with newark airport, including the closure of one of the airports themselves. when you look at how to change that and where it goes, it changes the operational paramet

rene marsh just broke this news. rene, what do you know? >> well, brianna, a near midair collision, that's the word from the ntsb at newark airport. it was a united 747 from san francisco to new jersey with 160 passengers onboard. it was coming in for a landing at newark when it came within a half a football field of a united express jet, which was preparing to take off from a perpendicular runway. now both planes were following the directions of newark airport's controllers. i want you to take a listen to the conversation between one of the pilots and the controllers just seconds after this close call. listen. >> traffic off to your right. >> yeah, nose is down. yeah, he was real close. >> all right. well, you heard it right there, he was real close. so quite a close call there. preliminary ntsb report says the two planes, again, were about 50 yards laterally, 135 yards vertically, dangerously close. of course, this happened just last month on the 24th of april. if you remember, that's just the day before another near collision we told you

the most recent mers patient in orlando. >> renee marsh, thank you so much. the cdc is still learning about the mers virus. first reported in saudi arabia in 2012. this graph shows the number of worldwide cases. there was a sudden explosion in cases last month. these numbers with not complete for april or this month. let's bring in the head of mers response activities for the cdc. dr. david swerdlow. the patient in the florida case traveled from saudi arabia on may 1st. the case was not reported until may 11th. everybody he came in contact with is still in the potential incubation period, correct? >> that's right. we think it's about five days. but it's up to about 14 days. we're watching people for a full 14 days. >> are you concerned we could see an explosion of cases in the u.s. over the incubation period? or is this a question of caution and health officials being overly cautious. just because we don't want to take chances. >> i think you said it perfectly. we don't want to take chances with the virus. we don't know how it's transmitted exactly. we're not

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reporter: but some families are not sure just yet. >> there is no direct evidence. >> reporter: rene marshcnn, washington. >>> joining me now is sara bajc whose partner philip wood was on the plane. does the release of this data raise any questions for you, give you any confidence about where philip might be, that investigators are looking in the right place? >> the preliminary feedback that i have received from a few of the individuals looking at the information is that there is some interesting discrepancies specifically around the first frequencies. that might be something that they are going to look into a little bit more. >> the bluefin-21, the underwater drone that's been searching the floor of the ocean is wrapping up its phase of the search. the next phase won't start for a few months. are you surprised that after all of this time there still hasn't been one concrete trace of this plane? >> it's one of the things that leads us to be suspicious about why they have chosen this particular place. as a family group, and i as a concerned citizen and a frequent passenger of international

rene marsh, thank you so much.t least four close calls in the last few weeks, at least that we know about. joining me now was bob richards. an air traffic controller in chicago at o'hare airport for 20 years. "secrets from the tower" is your new book. this appears to be operator error from the air traffic controller who was in training. he had someone with him. how does that work if a trainee makes a mistake? >> it's still on the onus of the trainer to correct it and it's still his responsibility ultimately. the trainee is not going to suffer discipline consequences. in that sense, if you're looking at that, that is what is going to happen. in this situation, there is always going to be human involvement and when the human involvement occurs, there's always going to be a chance of mistake. the beautiful thing about it all, though, is we have so many back-up plans to this. we have other pilots, other systems and like in chicago o'hare, for instance, we have a local monitor position where someone actually plugs in an

rene marsh, cnn, washington. >>> the u.s. navy later pulled back from those comments by deputy director of ocean engineering, michael dane, who says the pings were likely a false lead. a navy statement reads mr. dane's comments were speculative and premature as we continue to torque with our partners to more thoroughly understand the data acquired from the towed pinger locator. as a result we would refer to the australians to make additional information known at the appropriate time. today's announcement outlined the next steps. the first is a full mapping of the ocean floor in an expanded search zone. that survey is being conducted by chinese and malaysian ships and could take three months to complete. the next step will be a new underwater sweep with new capabilities beginning in august and that could take 12 months and cost at least $60 million. australia will take bids from private firms to conduct that sweep. >>> u.s. president barack obama says his policy is might doing right, a strong military working in tandem with di

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but now, as rene marsh tells us, it seems those noises were not from the plane. >> reporter: christine and john, it was the most promising lead, and now we know it is false. the u.s. navy tells cnn it has concluded the underwater signals were not from the missing plane's black boxes. if they were, the navy says the underwater drone bluefin-21 would have detected them. >> i'd have to say at this point, based on all of the imagery data that we've collected and looked at, if that black box were nearby, we would have picked it up. >> reporter: we're now told the pings could have been from the search ship itself or other electronics, this as bluefin-21 completed its 28th and final mission on wednesday. the search will resume in august when private companies take over. meanti meantime, we're learning of a potential new lead. cnn has learned underwater microphones detected a sound that could have been the plane crashing. the united nations nuclear test ban organization has a network of 11 hydrophone stations intended to detect nuclear tests. well, scientists are now carefully analyzing data t

renee marsh, cnn, washington. >>> joining us now, cnn safety analyst david souci, the author of "whyh" and investigator for safe skies. david, this near miss in houston, the planes came within nearly a mile of each other, 400 feet vertically, if you will. help us put it in perspective, how close was this incident from disaster? >> wolf, if you look at the fact they were 7.8 miles from each other and flying at 200 miles an hour to make the math easier, we're talking only ten seconds the amount of time it took for him to say stop your turn, stop your turn, around the whole thing he said was around ten seconds. yes, it was very close and should not be minimized. >> it appears it was due to an error by the faa controller who was in training. so does that concern you? >> well, it absolutely does, except for one thing, wolf, i've been in the situation doing observation on them in the towers and when you do that, you have somebody on the job training you have somebody watching the screen, exactly a mirror image and you have a third person watching the both of them. so i would suspect what h

all involving passenger planes. >> cnn's rene marsh reporting for us. there were 4,400 close calls in the air in 2012. if you do the math, that's more than a dozen every day. according to the faa's latest statist statistics. 41 of those were considered high risk. near misses and improving airline safety in general is something the international civil aviation organization is dealing with all the time. the mystery surrounding the disappearance of malaysia air flight 370 led to a very big meeting in montreal of the icao and from the meeting came some significant developments that are related to searching for and finding lost airplanes. big surprise, right. perhaps most significant in the findings, according to cnn safety analyst david soucie, is a problem that plagued air traffic controllers. a kind of three-strike system. that punished those controllers for allowing planes to get too close. those strikes were called deals. if you get three deals, you're out. that system is no longer in place. and david soucie says that's actually not a bad thing because

rene marsh just broke the news. this is an incredible story. we're going to be joined by someone on the plane which is actually the only reason we seem to know this happen about this sudden dive and this near collision. what happened? >> what we now know based on information from the ntsb as you just stated there, the two planes were assigned to these altitudes. so they didn't move this on their own. they were told by air traffic control to essentially climb to the altitudes that they were at. sources are telling me that this is an indication that this was a messup by air traffic controllers, essentially telling the planes where to go and they did, and essentially, they were on this course here where they could have potentially collided midair. and of course, that would have been a very bad situation. we're talking about two planes traveling perhaps at around roughly 500 miles per hour. we do know that they were about eight miles apart. at this rate, they could have been on top of each other within seconds, erin. just to reset what happened her

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rene marsh, let me go to you in washington, d.c. what do we know at this point?we can tell you we've been watching the cancellations and delays, brooke. an hour ago, when we spoke, we see the number of cancellation and delays just increase. right now, close to 500 cancellations and delays for flights departing chicago o'hare, as well as arrivals as well, too. we're seeing those numbers continue to climb as this ground stop is still in place. here's what we know. we know an faa air traffic control center that handles intermediate air traffic, essentially there was smoke in that building. we don't know what caused the smoke. but we know everyone had to be evacuated. once that happened, they had to transfer the duties to a different air traffic control tower to take over the duties there. while that transfer was happening, they've put in place this ground stop. flights lined up on the tarmac there and not going anywhere. we're still trying to get some information on when this ground stop will be lifted, and what caused that smoke in air traffic control. but until th

cnn's rene marsh is tracking it all. scary stuff. >> reporter: absolutely, carol.an tell you at the closest point the two passenger planes about a half football field apart laterally and 135 yards apart vertically, and now the ntsb and the faa are investigating who's to blame for this near collision? close calls come down to either pilot or controller error. >> yeah, he was real close, sir. >> reporter: audio revealing tense moments between the pilot and air traffic controllers when two commercial airliners nearly collide mid-air over newark airport last month. >> traffic to your right. >> the controllers directing a united airlines boeing 737 to land just seconds before a smaller express jet was cleared tore takeoff on an intersecting runway. the larger jet nearly on top of the plane when controllers tell it to circle the airport. >> yeah, yeah. put the nose down. he's real close. >> reporter: at its closest point, the aircraft, only 50 yards away from each other. only about half a football field. >> that express jet should have been held in essentially the ready

aviation correspondent renee marsh is following all the latest developments. what do we know about this one, renee? >> reporter: we're still getting the details but the faa telling us here at kr cnn these two planes came with within a mile of each other and they were about 400 feet apart vertically. if you were a passenger on this plane, you do not want to be in that situation. we are hearing about another situation of two passenger planes getting too close for comfort. >> 601 turn right turn. >> reporter: two more passenger planes get too close in the sky. on may 9, united flight 601 and united 437 took off from bush intercontinental air 30 poporta. shortly after takeoff flight 601 is told to turn right putting it in the path of the other plane. moments later the controller seems to realize the mistake. >> 601, stop the turn right there, sir the. stop your turn. stop your climb and stop your turn. >> reporter: the two planes came within nearly a mile of each other. the roughly 300 passengers on both flights may not have been aware of the close call, but the pi

renee mar marsh, cnn, washingt >> thank you so much.rings up more questions about how exactly the plane was lost, the missions to find the plane continues. the bluefin-21 which uses under water sonar has up until now focused on that area surrounding the location of a detected ping, possibly from the black box. but with no sign of the plane, the under water search must move on to nearby areas where they hope to find evidence. australia's former aviation minister and ambassador to the u.s., ken beasley, joins me now to discuss. mr. ambassador, always good to see you. thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> how will they select new areas to focus on now that the detected pings led to nothing. >> they have identified a box, using australian terms, which is roughly -- they will bring in extra equipment that's in the process of being contracted. in the meantime, they are continuing when weather permits, with the bluefin search. when the air france plane went down, people basically knew where it was. searched for it for about two years a

let's bring in our aviation correspondent rene marsh. what are you learning? >> last week we talked about the flights delayed, diverted, some canceled at lax, third busiest airport saw more than 100 delays. according to u.s. officials, faa's computers, they were overwhelmed by the flight data of this u.s. spy plane. so the question that comes, how did a spy plane, you know, essentially, its flight plan create a problem with the computer system? well, two things happened. number one, this spy plane had to input a lot. numerous way points. way points are different points it's going to hit throughout its flight path. it inputted many of them. that coupled with an outage for the communications and radar system, those two things colliding together, it created a mess for people who were trying to get from point "a" from point "b" so we saw the problems because without those computer systems essentially, they're not able to safely space out the aircraft that are in the air. out of abundance of caution, they made sure all of these flights were grounded or not taking o

. >> let's go to cnn's rene marsh covering the story from washington. good morning, rene. >> good morning, don. overnight we got a statement from the australians in charge of this search. they say on the record that they are now able to discount the area where bluefin was searching as the final resting place for flight 370. also, a u.s. navy official is on the record with cnn saying those promising underwater sounds were likely not from the plane's black boxes. not only were the black boxes not in the current search area. again, the consensus is neither is the plane. >> it was the most promising lead. now we know it's false. new information the u.s. navy has concluded these four underwater signals were not from the missing plane's black boxes. >> from the u.s. navy's standpoint, these sounds were most likely not from the black boxes. >> yes. i'd have to say at this point, based on all of the imagery data we've collected and looked at, if that black box were nearby, we would have picked it up. >> when detected in april, the pings boosted confidence the pl

i will stop right there and bring in cnn aviation correspondent richard quest in london and rene marsh in d.c., our correspondent on this story. rene, i will begin with you. this is so distressing. what happened? >> it is distressing. i have to say when we learned this information yesterday the one word that came out of my mouth was, wow. we were hearing -- keep in mind, this was the last day of bluefin's mission. it had done 28 missions. we now learned that this area in which four underwater signals were detected, a u.s. navy official on the record say it was most likely not from the black boxes after all. not only were the black boxes in the area you're looking at highlighted on your screen, neither is the plane. the plane is not there in that section of the indiana ocean. we also got confirmation about the plane not being there from the australians because that came out in a statement because they say they have discounted this area where these four underwater signals have reflected the resting place of flight 370. >> the hope has been diminishing slightly with every single day. rene

rene marsh is out front. als now having doubts about the ping data, and specifically those two sets of pings that were originally observed on april 8th? >> that's right. so, erin, a u.s. navy source revealed to us today that reanalysis of some critical data is under way right here in the united states. the source says a couple of agencies, u.s. agencies, as well as consultants, they are now taking a fresh look at the pinger data. crews, as you know, they've centered their search around those four pings believed to be from flight 370's black boxes. cnn has now learned in three to four weeks, these u.s. agencies and consultants are now expected to say whether they believe those sounds were from the black boxes or something else. why do they have doubts? because of the frequency, as well as the length of time at which they were detected. also, erin, "the wall street journal" are reporting about doubt coming from, of all places, the people searching for the missing plane. according to "the wall street journal," an

rene marsh, cnn, washington. >>> well, this is a sad one.hoping for a song for happiness has landed them in a tehran jail. >> they're suspected of making a homemade version of the song "happy" by pharrell williams and posting it online. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> so this may seem like a lot of fun to most of us, right? tehran's police chief called it, quote, a vulgar clip which hurt public chastity. pharrell williams posted a message on his facebook page saying it is beyond sad that these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness. >>> just a few days before the arrest the president gave a speech saying iran should embrace the internet age. >> hopefully the president will make sure that they revisit what happened to those young people. >> yes. stupid. >> unacceptable. >> it's just stupid. >>> okay. you're watching cnn. still to come here -- >> they actually have an enormous responsibility to address the climate change challenge because of simply the scale of their emissions coming out of the supply chain. >> a new report breaks down how our food supply

our aviation correspondent rene marsh is here. >> this a big blow to the search here. stalled for 4 to 5 days, possibly longer, the only underwater vehicle that is searching for flight 370, we now know it is out of commission. and this will not be a quick fix. we know there are problems with the communications link, which that's a big issue, because the crews will not be able to give it basic instructions when it's under water. we also know there's a problem with the transponder on board the ocean shield. that's an issue as well because that transponder essentially tracks bluefin when it's under water. we did tell you yesterday that bluefin crashed up against ocean shield as they were pulling it out of the water so these damages are a result of that incident. again, talk about a big blow to the search. now, it didn't search yesterday. we're talking about another 4 to 5 days, possibly longer, where no searching is going on under water for flight 370. >> been 69 days. they found absolutely no wreckage. they think they may have heard a ping. they're no longer 1100% sure.

rene marsh is live at washington's reagan national airport. renee, what more can you tell us about this latest near collision? >> well, we can tell you, as you mentioned, brianna, the faa is trying to get to the bottom of this because the bottom line is this is not supposed to happen. but it did happen. and we now know that it was an air traffic controller who put this plane on the wrong path. an air traffic controller in training directs a united jet to turn, putting it on a possible collision course with another plane departing bush intercontinental airport. seconds later according to the faa the controller realize his mistake. >> stop your turn and stop your climb. >> the two flights, each traveling more than 600 miles per hour less than a mile apart, sending off collision warning systems. listen to stunned pilots seconds later. >> i have no idea what was going on up there in the tower. but it was pretty gnarly looking. >> he was supposed to give us a left turn. >> reporter: another potentially dangerous moment in the sky where two planes ne

rene marsh, live in washington. it's 17,000 feet this happened. so everybody should have had their seatbelts on. >> right. and that audio you played just a little while ago, carol, that was as they were making that emergency landing, because of all of this. i can tell you, it was a heart-pounding seconds for the 265 people on board us airways flight 735. 17,000 feet in the air, right above delaware, when all of a sudden a violate mid-air shakeup. listen to the passengers. >> shoes were flying, cell phones flying, people screaming. and it was very, very, very scary. >> reporter: a frightening scene on a us airways flight as passengers were jolted around, injuring six people, sending five, including two flight attendants, to the hospital. >> i thought we were going down. really did. >> reporter: the orlando-bound flight hit severe turbulence shortly after taking off from philadelphia international airport. passengers say the drop in altitude came out of nowhere. >> we were going, and then all of a sudden there was just like a drop like you're going

and cnn's renee marsh is live in washington with more. tell us about this audio. let us hear it. >> reporter: well, carol, we're 55 days in, and we now have new clean versions of the air traffic control tapes which were first played for the families on monday. but the tapes were officially released to everyone today. so you're about to hear the final communication between controllers and flight 370. now, when you hear them say "flight level 350," they're referring to an altitude of 35,000 feet. which was their assigned altitude. so let's take a listen. >> flight 370, we are ready request flight level three five zero. >> mas 370 is cleared to beijing via pibos a departure. >> beijing pibos. a 6,000 feet squawk. >> this is the clearest that we've had of this audio so far. let's take advantage of that and let's just play now what has become very well known, those final words again for you, the two final words, "good night malaysian 370." we're going to play that for you two more times. keep in mind, investigators are interested in two things

it's a stunning setback, and rene marsh broke the news. and rene, wow is really all i can say right now. >> i pretty much said the same thing today, erin. i said wow when we learned this information, because it all boils down to this. for seven and a half weeks, we've been searching for something that simply was not there. the u.s. navy is on camera and talking to cnn tonight. we are told the black boxes were not in the search zone, and most likely neither is the plane. it was the most promising lead, and now we know it's false. new information the u.s. navy has concluded these four underwater signals were not from the missing plane's black boxes. >> from the u.s. navy's standpoint, these sounds were most likely not from the black boxes. >> yes, i'd have to say at this point, based on all of the imagery data we've collected and looked at. if that black box were nearby, we would have picked it up. >> reporter: when detected in april, the pings boosted confidence the plane would be found. >> the full signals previously acquired taken together

aviation correspondent renee marsh is following all the latest developments. about this one, renee? >> reporter: we're still getting the details but the faa telling us here at kr cnn these two planes came with within a mile of each other and they were about 400 feet apart vertically. if you were a passenger on this plane, you do not want to be in that situation. we are hearing about another situation of two passenger planes getting too close for comfort. >> 601 turn right turn. >> reporter: two more passenger planes get too close in the sky. on may 9, united flight 601 and united 437 took off from bush intercontinental air 30 poporta. shortly after takeoff flight 601 is told to turn right putting it

here's cnn's aviation correspondent rene marsh. >> reporter: bluefin-21 smashes into the ocean shieldn the search. the under water vehicle's propeller torn, tail ripped off an electronics day damaged after the first day back in the search zone. struggling with wind and waves, the damage happening as crews hoisted it on deck for inspection. the day's mission aborted, no data collected. the bluefin has been repaired and resumes its search within hours. half a world away, the consensus is, never again. in a bid to prevent another malaysia flight 370, the aviation arm of the united nations says all jet liners should be tracked continuously, especially in the most remote parts of the world. by the end of the year, airlines with flights that go outside of radar coverage will voluntarily start global tracking. some have already started, but there's no time line for when binding standards and regulations mandating global flight tracking will go into effect. >> we feel that it is a fairly important factor that will move as quickly as possible, because the flying public deserves to have even mo

. >> rene marsh has been breaking this story. admitting the plane isn't at the search location. >> they're essentially confirming what we told you just 24 hours ago. flight 370 is not where they thought it was. they searched a 329-square-foot zone where the four underwater pings were detected, and it simply is not there. a u.s. navy official told cnn the very same thing yesterday. we now know that because they didn't find anything, the search area expands to about 23,000 square miles. that's a lot of ground to cover. a much larger area to focus on. we're talking about hundreds of miles elsewhere along that inmarsat arc. and we do know that that search won't resume until months from now. erin? >> are they giving up on the pings altogether? >> well, again, we know that the u.s. navy official said in very plain language yesterday that those signals are most likely not from the black boxes. we should note, though, hours after that interview aired, the navy tried to walk back that comment a little bit, calling it premature or speculat

let's get the very latest from aviation correspondent rene marsh. what are you learning? >> today, wolf, a u.s. navy source telling me reanalysis of critical data is happening right hi here in the united states. a couple u.s. ajeansys and consultants are taking a fresh look at the pinger data. we know crews have centered their search around the four pings believe ed to be from the black boxes. cnn learned in three to four weeks these u.s. agencies and consultants are expected to say whether they believe those sounds were from the black boxes or something else. bluefin-21 is about to return to the water on its 19th dive. >> i'm still hopeful that we'll find something in that area. >> reporter: the underwater drone is going back to the area where four electronic signals were detected more than a month ago. but there's growing concern some or all of those electronic pings did not come from flight 370's black boxes. the captain of the ocean shield tells "the wall street journal" that searchers increasingly doubt that the third and fourth pings came from a manmade device. thos

our experts here in "the situation room" let's get the very latest from aviation correspondent rene marsh bad information and a communication breakdown. hours passed before someone makes the critical move to activate the search and rescue operation to find flight 370. these are the details we know from today's preliminary report. a clearer version of the voice from the cockpit. at 12:41 a.m., march 8th, malaysia airlines flight 370 took off from kuala lumpur. 1:19 a.m. as the aircraft is leaving malaysian airspace, everything appeared normal. >> malaysian 370. good night. >> reporter: flight 370 never made contact with ho chi minh. moments later at 1:21 a.m. the plane's transponder goes off making it disappearance from malaysian and vietnamese radar. 17 minutes pass. at 1:38 a.m., ho chi minh centers asks kuala lumpur controllers who happened to the plane. air traffic control centers throughout the region and other planes try to make contact. in apparent confusion at 2:03, malaysian airlines reports the plane was in cambodian airspace. then at 2:35, north of vietnam. both reports false. p

let's get the details from rene marsh who is here in "the situation room." renee?e new detail that we're learning is that the data that they've been relying on for nearly two months and has led crews to the current search zone will now be reviewed again to see if there are any flaws in their calculations. reset. >> the operation must now enter a new phase. >> reporter: recalculate. >> we will make sure that there is no flaws in it. >> reporter: and reorganize. >> in the meetings we'll look at what assets may be required. >> reporter: more than 300 search flights over 3,000 flying hours and at least 1.7 million square miles of ocean off the coast of australia searched for floating debris. that's like scanning the entire state of alaska three times. the underwater search of 154 square miles also found nothing. a giant operation back to the drawing board. >> one of the key elements of the next stage will be to undertake more detailed oceanographic mapping of the search area. much of this area has never been mapped. >> reporter: a major meeting today between australia,

rene marsh has this story. >> it was very, very very scary. >> reporter: >> i thought that we were goingd really did. >> reporter: passengers say the drop in altitude came out of nowhere. >> we were going and then all the sudden it was life and dropped off as if you were on a roller-coaster ride. >> i saw the lady 3 ft. 3 rows in front of me to describe it the plastic was cracked. >> reporter: after a passenger crashed into with this placid was crash was cracked. next. >> pam: a freak accident at the circus. leaves several performers hurt. and it was all caught on camera --- we have the video. video. >> pam: then. hey. hey. what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse... you can watch live tv from your device. hey. hey. anywhere in your home. [doorbell rings] hey. hey. so you won't miss a minute of the game. call now to get a u-verse bundle for the same great price for 2 years. guaranteed. safeway knows you don't want to fly all over town to find the best deals. that's why they have lots of ways to save. real big club card deals, the safeway app and gas rewards. for mother's day

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let's bring in aviation correspondent rene marsh first for the very latest. rene?l. millions of dollars in resources sent to search a specific area all based on this data. but only a select group has seen it with their own eyes and that is part of the second mystery unraveling here. why can't anyone else examine it? and why is the malaysian government and the company behind the data dodging responsibility for its release? the answer to where malaysia airlines 370 may be located appears to be buried in data. data that's being held close to the vest. >> the world has the right to have that data released to third parties. >> reporter: the raw data, a handful of pages detailing satellite connections the plane made, has not been publicly released. the malaysian government and inmarsat, the company behind the data, are punting the responsibility of who should release it. >> raw data is within inmarsat, not with malaysia or australia. if there's request for the raw data to be made available to the public, it must be made to inmarsat. >> the data belongs to the malaysian a

our aviation correspondent rene marsh is over at reagan international in washington. what you're learning. >> reporter: wolf, this shouldn't happen. it did happen. we're talking about a passenger plane on the wrong path, and now we're learning it was an air traffic controller new to this position who put the plane on this path and this evening the faa is investigating why it happened. an air traffic controller in training directs a united jet to turn, putting it on a possible collision course another plane departing houston bush intercontinental airport. seconds later according to the faa, the controller realizes his mistake. >> stop your climb. stop your turn united 60. >> reporter: the two flights each traveling more than 200 miles per hour less than a mile apart sending off collision warning systems. listen to stunned pilots seconds later. >> i have no idea what was going up there in the tower, but it was pretty gnarly looking. >> i expect they were supposed to give us a left turn. >> reporter: another potentially dangerous moment in the sky where two planes nearly

our aviation correspondent rene marsh mass been working this story for us. you finding out? >> wolf, it all boils down to this. for 7 1/2 weeks we were searching or they were searching for something that was not there. the u.s. navy is on camera and talking to cnn tonight. we're told the black boxes weren't in the search zone and most likely neither is the plane. it was the most promising lead, and now we know it's false. new information the u.s. navy has concluded these four underwater signals were not from the missing plane's black boxes. >> from the u.s. navy standpoint, these sounds were most likely not from the black boxes. >> yes, i'd have to say at this point based on all of the imagery data we've collected and looked at, if that block box were nearby, we would have picked it up. >> reporter: when detected in april, the pings boosted confidence the plane would be found. >> the four signals previously acquired taken together constitute the most promising lead. >> reporter: but now the navy says the sounds could have been from the search ship, itself, o

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