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

air force orion aircraft arrived in the area about 1:50 this afternoon. or further, three aircraft have been tasked by rcc australia to the area later today, including a royal new zealand air force orion and a united states navy poseidon air kraflt. the poseidon aircraft should be on scene now. the second australian orion departed at 2:00 this afternoon and should be on scene at 6:00 this afternoon. the new zealand orion is due to depart at 4:00 this afternoon and should be on scene at 8:00. a royal australian air force c-130 hercules aircraft has been tasked to drop data marker bu s buoys. they are providing information about water movement to assist in drift modeling. they will provide an ongoing reference point if the task of relocating the objects becomes protracted. a merchant ship that responded to a shipping broadcast issued by rcc australia on monday is expected to arrive in the area about 6:00, having been diverted by rcc australia. the royal australian warship hma success is on route to the area, but it's some days away. she is equipped to locate any objected located and proven to be from mh 370. the focus is to continue the search operation with all availabl

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

air force orion aircraft arrived in the area about 1:50 pm this afternoon. a further three aircraft have been tasked by rcc australia including a royal new zealand air force orion and the united states navy poseiden aircraft. the poseiden should be on the scene now. the second australian orion departed royal australian air force base pearce at 2:00 pm this afternoon and will be on scene at 6:00 pm this afternoon. the new zealand orion is due to depart at 4:00 pm this afternoon, and should be on scene at 8:00 p.m. a royal australian aircraft cis 30 herbinglies has been tasked to drop marker boys. these as rcc australia by providing information about water movement to assist in drift modelling. they will provide an ongoing reference point if the task of relocating the objects is protracted. a merchant ship that responded to a shipping broadcast issued by rccs australia on monday is expect to arrive in the area about 6:00 pm, having been diverted by rcc australia. the royal australian navy war ship hmas "success" is on route to the area but is some days away. she is equipped to recover any object located and proved to be from flight 370. the focus or a m.s. a is t

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

further three aircraft have been tasked to the area later today including a royal new zealand air force orionposidoen should be on scene now the orion departed at 2:00 p.m this afternoon and should be on scene at 6:00 p.m this afternoon the new zealand due to depart at 4:00 p.m this afternoon and should be on scene at 8:00 p.m . a royal australian air force c 130 hercules aircraft has been tasked to drop data marker buoys. these marker buoys assist by providing information about water movement, to assist in drift modelling. they will provide an ongoing reference point if the task of relocating objects becomes pro tracted. having been diverted by rcc australia. the royal australian navy war ship hma success is on route to the area but is some days away. she's proven to be from mh 370. the focus for answer to continue the search operation with all of available ships and aircraft. the ships and aircraft as searching for any signs of the missing aircraft. weather conditions are moderate in southern indian ocean where the search is taking place however, poor visibility has been reported this will

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

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

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

air force p-3 orions. a japanese coast guard gulf stream 5 jet. a japanese p-3 orion. a republic of korea p-3 orion and c-130 hercules aircraft. a royal new zealandce p-3 orion. a chinese people liberation army aircraft. a united states navy p-8 poseidon aircraft, and one australian civil jet acting as a communications relay. four of the ten aircraft are overhead in the search area as we speak. with a further six planes to fly over the area today. a further p-3 orion has been placed on stand by at the royal air force base in western australia to investigate any reported sightings. six ships are relocating to the new search area, including five chinese ships, and is expected to arrive in the search area tomorrow night. the chinese patrol ship is in the search area. the united states towed pinger locater and a bluefin 21 autonomous underwater vehicle have arrived in perth to assist in the location and recovery of the black box. these will be fitted to an australian defense vessel, which will arrive in the coming days. and the depth of the water in the search area is between 2,000 meters and 4,000 meters. thank you. the atsb, as australia's transpor

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

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

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

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

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

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