[Jim Sciutto, Cnn Anchor:] All right, well, thanks very much to our Martin Savidge and Mitchell Casado inside of that 777 exploring all of the possibilities that could have happened right inside of a real cockpit. You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Jim Sciutto in New York today for Don Lemon. And we would like to welcome viewers watching around the world this hour on CNN international. We are following the latest developments in the search for Malaysian airlines flight 370. We are also following this important story, confrontation in Crimea, Russian, armored vehicles crash the gates and take over a Ukrainian military base. Gun fire has erupted. But first, any minute now the invigorated search for missing Malaysia flight 370 will begin as the sun rises over the Indian Ocean. Crews will fly from Perth Australia armed with several new clues in the aviation mystery that have befuddled the world for 16 days now. New clues could be a big break. A spotter on an Australian plane reported seeing several small objects yesterday, including a wooding pallet floating in that same search area. And there is this, I want to show you this image, a potential piece of that missing jumbo jet. A Chinese satellite spotted this object floating in the search area Tuesday. The object appears to be very large, 74 feet long by 43 feet wide. And this new object was spotted roughly possibly 75 miles from possible debris that appeared earlier on Australian satellite images seen here. Meanwhile, the families of the missing 239 people on board are frazzled, they are exhausted, frustrated and demanding more from the Malaysian authorities.
[Sciutto:] And responding to that kind of anger, Malaysian officials promised the do more for those desperate families trapped in a heartbreaking wait for answers, waiting in agony now for more than two weeks. And we can't forget the search for the missing plane on land. Right now, the Malaysian authorities are waiting for permission from Kazakhstan government to use the country as staging area for a search of the northern corridor. We have teams of reports covering every angle of the global hunt for the missing jet in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in Beijing and Perth, Australia. We are going to get you the very latest. And here is the very latest we gave from the ground. CNN's Kyung Lah is live in Perth, Australia. We can see the sun just coming up behind her there. It is morning there. The sun rises. This is the key hour when those jets can return to sky. What kind of assets are going to be up there today over that area where the Chinese satellite picked up this possible debris?
[Kyung Lah, Cnn Correspondent:] Well, Jim, we are on the cost of daybreak, and it is just now that we are anticipating that those turbo jets or the military planes should be charging up and just launching what will be the fourth day searching off of Australia, heading down about four hours southwest of where I'm standing. And what we are expecting regarding those assets that you are talking about. We are going to have more assets in the air according to the Australian government. Two planes from China, two which one of which we saw landing yesterday at Perth international airport arriving from China, and that will joining the Australian hunt as well as the New Zealand planes, and the civilian planes. On those civilian planes are spotters who are trained with the naked eye to scan the sea to see if there is any debris. So what they are going to be doing is trying to whittle down the search area, check out the seas, try to figure out if the debris that has been spotted is in fact connected to the missing plane Jim.
[Sciutto:] Kyung, I want to ask you. I have this curiosity. I'm sure some of our viewers have the same. When you look at the image, the Australian images from a couple days ago and this Chinese image today, as similar sized object. There are 75 miles apart but the currents are swirling down there. Is it the working assumption of the searchers that they are looking for the same thing spotted in the two different photographs?
[Lah:] Well, it is a possible. Certainly, they don't know. But they have the work on the fact that this is another clue. And it is these clues and the best possible lead that we have had since this jetliner simply vanished. It is yet another clue. And so what the search teams are trying to do is to chase this clue as aggressively as possible. If you talk to the people going up into the air, you sense the same thing that they keep saying even though they return without having found anything, they are driven by this desire and hope that they can give the families some answers, because right now, they don't have anything and they want to give that to them.
[Sciutto:] And now they have their own mission patch for the search for flight 370, and all of the folks taking part from so many countries. Thanks very much to Kyung Lah, joining us from Perth, Australia. And joining me now to discuss this developments, we have Les Abend, CNN aviation analyst himself, a 777 pilot, Tom Fuentes, CNN law enforcement analyst, former FBI assistant director and Steve Wallace, CNN aviation analyst, FAA investigator. So we have a number of folks here who have been investigating just these kinds of events. Steve, if I could start with you. So search planes returning to the sky now just a few minutes. How can they make the best use of the daylight hours because the other challenge they have, it takes them four hours most of these aircraft to get to the point, the search area. They only have a couple hours on site and they got to turn around to come back. How do may make the best time there so they maximize their chances of seeing something?
[Steven Wallace, Cnn Aviation Analyst:] Well, just note at the outset that, you know, we are 12 times under way approximately, and this is the time of the year when the days are of equal length in northern southern hemisphere. So basically, you know, if it is daylight in New York, it is dark there, and vice versa. So I would assume they might take off in the predawn darkness and get there when the light first becomes available. You know, they just have to zero in, I mean, we have all looked at those images, a lot of us as Captain Abend there has said looks too big to be a typical floating piece of structure. I think it is simple as getting a closer look. You know, now if it is airplane were run so that all of the fuel was out, I might be a little more inclined to accept the possibility that it could be the wing of the airplane which would be buoyant and the engine might shear off so possibly could be a floating wing.
[Sciutto:] Steve brings, Les, if I could bring you in, a fair question there. A plane hitting water at speed is like hitting concrete. And a lot of the pilots have said difficult to imagine a piece that large. There are the possibility collection of pieces, right? You know, it is tangle up in wire from the plane, this sort of thing. When you look at those images, do you look at them and say, it is possible that it is part of the plane?
[Les Abend, Cnn Aviation Analyst:] Absolutely it is possible. It depends upon what angle, you know, the airplane hit the water and how fast the speed. The interesting thing is that if indeed it is a wing, that fragment, you can start the accident investigation process by just looking at the fragment where it came off of the fuselage of the airplane and how fast it hit the water, so.
[Sciutto:] And also looking for the other signs and soot, for instance, signs of an explosion, you can test for residue.
[Abend:] Absolutely.
[Sciutto:] But you have made the point before the longer these pieces are in the salt water, you know, the degradation of the evidence in effect.
[Abend:] Yes, of course.
[Sciutto:] Tom, I wonder if I could bring you in, Tom, You know, your experience as the assistant FBI director in a number of investigations. There is a lot of frustration with this investigation from the beginning. First of all, looking in the wrong place, right, for a long period of time, but also sharing of intelligence, satellite photos, radar, tracking information, and that kind of thing. Do you get a sense that the sharing, that the organization, the leadership is getting better in the hunt for this plane?
[Thomas Fuentes, Cnn Contributor:] Jim, you know, I sure hope so. But every aspect that you mentioned was really the sharing and coordination between the aviation services, their military, their civil aviation authorities and the technicians looking at the radar data and the satellite data. That is a different matter than the level of law enforcement cooperation that started day one, and has working on this case all along with the FBI, the permanent office that is in Kuala Lumpur. The agents invited immediately into the command post the very night that the plane disappeared. So that coordination and cooperation has been ongoing and very, very good. It is just the confusion that is really the result of whether it was mechanical failure or pilot or hijacking or the plane flew, you know, thousands of miles or destructed, all of that is the technical part of the condition of the aircraft and where it may have gone.
[Sciutto:] I'd like to since we have the international viewers joining us now, just invite you the tweet questions to me @Jimsciutto. We have a number of opportunities over the next couple of hours to discuss these questions, so please do send them our way. But before we finish this segment, Les, if I could come back to you. The world is now focusing on the South Indian Ocean. That is where most of the resources are, but they have not given up on the northern corridor that goes over land. You made the point that it is important to keep the focus on the possibility that this plane ended up on the ground? Why is that?
[Abend:] Absolutely. Just by virtue of the emergency locator transmitters not sending out a signal which they don on very strict
[Sciutto:] All right. And we did know that Malaysian authorities today have asked Kazakhstan to look as well. So they haven't given up on that northern corridor, although the bulk of the assets are now down in the South Indian Ocean. Thanks very much. Les Abend, Tom Fuentes, Steve Wallace, thanks for joining us. I know we will come back to you. Besides playing debris, investigators are looking for a certain sound to help them find the flight 370. Up next, we will explain why that sound is so important and why investigators need to find it as soon as possible.