Beacons Ping News Today

Havent heard back either, fred. >> hmm. and so, will, what about the sequence of events? i mean, were only hours away now from baybreak. do you know anything about the plan, what planes will get in the air? whether ships will be redirected? are authorities giving you kind of any indication? >> in a statement from angus houston overseeing the joint coordinated effort here, he said that the royal australian air force is on standby to possibly be deployed over this new area where this ping was poss...

Some sort of a ping. big question, we dont know why they were looking in this particular place. one question were hoemping to get answered from the chinese officials in beijing. the problem is, the information stream has been slow. according to a source of ours in the australian defense force, the australian command center got word there was a possible ping detected. they got word around lunchtime on saturday. by the early evening on saturday, when the chinese state news agency put out a news bu...

Not just necessarily one, since both flight recorders are equipped with pingers? >> theyre both -- both recorders are equipped with a unique pinger but the pinger is on the same frequency, so the 37.5 kilohertz is identical to both pingers. if you hear one and the other one is adjacent or nearby, youre going to hear a second ping. it wont be synchronized. the units dont talk to each other, so you will hear two independent pings at that same frequency and same pulse rate. >> and according to the ...

Again, neither of these issues, neither the pulses or the objects at this point have been confirmed as being related to that missing malaysian airliner, fred. >> matthew, earlier it was reported there was a communication problem between chinese authorities and australian authorities. is that still a problem, those two countries connecting and sharing information? >> reporter: well, its a problem in the sense that the chinese arent operating in the same way as the other seven countries that are e...

However, were only hearing a report of one ping. we know that the two beacons ping independently and not at the same time. it could be that only one pinger is working. or both are working but one is many miles away. all of that said, also, fred, its possible that this is a false positive. we heard one expert saying, gallo, saying earlier today that air france 447, their equipment had a false positive. we know that hms echo, the british ship, this week they also reported a false positive. so to g...

1278 ho 12 hours prior to this juncture, discussing it, i guess chinese authorities made everyone aware of it, australian authorities learned of it, 10 or 12 hours lost now. why wouldnt they just move the assets as they tried to get verification? >> well, what you said is right, plus now we learned that they had actually heard it the day before, too, so now we have a day and a half potentially almost two days lost, and i think what they will do, i mean, richards probably right, but i think what ...