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For anyone thats ever gone scubadiving or, you know, been down there in any sort of vehicle, but this is definitely -- if the chinese heard what they think they heard on the same frequency, it has to be a manmade object of some sort. >> ill not be so definite but most likely its a manmade sound. were certainly hopeful its the locater beacons for the black boxes. >> we do indeed. colleen, let me ask you. when you look at these -- the search for these batteries or these data boxes, are the current...

Four orange objects spotted sunday, thought to be a compelling lead. those four objects are not from the plane. they are fishing junk. this morning an australian vessel, the "ocean shield," will make its way to the search area, carrying a high-tech u.s. navy pinger detector. it can scan under water for the planes data boxes. cnns paula newton joins us now, live in perth, australia. certainly, those four pieces, the pieces of orange debris, thought to be a good lead, now an empty lead. searchers ...

>> and lets say they go a couple of years or whatever and they do the payouts. and then we find the data boxes and there is something wrong with the engine or something that can be traced to boeing. then could one sue again? >> sure, if the statute of limitations hasnt run and if you find the plane and if you -- in finding the plane you can discover or investigate a mechanical failure. i mean there are all of these unknown scenarios. >> so bottom line, fred, you know, not knowing what happened t...

High cost of streaming live data, especially video from the cockpit. but the real issue in this case was all the systems on board the aircraft already stopped transmitting. i think what the regulators will do after this is look at this and figure out how to foolproof those systems so that transponder cant just stop working, the data messaging system cant stop working -- >> so sort of pilot proof? >> right. >> equipment. >> the. i lot has to have some authority to turn off the electrical systems ...

Are always searching the ocean floor for, you know, the boxes, the data boxes will tell us something. so i put it to a former member of the national transportation safety board, and i said if these -- whoever did this and was sophisticated enough to cut off two communication systems on the plane, could they have also cut off these data boxes. and heres what one had to say. >> it is possible to make them not work. and a knowledgeable crew could interrupt the electrical power to the circuitry and ...

Get to the circuit breakers and to interrupt the power. >> so i have to tell you, fred rhee kashgs i talked to another expert shortly after that who said i actually dont think its possible to interfere with those data boxes. but another thing about it is that the noise that these data boxes emit so that you can find them in cases such as this have about a 30-day life span. so times awasting as they say. were eight days into this. so thats what a lot of the -- obviously theyre looking for plane w...

Significantly damaged. unfortunately, thats the one investigators really need to discover the information. essentially the flight data recorder metrics of the plane, metrics of the aircraft, all that data was recovered and extracted but when it came to the flight voice recorder, that box thats in the cockpit that gets every last detail of what happens in the last few moments before a crash, unfortunately that information they have failed to extract at this point. they are having big problems wit...