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The signals discovered by the aircraft were in the same area as earlier pings but the australian authorities believe they came from the planes data recorders. they havent announced yet if theyre sure the pings today are from the black boxes though. they have been focusing on an area 22,000 square miles west of perth, australia. the search area narrowed considerably but still is a large area to search and ocean there is about three miles deep. australias air chief says he is optimistic they will ...

Decide to devote to continue to try to find anymore pings from what they believe to be black box or flight data recorders. once they determine that there is no more point or anymore trolling along the surface of the water using the devices that they have, they will deploy the autonomous underwater vehicles to use the sonar to try to map the floor and bring back the wreckage. i want to bring back david souci, boeing captain, and aviation analyst, and private pilot, miles obrien, former inspection...

More of our breaking news tonight on the disappearance of flight 370. officials zeroing in on what could be the missing malaysian airliner. they have just moments ago right before this program slashing the size of the search area, and they say they have identified two more sets of pings. that brings it to four total that they say they believe at this point is from that planes black box. the latest developments mean investigators could be just days away from taking the search to the next level, w...

Of course, the caulk hit voice recorder only records the last two hours so that might not yield the data theyre looking for. the flight data could indicate, nic, if there was any kind of mechanical failure on board, isnt that correct? >> reporter: that is correct. and this is why they believe that these data recorders will be only able to provide part of the information from the investigators, as much as they can get from the aircraft, which would be an aircraft that can be recovered or searched...

Accommodate the families if they decide to fly here. he used the words, when they come, not if they come. he said when they come. more optimism than we have ever seen so far in this search on day 33. >> they have detected the four sounds. the two they detected on saturday they determined they werent naturally occurring sounds. this he did come from a black box. many are wondering, why not just send the submarine down right now to look? why dont they? >> reporter: there are a lot of people who ar...

Yet, no piece of flight 370 thats been spotted or recovered in the indian ocean. we have four pings. theyre going to continue listening as long as they can to try to zero in on the location. each time they hear a ping, they can get a better idea of where these data recorders might be and thats when theyre -- the next step would be to actually deploy the submersible and go down and take a look. theyre actually not there yet, they want to keep listening as long as those black boxes are potentially...

Malaysians who determine who examines it, its a malaysian case, they make the determination. >> since its a u.s.-made boeing 777, everybody thinks the ntsb should look at those devices. >> everybodys hoping that and the ntsb is the most qualified in the world we think but in this case the malaysians will decide. it is their decision. >> are you worried about that, mark, maybe malaysia will say, well take first look at it, were going to investigate and well get back to you? >> well, lets hope tha...

Those black boxes. john, diana? >> anna, thank you. cautiously optimistic. this is big news. they are quite confident right now. its frustrating, because, in theory, they could potentially maybe find debris. they feel this way. they dont want to do it yet. they want to fire all their guns on these signals while they may exist. they could go away at any time. >> also, like lana said, a three mile by three mile area that they are assuming that there is something under there. thats where they keep ...

Be absolutely important information. so the data recorders important, as you say, to a limited degree. but again, theres a lot of physical information. and perhaps some of that coming from the pathology that they may be able to do with sort of the medical side of the investigation that will be important, john. >> absolutely right, nic robertson off the coast perth. there was one american adult on flight 370, philip wood, an ibm employee heading home to beijing. his partner sara bajc said she t...

Australia, there have been no new sounds heard under water that could possibly be from the planes data recorders. just yesterday, officials said they were optimistic two noises picked up by u.s. equipment on a ship called the "ocean shield" might help point them to the jet. but 32 days after it went missing, time may be running out. crews today are narrowing their search with more than a dozen planes, 14 ships scouring an area roughly the size of south carolina. nic robertson is live for us in p...