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>> smoke in the cabin. >> the plane crashed in the florida everglades. 110 people died. it led to new cargo hold safety rules. but not finding flight 370 or its data recorders could be a missed opportunity for change. >> whatever brought down that flight, whether it was fire, hijack, pilot suicide, explosive decompression, a bomb, whatever, its important to find that out so we can fix it so it doesnt happen again. >> reporter: and its security, too. the september 11th hijackings led to strengthe...

Just the first search, the search for one solid clue to tell them where to look under water. the search above water can be fairly fast. were off the coast of australia now. theyve been moving through those areas over there. theyve defined and redefined them and moved them around. they can search maybe 90,000, 100,000 square miles a day in one of those areas because they can fly over it and look. but when you talk about diving down into the water, when you talk about getting deeper down under the...

Laboratory on air canada flight 797. the plane landed but 23 people on board died. after that smoke detectors and automatic fire extinguishers were mandated in aircraft lavatories. in 1996 hazardous cargo on a flight caught fire. the plane crashed in the florida everglades. 110 people died. it led to new cargo hold safety rules. but not finding flight 370 or its data recorders could be a missed opportunity for change. >> whatever brought down that flight, whether it was fire, hijacked, pilot sui...

In order to gain an edge over competitor. medicare doctors breathing a sigh of relief. delay of a cut to their reimbursements. it is the 17th temporary patch to a broken medicare payment system. it will stave af toff the cuts a year. chris over to you. back to our breaking developments in the search for flight 370. a transcript of the final communication obtained by cnn shows something different than what we had been told before. essentially, its about the final words where they say, good ni...

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Waves can be several stories high. so they need to make sure everything is held together correctly here. because you dont want it falling apart in the high seas. >> will ripley standing by there, ready to shadow the ocean shield, which has the black box locaters on board. we have to reduce that search zone before it can each get started. many thanks to you, will. >> if and when those so-called black boxes are recovered, the investigation will shift to washington, d.c. and some of the top aviatio...

Area. >> low probability of detection if that is our search area. lets bring in erik van sabille, lecturer at new south wales in sydney. last week we were talking about how dangerous and wild the oceans further to the south were. now weve moved into a more forgiving part of the ocean, but it is still such a huge, vast area theyre trying to search and so disappointing that the things that theyre pulling out of the ocean, its junk. were on a garbage fishing expedition at this point. tell me a litt...

Insight. i want to bring you out to the indian ocean. we have been talking about the high-tech ship, the "ocean shield" on the way back out. will ripley is on a vessel behind the "ocean shield". what is it like out there? >> reporter: we are going so quickly, the "ocean shield" is out of our sight. it is very determined to get to this search area in the indian ocean. there is a good reason why. there is just over a week left in battery life on the data recorders on flight 370. they have this g...

>> so it will set off in about 2 1/2 hours or so. and it had been delayed for some hours. talk to us about what needed to be done in that time, why it wasnt ready to set off. >> reporter: so the ship arrived from sidney over the weekend, over the past couple of days. theyve been outfittng it for this equipment that came in from the united states navy. the pinger locater, which will basically serve as a giant underwater microphone listening for the pings from the data recorders. and also whats ca...

Towed pinger locator. they drop it in the water and the microphone listens and drags along the ocean floor listening for the sound of the pings from the data recorders on board the aircraft. those data recorders, by the way, only have about a little over a week of battery life left, as weve been telling people. heres the problem. as great as this technology is, it only has about a mile radius. in order for it to work effectively, we need to narrow the search area and right now were looking at an...