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Drag out the search a lot longer. this bluefin 21 submarine takes six times as long to search as the towed pinger did. each mission will take 24 hours to complete. today the sub can only cover an area of about 15 square miles. the entire search area is the size of los angeles. that means the search with just the submarine could take up to two months. >> i would caution you against rising hopes, that the deployment of the autonomous underwater vehicle will result in the detection of the aircraft ...

Recorder is now done. >> well, i would state that its day 38. if you remember when we had a briefing seems like a long time ago, now. but weve had 30 days shelf life. and then, possibly out to 40 days. and factor is that well almost be totally expired. we havent had a single detection in six days so i guess its time to go underwater. our concept was if we get an area we can identify from an acoustic search wed go underwater. that is why the ocean shield is caring the pinger, to get initial detec...

There was a detection there. that has been analyzed and has been discounted as a credible transmission. so at the moment, this is really all weve got. weve got no visual objects. we have -- the only thing we have left at this stage is the four transmissions and an oil slick in the same vicinity. so we will investigate those to their conclusion. and thats where we are. thank you very much. [ inaudible question ] >> thats the only leads at the moment, yes. and of course -- >> we have been listenin...

A strategy shift in the search for flight 370s black boxes. >> its time to go under water. >> reporter: and possible new evidence. >> an oil slick in the same vicinity, so we will investigate those to their conclusion. >> reporter: its been six days since the last pings were detected in the south indian ocean. searchers believe the pinger batteries are probably dead. so theyve retired the pinger locator and launched bluefin-21. the underwater vehicle will scan the sea floor for wreckage. >> i wo...

Lets bring in michael holmes live in perth, australia, for all the details. good morning, michael. >> reporter: good morning to you, kate, from perth in western australia. yes, thats right. those four pings that were now pretty certain came from the flight recorders well, they havent heard anything since last tuesday nearly a week. and theyve given up hearing more. they now think that the batteries have gone flat and it is time to move in for a new phase. ray shift in the search for missing mala...

Simple in comparison, we are looking at this job with morse code. the vehicles have to have a high degree of autonomy searching the sea floor. >> finally, christina, it is not like you can pull out a map from the glove box and search the ocean floor. >> the ocean is home to the longest mountain chain. we mapped less than 5% of that. in this area, the search area, they are ready to send, they need to do a thorough survey to have a better sense of what is on the sea floor. >> thanks so much to bot...

Been found the haystack and were going straight in on the needle. what weve done so far is phenomenal, unprecedented. and were in a transition, ang it houston has a judgment call. when you put down the auvs that gets in the way of the ping locator and getting in the way of the sound and detection and everything else. you cant do both at the same time. so the ping locator looking for the ping -- >> thats what theyre waiting for. >> thats the just call. i said from the outcome, the judgment call, ...

Here is the image of the morning. searchers on a ship overlooking the bow for anything related to flight 370 while towed pingers search for sound underwater. the ongoing investigation into what happened to flight 370 is the unfinished story this morning. in malaysia, the focus is on the pilot and the route that the plane took. we heard this week that the plane dipped to an altitude of 4,000 feet or 5,000 feet apparently to avoid detection. air force colonel has flown with

Have had no detection of any debris. realistically, how far away can this debris field be from your experience? we have not yet seen it. >> well, at this point it can be hundreds of miles away. and there are a few accidents, not many, but there are a few aviation accidents in history in which no debris was found. they later found, in some cases, that they were just looking the wrong place. they expected the debris to go west and they went east or vice versa, went east and it was west. there are ...

Now, what we know about the planes path to the unknown. >> reporter: it has been one of the lingering mysteries of flight 370. what happened in the first few hours after it went off course. now were learning that the plane disappeared from radar for 120 nautical miles after it made that turn and crossed over the peninsula. a senior malaysian government official and a source involved in the investigation tells cnn the plane must have dipped in altitude to between 4 and 5,000 feet. a possible sign...