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Indonesian detection? >> its hard to alert an emergency scenario. what is more interesting about that flight path is when you overlay it to the known waypoints, these are arbitrary points in the sky that makes navigation simpler. this plane was flying to waypoints and presumably that was pinged in. somebody with aviation expertise was involved one way or the other of charting out that course. not only was it deliberately set up to avoid radar exposure, it had the waypoints build in. >> it was do...

It against? so, its very irresponsible to judge what we have right now, the more experts we have, the better in a situation where it is so unprecedented. and that quote came from the prime minister of australia, not from malaysia. and as far as the route that you mentioned, that question was actually answered two pieces ago. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. that concludes this session -- >> the malaysian defense minister on the detection of pings by ...

Entirely what that means. its possible, yes, its headed this way, but even the suggestion carol, if it was headed off for some nefarious purpose, what is that? >> because despite a few scattered islands out here, that are real small, theres no sense of where it would be going. the idea that it went around indonesia, that seems to be established by the data, if the data is correct, the interpretation, the idea that this was done for some purposeful reason, thats a different question all together,...

It could be anything. in the last segment you said i hate to say it, don, but it could be anything. but at least its something right now. and weve had nothing for so long. >> no, i agree. im thrilled that were getting some detections. and im hoping one of them pans out. i mean, it could be that the crew of the ship that makes this detection needs to go straight to vegas and put their money down, because theyre lucky men. but hey, if they get it, they get it. we -- the problem is, though, that we...

We will also decide, also later. we will announce it as soon as we set up these date line sort of time for the next of kins to be sent to perth. thank you. >> yes. could you stand up, please, and identify yourself? thank you. >> tv china. my question is more to the incoming handshake approximately six minutes after the first handshake. is there any new information we can get from this new data? and for instance, maybe the more exact route of the aircraft? thank you. >> the area where the "ocean ...

>> whoever was flying, might they have also been concerned about being shot down? >> i suppose they might but here is the one thing i have a question about and maybe you have theories about this. if the whole point is to avoid contact, why would you keep hugging along the coast. why dont you go out here? if the whole idea is to go where nobody was, there is a lot more emptiness up here than here. these are the clues that make you go over and over. >> kit, jump in. >> i dont think the object coul...

Two separate signals occurred in the northern part of the defined search area. the first detection was held for approximate approximate lyly tw minutes t ship then lost contact before attempting to reacquire the signal. the second detection on the return leg was held for approximately 13 minutes. on this occasion, two distinct pinger returns were audible. significantly, this would be consistent with transmissions from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. i need to be hon...

The plane presumably would not be far away from the two bloack boxes if in fact the two hours of pinging the u.s. navy says it detected were coming from the one black box, another 15 minutes from the second, thats a very encouraging development. >> right. thats what theyre saying, wolf, marine life and seismic events could not have lasted that long, that precisely at that frequency. thats what theyre basing their optimism on right now. >> the chinese detection of pings the day before, most exper...

Voice recorder. if thats, you know, thats the sort of signals we were getting. do you want to say any more on that? >> thanks. my understanding is there were around 2,000 yards, just under 2,000 yards apart. of note, the first detection was made whilst the towed pinger locator had been retracted, so it was much, much shallower. the reason they do that is at the end of each turn, as the ship pushes around, ocean shield reverses course. if they dont retract the towed pinger, the effective movement...

Very much, live from perth. joining me now on the phone, navy commander william marks of the u.s. seventh fleet, hes onboard the u.s.s. blue ridge, leading the search for flight 370. thanks for taking the time. at this point, you havent reconfirmed the pings from the flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder, right? >> thats correct. we have not yet been able to reacquire this signal, and as encouraged we were about two days ago when we first got the detection, as the hours pass, we are -...