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Be several hundred miles that the debris has blown to its new location and moved in the currents. the real goal is ultimately to make mayor way back to where the black boxes are. the there black boxes, the flight data record erd and voice recorder may answer the question of what happened here. you have them possibly submerged in depths of 2 1/2 miles, a little pinger going off once every second, very low frequency. but in the greatest conditions it could travel maybe 14,000 feet. if its in 2 1/2...

The search for flight 370 spans millions of square miles over land and over sea. the equivalent of trying to find a grain of sand in manhattan or trying to find one typo in 600 bibles. to make matters worse, the search for flight 370 is becoming a race against time, as well. the flight data and cockpit voice recorders have batteries that are designed to keep sending out pings to help locate them. that effectively would last for 30 days. and since were now 12 days in, that leaves 18 days until th...

Answers. and they cant get an answer until they find the plane. john, back to you. >> okay, jim, back to you. jim clancy live with us yet again in kuala lumpur. a coalition of 26 countries is now looking for the missing plane and china has deployed 21 of its satellites. the area is massive, roughly the size of the united states. australia has taken charge of the search in the southern indian ocean. the officials there say it could be weeks before theyre done. and as brian todd reports, time is n...

The news that they have received flight data from another country but theyre not telling us which country that might be. >> reporter: well, it could be vietnam, could be thailand. probably more likely thailand. they tracked the jet as well. the malaysians already have their own data records with that. it may assist. it may clarify some things. he mentioned that -- i dont know what thats going to accomplish. the satellite data hes talking about thats not malaysian data. thats probably u.s. data n...

Widens and the clock ticks. searchers may only have 19 days left to find the box with the flight data and cockpit voice recorders and the batteries might be down to 53%. >> the odds of finding out are very slim. even when you know roughly where the target is, it can be very tricky to find the ping. >> reporter: and you cant find that box until you find the plane. >> this is an enormous search area and malaysia cannot search on its own. >> reporter: 2.24 square nautical miles. an area as large as...

Screens. >> initial investigation shows they lost communication, they made this call the last time before they went off. >> that is a half an hour before the data recorder was switched off, ten minutes after the transponder was switched off. they havent ruled off anybody in the investigation. it is believed one of the passengers was a malaysian flight engineer. meanwhile, australia has joined the search for the missing plane which covering a huge area. flight data indicates it kept flying in the...

Straight. its confirmation saying were pretty sure this is the plane and weve tracked the right thing. it doesnt take us anywhere rçe. >> it means they looked at their records. >> we can take. that what do you make of the fact the search area is expanding wunexpand ing once again the size of the c continental u.s. are they getting more resources? >> you see naval ships. thats way too slow. were in day 11. >> theres no time. >> theyve got a french team now, one that helped with the french line t...

Right, if the mr satellite information is correct, it stayed in the air all of those hours and the logical flplace i disappeared would be in the ocean. >> pamela, theres about 20 or so days or left, maybe 18 or 19 left before the pinging from the black box -- heres one. its really orange. its not black. before those stop pinging. so these are critical moments where everyone is looking for the evidence of what happened and a lot of the evidence will be found in those flight data and voice recorde...

Enough information to draw even an educated guess on motive. >> let me ask you if im right about this information because the black boxes, obviously, would be critical. my understanding is the pings they give off only cover about 15 miles and were looking at a search area potentially of up to 300,000 square miles? something insane like that. and then how long are they active? how long will they last? about 30 days? >> the acoustic pingers on the flight data and cockpit voice recorders are design...

If the intent was to actually hit a target along the coastline of india, for example, then the presumption that the radar is there is actually irrelevant as being a cause for this not being a likely route. >> so weve got about 90 seconds. i want to ask each of you if you could have one piece of information now that could tell you something important, what is it that you would first want to know that would lead you down the right path? >> i would want the flight data voice reporters. >> what we u...