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Choice could be made about 370? >> well, there was a huge commercial interest in bringing the "titanic" back. people dreamed of having amusement parks with "titanic" sitting in it. it is really hard to bring back big things from the bottom of the ocean. i think that a good visual survey over a period of a week or two would give us a lot of information, coupled with the flight recorders to really make some conclusions of what happened. >> jules jaffe. fascinating having you on. >> my pleasure. ...

It. i think we have a good location for it. the sonar pinger was giving us a good radius of search, and i cant imagine all this debris is going to light up the sonar. and i think in the next week, hopefully well find it. >> okay, ultimately, though, the bulk of the titanic was left in its final resting place on the ocean floor. do you think the more time passes the same choice could be made about flight 370? >> well, there was a huge commercial interest in bringing the titanic back. i mean, peop...

Turned out to be -- on april 5, china reported a possible ping from the chinese flight recorders. now some people are blaming the chinese for wasting time and resources in the search early on. tonight the chinese government is pushing back, after the "new york times" came out with this headline, suggesting chinese search efforts are hurting as well as helping. >> i think the point is the report is groundless and irresponsible. we express profound dissatisfaction over it. >> i just find that a li...

Question to you. do black box flight recorders have serial numbers to prove that its from flight 370? >> they do. black boxes are aircraft specific and they have identification numbers, as do literally almost all critical parts on the plane. they have unique identification numbers that say that that part is on this plane and those records have to be maintained by the airline. >> and that way they can always confirm, in case there was other debris or an area where lets say it wasnt at the bottom ...

>> reporter: wolf, it sounds roughly similar to the investigations that get started like in washington, perhaps the space shuttle mission, the 9/11 commission. its questions that need to be answered in a thoughtful way, this investigative committee will look into air worthiness, flight recorders, human factors, weather concerns, all of the things that really could help explain how a jumbo jet could seemingly go missing without a trace. with a couple hundred people on board. >> i want you to list...

The indian ocean it becomes even more important to find those black boxes. malaysias transportation minister said until the flight recorders are located its difficult to clear the passengers and crew of any wrongdoing. i know what you are saying, what? because it wasnt long ago that malaysias inspector general, the police, cleared all the passengers. left hand. >> as we have said earlier, only the passengers have been cleared. the rest, no. >> fast forward to sunday when these comments were made...

Than there have been in expectations that something would be found. now were hearing from angus houston, dont expect necessarily that something will be found. >> i guess angus houston has got the tough job of actually finding the wreckage. whereas the prime minister is basing his comments on input from different sources. the reality is that it is a really difficult task to find the aircraft wreckage on the ocean floor. and it is not necessarily flat terrain, for one thing. it could be hidden on ...

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...

And interpretation of different data that have resulted in them searching where they are. and like any good search activity, you need some triangulation in order to fix the point where there is the highest likelihood. it seems to me that the analysis of the returns from the flight recorders has given them a standard of a search area. and they stand to move. theyre confident that it is accurate enough to start looking on the floor of the ocean for the wreckage. >> it will take a long time though,...

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