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Search in the southern indian ocean where they have picked up some possible pinging sounds they continue to explore and now our nic robertson has new information. he is live in kuala lumpur for us from there. nic? >> natalie, we have new information about the flight path of malaysian airlines flight 370. we understand from a senior malaysian government official that when the aircraft took off, we know that this -- the aircraft took that left turn from its original track on its way to beijing. we...

>> like a drone, or towed along on a sled. we call that a towed array. and we havent gone to that phase yet, because we havent had that initial starting point. >> what happens when the batteries for those flight data recorders, the cockpit voice recorder, are dead, and the pingers -- the pinging is no longer going? where do the investigators, the search operation go from there? >> well, you see each day that the search area is shifting around. and thats because data thats being gathered from the...

Difficult search ever undertaken. the most difficult search ever undertaken. but i can assure people that the best brains in the world are working on this. and every day, working on the basis of just small pieces of information, we are putting the jigsaw together. >> ron mccallum helped lead the search for air france 447. good morning. >> good morning. >> okay. so they shifted the search zone a little north, but not much. at this point, does it matter? >> oh, yes, i think it does matter. it show...

Search, 128,000 square mile area, this might not be the right location? >> this the thing. we really dont know. until we find something clearly tagged back to the aircraft, we dont know i have faith in the people that have been running retro navigation exercise with the handshake data. obviously that steered them down to this corner of the world. i trust in those people, the technical abilities. at the moment thats all weve got to go on. >> the use of this u.s. pinger on an australian ship, weve...