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Cause the sonar to have anomalies. theres all sorts of factors. >> i read something a couple months ago where they resumed the search again saying that there was a little bit of discrepancy about where the searchers wanted to tackle next. are they all in agreement now? >> i think they are all in agreement but the search area has been continuously refined by reviewing the technical data by the inmarsat satellites. this is technology used in a very different way. its the first time that we have us...

Getting all the attention. this is why. the chinese were using a handheld device like this which even the manufacturers say is really not made for the conditions in which theyre using it nor the way they were using it. on the other one, the ocean shield, the other location, this was being used. this is the towed ping weve talked so much about here. its way behind the ship on a long cable moving very slowly. it is a much more robust, much more powerful, much more serious piece of equipment for th...

Image the area from where the ping came from and see, if they look for some sort of geometric wreckage, something that doesnt look natural, doesnt look like a rock, doesnt look like the ocean bottom or sand. theyll do that first. if they find interesting looking targets, theyll send something down to visually take a picture of it. this could take days to weeks, or longer even. >> yeah. officials say the pings that the u.s. navy detected thanks to that sophisticated towed pinger locator that it w...

Run out of fuel, this sounds like theyre on to something extremely significant. >> absolutely no doubt. what hes talking about where the famous inmarset handshakes. we know they were at every hour except that last one, wolf. that last one was just eight minutes later. we also know from handshakes earlier that there was a handshake every hour all where theres some event. possibly major change in altitude. where the airplane tries to reconnect to the satellite. what hes saying is that that last ha...

Paints a target, gives you know good information. seeing that plane in the straights of malacca. then the inmarsat satellites which are getting this handshake ping. thats an incredibly small amount of information to base this investigation on. so we have that and basically using old-fashioned advanced algebra and geometry, the experts have been able to look and plot what they believe are these search zones. but quite frankly, at this stage of the investigation we would consider success finding j...

Youre the one who believes this investigation has been bungled from jump street. tell me how. >> i know were beating up on the malaysians, michael. and i know we have the best assets in the world and everybodys putting a good face on this and trying to do the best they can. so theres no question of that. whether it was by design or default, the malaysians were either caught off guard or just didnt know how to carry out this investigation. lets go back and understand why were in the situation wer...

Be fewer resources available. in your mind, when do we reach that point? >> well, certainly not yet. if air france 447 is any indication, that went on a couple years. tw 800 took four years to finish that investigation. they put hit back together. cases red heart over, between four to seven years. i dont think the investigators will give up any time soon. if they run out of clues on wreckage, i think the next place to send sonar side scanners, trailing fish, if you will, the navys listening devi...