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He promises to be back for lunch but thats the last anyone sees of him. >> the best way to characterize this is looking for a needle in a hay stack. this is 10,000 square miles. >> reporter: within hours a desperate search is underway. the terrain is rugged. the wilderness between western nevada and eastern california is vast. >> did that plane have the equivalent of a black box? >> it has an elt that can be picked up by satellites. >> reporter: radar picks up the planes track following a trail ...

Determined to exhaust the tpl to the last possible second, because they knew this was a very slow process. but they do believe they have narrowed it. the word they used was manageable. it is clearly not desirable, but the area theyre looking at now is manageable given time, patience and efforts. >> and david gallo, i keep hearing people refer to the air france investigation which you co-led in the underwater search. and i used to use that level thinking oh, it took two years to find. but you cla...

Promising, theyll swap out a camera and send it back down and say take a picture of that. >> this oil slick. i want to get your take on it. they think theyve seen an oil slick. theyve taken a sample of it near the area. does that seem possible to you? do you think thats connected? >> theres a lot of oil slicks out there. well see. >> how long do you think the bluefin operation could negotiation david. the tpo operation went longer than what some may have expected. what are you expecting in this ...

Sonar and they dont know writ is. talk about a shot in the dark. >> yes, but this is their pest chance of actually finding the aircraft on the bottom. the team from phoenix international has done this over and over again with this particular piece of equipment, and with other side-scan sonar equipment, and even though its still search for a need until a haystack this is their best shot. >> so, the process is a lengthy one. each of these missions, they can map -- what is the size of each mission ...

Been found the haystack and were going straight in on the needle. what weve done so far is phenomenal, unprecedented. and were in a transition, ang it houston has a judgment call. when you put down the auvs that gets in the way of the ping locator and getting in the way of the sound and detection and everything else. you cant do both at the same time. so the ping locator looking for the ping -- >> thats what theyre waiting for. >> thats the just call. i said from the outcome, the judgment call, ...

Previously discussed, is information there that makes you wonder how had got there. really, the old need million the haysta haystack, there it is. the haystack, the whole indian ocean the needle being that one point that -- and they are -- they are doing it correctly. >> im going to ask you, miles the haystack has gotten smaller. assuming, as arnold says, they were on top of it or close to on top of it, narrows the search area. how much -- we have been talking about -- i feel like it is another ...

So what happens if they actually locate the black boxes? its likely that the flight data and voice recorders are at the bottom of the ocean, possibly 14,000 feet below the surface, possibly even covered order resting deep in some silt. cnns george howe reports now on how crews are going to go about retrieving them in those circumstances. >> reporter: once youve found a needle in a haystack, how to you extract it? thats what investigators are up against in the search for flight 370, as they try t...

Derby that we havent found and keep continuing until the batteries run out and the auvs are deployed. we better raise our expectations for the long game because it could take years. >> it could take years. 35 days in, the mystery deepens, and we remain baffled. >> this will change the aviation industry. some saying the blocs need batteries that you know -- black boxes need batteries that you know can go longer. >> that was jeff wise and michael kay speaking to me earli earlier. centuries are e...

>> i think jeff raises a good point. i dont think its pessimism, i think its realism. throughout this investigation, youve got just enough evidence to leave all the cards on the table. and we dont have enough evidence to take any cards off the table. and thats why were left in this conundrum. there are three phases to this investigation. theres the where, the what, and the why. and we still havent achieved the where at the moment. what were doing is unprecedented when it comes to aircraft invest...

Coming up with some wild comment, theres everything. in my mind, everything points to that. i cant see at least the two-mile marker were getting, the two-mile reception. the others i believe are auxiliary bounces and pings from that, but its not giving us location. the two-mile stretch is very encouraging to me. and it is consistent and -- with the experience ive had with pingers. >> david, tom, thank you for those thoughts. stand by. its likely thousands of feet down at the bottom of the ocean....