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Many thousands of miles where this plane could have been, that this is all relative to that narrow. but this is of course thousands of miles of shifting. will the search area move again? matthew chance is in perth tonight. matthew, whats the very latest as youre there? theyre getting ready to go out and search. and i know the planes are leaving from the base behind where you are now. >> yeah, theyre going to start leaving within the next few minutes apparently, erin. the very latest is weve had ...

Haystack, but at that stage we didnt even know which haystack. i think weve got a much clearer picture around the areas we need to concentrate on. and those will be the areas that will be associated with both the search on the surface and the debris search by aircraft today. >> all right. thank you very much, commander. we appreciate your taking the time. commander mcevoy. and richard quest, as you just saw is with me. here is the question. as you just raised the point, there has been no evidenc...

We can already hear. >> right, were actually listening to the pings pick s l ones picked up by the actual plane. >> this is what a ping sounds like. lately were hearing about high frequency pings with ever-increasing frequency. >> the pings detected pinger locaters. >> no new ping detected. >> until we got flooded with talk of acoustic events, a ping was something in a subset on the hunt for red october. >> it makes a ticking sound like a metronome. >> just with a moist paper towel listen to it ...

And unless people were alive to scramble out with life rafts, there might be few clues it was ever there. and only a small target far beneath the surface. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> so richard, here is the thing. most any scenario ends up with pieces and debris somewhere, except for that kind of perfect landing on the surface, which would be incredibly difficult to pull off here. >> and even that you can argue as the plane went down, the pressure would crush and something -- >> right. at s...

Desperate. the underwater search has been continuing around the clock. so far, though, nothing. today, australias ocean shield, the ship that heard pings over the weekend is at the northern end of the defined search area. and at the south, the chinese ship haixun 01 which also believes it heard pings over the weekend, which by definition would be unrelated because theyre hundreds of miles apart. the british ship hms echo is joining the search. its been two days since searchers on the ocean shiel...