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Out. sure, they might have been outside the search zone. theres questions about that. are they running their own race? all those sorts of things. if theyve got a ping of some kind, lets go check it out. lets eliminate it or maybe its positive. and this, as i said earlier, this is the most bizarre mystery in aviation and it may well be theyve stumbled on it, so lets check it out. >> geoffrey, weather is expect to be good today. its sunny where you are. 9:08 a.m. in perth now. how confident are yo...

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Area thats been the focus of the search effort here so far. they describe them as different sizes. some of them bright meaning they could be solid, maybe possibly metal. meantime, we also have a dozen planes and some maybe possibly five, six ships using the latest intelligence to try and locate the plane. all of the equipment that the is is seconding to help has also arrived here in perth, including technology to help find the data recorder. and investigators are looking into a newly discovered ...

They ran this equation and said its right there somewhere in that region. thats allowed them to cut a gigantic search area down into something much more manageable and promising. >> well take a short break. w when we come back we know the search zone is narrowing. >> well show you some of the technology being used to find the missing plane. latte or au lait? sunny or bubbly? cozy or cool? "meow" or "woof"? wheels or wheeeels? everything exactly the way you want it ...until boom,

Bart, would you say now that were looking at three different satellite images of possible, possible, debris in the south indian ocean, would you say this is a hopeful sign we could be narrowing in on where that plane might be? >> well, its definitely hopeful, but the problem with finding the debris is getting to it and trying to confirm it is a part of the plane. one of the challenges with the satellite pictures is the first two from a commercial satellite and from a chinese satellite were pictu...

As a piece of a plane. but, it could be something as small as a seat cushion or a life vest. finding wreckage is like finding the needle in the hay stack. if only they could find the hay stack. >> thats a sonar buoy. >> correct. >> reporter: these devices are deployed in the indian ocean to monitor sounds and map the wind and ocean currents in hopes of narrowing down the search area. it has to fly in straight lines at 1,000 feet. at this height, a fishing boat can be obscured. this boat is about...

Visual. so aircraft for highly skilled observers looking out of the aircraft windows and see out the objects. >> some sensors are being dropped to monitor water direction and speed in hopes of further narrowing down the search area. but still, the mystery about what happened. inmarsat which monitored the last data from the plane believes that it likely went from a stable altitude raising question about whether the plane was flying on autopilot. wolf, this aerial search now has gone on so long th...

Because again, these satellite images are four days old. no one has found the actual debris. we dont know what it is at this point. >> no, we dont. there are all kinds of things it could be. im hopeful this is something from the airplane. as you know im sure, if they did find that it was, thats good and bad. its good that we would finally get to a place we could begin to backtrack a little bit and find the main debris field and maybe get a hold of the boxes that tell us what happened on that air...

Mary, to you first. you represent victims of negligence by transportation companies, including the airlines. when you look at this new information that we have now about narrowing the focus, giving new coordinates, what do you make of this? >> im hoping its two things. im hoping these unnamed countries that have provided additional information have radar coverage to give us better information and i hope over the days weve gotten little bits of data that they have been cleaning out the white nois...

>> for whatever reason, very disturbing. thanks very much. were also learning more about the reasons why the search for the airliner is narrowing and why the focus is now on that far end of the southern search zone. lets go to barbara starr. what are you picking up over that, barbara? >> australia is searching a vast area, but right now, focus on about 117,000 square miles, big enough, isnt it, off that western coast of perth. the map really tells you everything you need to know about this. how ...