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Of the missing malaysian flight. the submarine was unable to complete the first mission, because it has reached maximum operating depth, and it came back to surface and downloaded six hours of data, and found nothing. but they plan to the launch it again. and parents and students are walking through the pennsylvania school that was the scene of mass stabbing that injured 22 people, and classes wont continue until tomorrow at franklin regional school, and students and parents were able to walk ...

The bluefin 21 and the flight for flight 370. the bluefin reached its depth then automatically turned back when it hit about 2.7 miles down into the ocean. apparently the ocean charts were wrong on land. so explain to us what that means. >> well, a couple of things. first of all, we should know that the bluefin functioned the tway should operate. all auvs have a maximum operating depth. if they doubelow that they risk collapsing in on themselves. for safe operations they picked that depth as a d...

It was expected to scour the ocean floor for deb british the whole journey lasting 20 hours but instead, the device resurfaced after officials say it exceeded its maximum operating depth of 14,800 feed feet. >> we just hit a deeper spot than we initially planned, just bring it up, reprogram it, shift a little bit away from that deeper area and adjust our search pattern. >> meanwhile, a new detail emerging, a u.s. official tells cnn the co-pilots cell phone was on during the play and made contact...

The roughest seas in the planet at any given moment if a storm comes along. a big and complicated job, pamela. >> so i want to go to david kelly now. curious, this is clearly a very -- really, one of our last options of trying to find the wreckage in this area where the pings were detected. why are we just using one blue fin? why not more than that? >> well, pamela, thankfully these events are fairy rare and the equipment we built is used every day around the globe, so there arent a lot of these...

Here on land. just wondering about the operating depth of the bluefin and how comfortable you are in the water and depth that appears to be underneath the ship right now in the survey area? >> yeah, so as you know, the pings we think are at about 4500, to 5,000 meters down. so pretty deep. also it is a silt bottom. so environmentals are okay right now. the side scan sonar does have enough power to penetrate through the silt a little bit of a layer there. so this is a pretty powerful sonar and ca...

>> are there rovers that can do that? >> yeah, the bluefin-21 can do that. if theyre read at that operating depth they probably dont want to chance losing the vehicle. phoenix international is very capable of figuring this out so i am sure they have other things, plan b in the back of their mind. that is the team out there operating the tpl and the bluefin-21. >> and these are private teams that are contracted? >> yeah, it is a company out of largo. >> how deep can an unmanned vehicle go? >> we ...

>> yeah, the bluefin-21 can do that. and its right at that operating depth, theyre not going to want to chance losing the vehicle. >> so are there vehicles that can go farther down? >> sure. phoenix international is very capable of figuring this out so i am sure they have other things, plan b in the back of their mind. that is the team out there operating the tpl and the bluefin-21. >> and these are private teams that are contracted? >> yeah, it is a company out of largo. >> how deep can an unma...

Specification says 14,763 feet. but obviously, the ocean at this point could be a little bit deeper than that. its not fully mapped. so they dont know. i know any change in depth at that far below the surface, it could be an incredible change in pressure. is the bluefin able to operate outside its formal range if it needed to? >> yes. the bluefin standard 21 that phoenix has is rate to 4500 meters. and as you noted, thats about two and a half miles down. at that depth, the pressure is equivalent...

Triangulate, to nail down that position as close as possible. and then into that haystack will go the next vehicle. it might be the bluefin 21, if its shallow enough. think the operating depth is 4,500 meters. if were below that, then theyre going to have to go to plan b, so theyve got lots of things if their quivver they can reach out and use. i would expect something in the order of days to a week or so. >> yeah, im glad they have a very robust quivver. its great to talk to you. your insight i...

Aircraft if that is what it is. >> the next strategy will be to try to use the pinger locater. the challenge is that they are close is the operating distance. its going to be interesting to see you know, what kind of depths they come up with. but the operating depth is 4500 meters. it was 3800 meters and it would be deeper than titaniitanic. its deep for a wreck. >> what about the submarines, they are assets here, are they of use at this point? >> they may be okay to listen. but in terms of reac...