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A couple of weeks ago. erin? >> all right, thank you very much. miguel reporting live from perth. in just a few moments were going to be joined by sara bajc. her partner was on flight 370. she has been coordinating the families. i have this list here tonight, 26 questions they have submitted to the malaysian government. they want answers to these. i want to bring in first arthur rosenberg and richard quest who is covering kuala lumpur tonight. let me start with you, arthur and jeff, because your...

The second ping that was picked up by that towed pinger locator. theyre searching in a 6-mile radius around that point. now, once thats exhausted, which, again, australian officials say could happen in the next few days, they may potentially, some analysts say, turn to some of the other points where they picked up those signals. there were three other detections made. they might just broaden out the area in general, possibly along that arc, the half handshake, the so-called half handshake betwee...

This is 4,000, 4,5000 deep. >> almost three miles. >> exactly. so i think to sort of suggest well, they havent found it in nine searches. it must all be wrong. lets head off home. i think thats simply not realistic. and it doesnt adapt common sense. >> so jeff, what is your take on this? look, thats a fair point. air france on the flight 447, they had debris and it still took them years to find the plane. they didnt have pings, so it can be very difficult. they have indicated once theyre done se...

And what would you say are kind of the beginning the flight path would you say are the questionable assumptions that people should be thinking about? >> well, some people are thinking we really know that the malaysian authorities are correct in assuming this anonymous track from pyongyang is really mh-370. lets assume that it is. once it disappears from of radar, we only have one source of the fate of the aircraft. thats the ping. every our or so, kind of an a regular basis, it transported a han...

Best sound was located, the ping that was the most promising. now, if the bluefin comes up with nothing after continued observations, at least it will have eliminated this part of the indian ocean as a place where the plane is likely to be. but then that means lets go back and look at the evidence that we had in the first place and see if theres a wider area that might make sense to explore. >> they have to go back and look at that data again. michael, the other phase of the search, we talk abou...

Kit, whether there needs to be additional elements added to it. and itll be to look at the search to that point. see whether or not theyre satisfied that the area searched thats been searched as much as it could be. look at the math that went into making a calculation on the pingers. look at the math associated with the handshake estimates, and keep going. >> and by the handshake estimates, its the signal from the plane to satellite. >> to satellite. >> so is there any thought now that, perhaps,...

>> and by the handshake estimates, its the signal from the plane to satellite. >> to satellite. >> so is there any thought now that, perhaps, the pinger estimates. that is hearing the ping and saying, okay, lets narrow the search area down, is there a thought that the -- those estimates were wrong and it could be someplace else? and is there any thought that perhaps they werent pingers on the plane? >> well, on the first point. im not sure, of course. im not intimate with the research. but from ...

As you describe, imagine drawing a six mile diameter circle around the ping areas and then putting a square around that. and thats what the submersible has to do. has to cover all that area. and they need to cover that first. if that does not turn up the wreckage, then absolutely they should bring in more equipment. >> but thomas, how discouraging is it in your view if they abandon the use of the bluefin any further this week or just over the matter of a couple days more before pulling it out of...

Dont think any country wants to back out of that. the bluefin 21 continues in concentric circles, something along those lines, covering that area of about 200 square miles of the ocean floor there, a little over half way through that now in this eighth search, well find out how much of that they got through as well, they are moving toward the most likely point of the area, where the strongest ping came back from, back on april 8th. randi? >> miguel marquez, thank you very much. still to come o...

Pro probability of finding some wreckage. that was base on a number of of analyses that gave us our best shot. it was the pings plus data and we had that doppler phase analysis. >> the satellite pings? >> correct. we made certain assumptions about the performance of the airplane and brought us to this area. the way i look at it the pings focused us in certain discrete areas. the first area with the first ping, they may find something in the next five so-to-seven days but on the chance they do, y...