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Havent found a single piece of floating wreckage. what happens with that part of the search. >> a great question. i think the tempo which the crews and the airplanes have been working has been phenomenal and i dont think its sustainable. so i think youve got one aspect the aspects where you got human factors and fatigue. youve got the limitations on engineering, on the aircraft, the equipment. you got all of that to consider. got to regroup that and service the aircraft and strategically you got...

Analysis based on the sat data, the satellite datedata. >> the flight plans that find the pings and refine the area. >> but the key to that the analys analysis, three separate analyses led to these areas. the ping kind of fine-tunes it. whats interesting about the pings too, also, is that the pings are not omnidirectional. theyre not unidirectional, theyre omnidirectional. >> it gives you a general idea. it doesnt point you to it. >> if you were in the grand canyon shouting you would hear an ech...

To? do they start over? >> well, look, its a large area where they got all the teams from, where they are searching now is where they have the strongest ping and was the most likely area where they believed flight mh 370 went down. if they dont find it in this immediate area where they are searching now, they have to go back to the drawing board literally and figure out the next area they have to search. victor? christi? >> miguel for us in perth australia. thank you. passengers get taken off ...

We have -- they look like pings as far as all of the different -- >> but that is to where they are now. the question if they have done the sonar scan after searching that area that they have now and we havent found anything how much do they have to move that search area based on that ping information? >> well, they would have to go around the perimeter of where they have been searching and see whether there is anything -- anything there. not go to an entirely different area. one that is containe...

The search area is. if its big enough, put another piece down and lets get to work on it. >> we know the search area based on the pings that came supposedly from one of these flight date to recorders like this one. this is a ping. one lasted for two hours. they were convinced thats the real deal. in order for that ping to actually have come from a black box, they have a relatively modest area they have to search. >> im not sure how modest it is given the equipment thats searching it right now. t...

>> okay. >> okay. so youve got four pings. its about 20 miles, four miles, seven miles. at the moment, theyre around here. theyre looking here. they believe the second ping is the most promising area. now once they have really mowed the ocean and they determine thats it, theyre going to obviously look at the other ones. but after that, they have no choice. they have to start going back up otowards the sixth and seventh ping, that 300 miles further up before they can determine that this is what. ...

I dont think the government is in a position to release much, if any, information. the information has been so in consistent and they have embarrassed themselves. i think if they put anything out that is official it will only cause more embarrassment. i think they will be very careful before they publish anything official in writing. >> jeff, you have been calling for inmarsat to redata to the public. if it comes up with nothing will it be helpful to release the information. >> there is a lot of...

Peter goles is with the ntsb. tom fuentes is a former fbi assistant director. its the fifth mission right now, peter. is it time for more underwater drones? >> if theyre starting to get nervous, i think it probably is. if theyre available, bring in another two or three. >> is it a technical problem if you have more than one or two working at the same time? >> they need to keep them separate and out of each others ways. if youve got two, its not like youre listening for the ping. you just need to...

Oil planes or perhaps hydraulic fluid. they tested it. it is not related to the airliner. and probably a little bit of disappointment that it was not related but they really didnt hold out a whole lot of hope that it would be conclusive, bill. >> and how about the status of the air search? >> it is interesting, angus houston, the man heading up this search. it was interesting he saw the search winding down in the next few days. well, it continues, there is another pace. with planes up there, and...

The experts would have to answer that question. more is better certainly sounds right to me. >> how long do you think they can go before they decide theres nothing down there? youve been skeptical all along about this? do you think they should give it two weeks, three weeks? >> i think its worth backing up and acknowledging how crazy pants this whole search has been. >> did you say crazy pants. >> crazy pants is the only word i can find. you have a general sense of where the plane went down, you...