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This blue fin, apparently there is one in this arena, this theater. is it time to send it down? i mean, the last ping was four days ago. >> yeah, i think it is. i dont quite understand why it is theyre taking so long to put that bluefin in, because at this point, theres no pinging going on, theyre backtracking -- ive been tracking where the "ocean shield" has been going on the marine tracker. and you can see that its just kind of going around in the same areas within 20 miles or so, looking for ...

Last ping. >> a sobering thought. i wonder if i can bring you in. you have run investigations of many crashes before. this is a really investigation unlike any other. but people want resolution. the families certainly do. malaysian officials, government officials, airlines and our viewers, lets manage expectations here. even with this data we have now, how long do you think it is before they locate possibly wreckage and begin to understand what brought this flight down? we are talking months, we...

3300 miles of running. coming up the next steps in the search for the missing plane. will the search size shrink for its sixth consecutive day. when will investigators send in the underwater drone to join the ping locater? ill just press this, and youll save on both. ding! ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, llllets get ready to bundlllllle... [ holding final syllable ] oh, yeah, sorry! lets get ready to bundle and save. now, thats progressive. oh, i think i broke my spleen! home insurance p...

Auvs in until theyve exhausted the batteries. as soon as they put those in you cant look for the pings. >> you dont want to get it confused an the auv, it may be similar. than the answer, they dont do it because of the noise. on the ships anyway, when they hear it they turn everything except for the power that they need on on the ship. everything off so they can listen for it. >> when the "echo" was out there that adds more complexity to the search because it can only work when the ping is pingi...

>> and i just want to clarify, to make sure there was no misunderstanding. youre talking about finding the location -- >> no, im talking about in the minutes after the plane had turned around, if they had intercepted the plane, we wouldnt be talking about this crash. >> intercepted it and brought it to the ground? >> well, at least, tracked it. if you have fighters beside it, you have more of a chance. >> strong statement. all right, coming up, the next step in the search for the plane. when wil...

Has been no major breakthrough in the search for mh-370. over the past week, the ocean shield detected four pings within about 15 miles of each other. excitement over a possible fifth ping vanished overnight. the signal the sonobuoy picked up was not from the planes black boxes. >> the signal from what we are very confident is the black boxes is starting to fade. >> reporter: it is now 35 days since the plane went missing, five days beyond the required shelf life. >> we call it bonus time. the b...

Been found the haystack and were going straight in on the needle. what weve done so far is phenomenal, unprecedented. and were in a transition, ang it houston has a judgment call. when you put down the auvs that gets in the way of the ping locator and getting in the way of the sound and detection and everything else. you cant do both at the same time. so the ping locator looking for the ping -- >> thats what theyre waiting for. >> thats the just call. i said from the outcome, the judgment call, ...

Why not send it down now? i mean, the last ping was on tuesday. >> well, victor, you have to go back to how the australians have approached this operation since the very beginning when they really took the lead for the southern search. theyve been slow. theyve been deliberate. theyve been methodical. and theyre doing it the right way. so what air chief marshal young has said is they want to make sure they hear every possible ping before they move to the next phase, because once you move to the n...

Pings. and so a lot of people are looking at the outliers and wondering if those are necessarily right. there is one ping that they heard for more than two hours, and theres reason to believe thats the one you should begin with. thats sort of the datum and begin at that point and move from there. >> make it the center of your search area? is that how it works? >> thats a good solid hit. >> ken, even if you move in on that and say thats the center point because of the way things can travel, it do...

Pings and confirm theyre real, theyre going to keep looking until theyre confident things are stop being sent. were well past the 30-day design limit of the pingers. we might expect to see an extra five, six days, but they are pretty much dead now. so it doesnt mean that if they rely on the ping data, were not looking at 15,000 miles. were probably looking at an area about the size of the city of washington. so its come down a lot more. that becomes feasible. if youre sending one of these aevs d...