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The australian maritime safety authority and we have been doing this with the joint agency task forces. the drift models from the currents, they will look at satellite imagery and taking the data from the recent ping and joining those dots. so were confident that were in the right here, its just that its still a very large area, a very challenging search for us and its day 36, as you said, and still no information. so well keep searching. >> well, you do have some information. you have four ping...

I believe they are probably are because he has said they are, he has given the evidence. the frequency, he has explained away what they are -- >> the experts -- >> the experts, they have said stable, concise, the right -- 1.1 second chblt th-- they have they believe it is enough. but more importantly, this position is at the end of the six and a half ping satellite -- it is where it is supposed to be. >> so it is at one point along that arc. >> it is a thousand miles long, it could be anywhere. ...

. back now with our breaking news, i want to go to sky news brook court. where prime minister tony abbott talked about being very confident they have picked up signals from flight 370. she joins us now from shanghai. brook, tell us what the prime minister said. >> reporter: well, actually, when you were reporting on the prime ministers trip across asia, don, we were having a conversation about a trade agreement between australia and china. while we were in the room, the reporters started to ge...

Angus houston said the initial assessment of the signal detected yesterday afternoon, the so-called fifth ping, is not related to an underwater beacon. fran townsend, on the one hand we have the prime minister saying hes confident this is the black box they are hearing, but then you have, you know, angus houston saying the fifth so-called ping not happening. whats going on here? how confident should we be in any of this information? >> i think the head investigator angus is the person you want t...

Why need to be able to figure out where in the midst of all the pings theyre going to send down the bluefin. >> tony abbott said they are confident they are within kilometers. then send down the bluefin. >> one would think but they want to take every last little bit of juice out of the batteries. remember, there have been air crashes where they have sent down the side scan sonar and found the black boxes within a day or two and there have been some where it has been months. there was one in the ...

The prime minister could have made some offhanded comment leaving a press conference or trying to repeat what angus houston had said and didnt say it exactly. because angus houston has said he is confident it is coming from a device which is, which would be a black box. >> a flight data recorder. >> yeah. go ahead, mary. >> again, i would expect to hear this from angus houston. hes so far been good to his word. he said when he has something to announce he will call a press conference and announc...

Looked at them, theyve tried to tune them so they can detect the frequency of what the pinger should emit. the first thing. the second thing is they operate deep enough. almost 300 meters, maybe deeper, and are able to provide that good link to a better acoustic channel away from the noise of the surface. the only problem with them is they really are a narrow area search tool. when you think about it, youve got to drop sonobuoys near something youre interested, you think exists in the water. rig...

Turn out to be false positives and they havent used every last day and try to get every ping that they can. they will be in the position to find out that some of these are dry holes i think they are being overly cautious. the black boxes are where the black boxes are going to be and they will still have the job that takes several days. and i think it can do something like 40 square miles in a day. >> it is a long, slow process. there are indications that it could be soon though in the coming day...

Marinetraffic.com, which tracks vessels on the oceans water, that it actually had moved into the search area. the "hms echo" had moved into the search area around where they think the black box pinger is located, and the "ocean shield" had actually moved out of the area by some kilometers, and that could be significant, given that the british vessel, the "hms echo" is equipped not just with sensitive audio detection equipment, but its also equipped with equipment capable of mapping the ocean flo...

Background. still, we dont know who was in control of the plane at the time. >> joe johns, thank you very much. erin mclaughlin theres been another possible ping heard. how is the search changing based on the latest signals? >> i have lost my feed. >> apparently having trouble with her. that happens when it is live. how has it changed since it is 18,000 square miles and the fifth ping. >> every time they get another ping, it increases the certainty that what they found is the right thing and tha...