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Area because any chance of hearing the ping, you want it to be as pristine and quiet so nothing interferes with that. >> the fact that they heard a fifth ping, a false alarm, the fact that they havent heard any since the first four, that would reinforce the notion that the batteries are most likely dead? >> its also important that the false positive, the sonobuoy may have had a hit, thats fairly common in sonar work. you look at the accumulation of evidence and how things line up. they are doing...

A margin to last longer than 30 days, lets say the minimum is 30 days. right now, we really dont know. each of them depends on how long theyve been -- or how theyve been stored, how long theyve been on the air frame. at this point, youre still within a wento where you could detect things. >>, davi david, at some point, investigators have to decide that were no longer in a listening mode, were in a looking mode, and were going to have to rely on our eyes and our cameras to do the rest. when is th...

Batteries are completely dead because that bluefin-21 could emit some sounds that could screw up the towed locator pinger? >> right. its not possible that were going to hear another one. its a large area to search and its going to take some time but at least its not as large as it used to be. >> is four pings enough to find this box? >> i think they have stated the more the better. so -- >> they have four. one for two hours, one for 15 minutes, two for five or six minutes. is that enough, within...

Fifth prince, deekted it by another. youre not surprised that the fifth ping, detected by another means, would turn out to be false? >> no, that one was -- get that one out of the mix. >> get rid of that one right away. so the big search is still on the surface. they havent found any debris, anything from the cabin or any place else. but theyre searching an area roughly, what, they say the side of new hampshire and vermont combined. but the search under water is tiny compared to that. thats wher...

Suspicion as it stands. he made a similar comment a few days after the police chief made that comment. the transport minister is suggesting there may be more details we dont know about. he said the whole passenger manifest, the fbi looked at the simulator. that will all come out later. i find it difficult to say more without jeopardizing the investigation. he goes on to say the truth will preva prevail. we havent heard any word of any red flags being raise d. >> and as for the search, we heard a...

Square miles. >> right. youve got about 24 -- well, about 18 square miles this way. >> right. >> between these pings. the first ping they got was a two-hour journey here. so for two hours they were within somehow within that -- that reach of the pinger. these others are what im going to call outliers. >> why is there such a discrepancy, if you will, in the duration of the time? you think this is the most reliable, the two hours plus. >> without a doubt. >> then what happened here? >> what happen...

Malaysians will be on the ship, they will be there but this is going to the australians because they can look at it within six or eight hours. the americans and the malaysians will be there. the malaysians will make announcement but -- >> do the australians have experience dealing with a black box that the ntsb, the u.s. has? >> they are very similar. they have the same kind of equipment. they cross-train. i have full confidence that they can take the lead and the americans will be there with th...

Australian authorities of the search area for today. it is once again smaller than yesterday, which in turn was smaller than the day before. so they are refining the search area, were still waiting to hear about the possible black box ping, and that is according to the ships. making sense on the new flight plan before it went down. now the hope is that some other breakthrough will soon lead to tangible, physical, salvageable information. our gary tuckman has more on what it could say about how t...

Its dark down there. if its in deep sit, its going to be a tough task. wolf. >> the fifth ping we talked about so much over the last 24 hours, that now seems to be not something coming from one of those two black boxes, something else, right? >> yes, that of course the first four pings came from the ocean shield vessel towing that u.s. navy ping locator. this other thought to be ping or possible ping came from sonobuoys dropped from aircraft, dropped down about 1,000 feet, and listen in as well....

The world. we begin with encouraging words from australias prime minister. tony abbot says authorities hunting for malaysian airlines flight 370 are confident about where the flight data recorder is, "within some kilometers." thats been tempered by news from search leader angus houston. says a fifth sound picked up thursday is unlikely to be related to the missing plane. and also mr. houston says theres been no major breakthrough. crews continue to work from the four other possible ping they hav...