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Could make a huge impact on the recovery or even the identification of the debris field. as the navy commander was explaining, you, you know they dont hear the ping in some locations probably because its being blocked by either parts of the fuselage or even rocks or local features on the obama. so, thats going to make it more complicated when the bluefin gets down there and uses the side scan sonar, it may not be able to pick the debris out of the background. for air france, the debris was lying...

What pieces of search equipment are these ships using? >> well, that really is the key here as to one set of ping is being taken seriously and one is not. if you look at the acoustic events, as they are called, this is the chinese one from april 5th down here. here is the april 6th one, 370 miles away. first question, can this be the same thing? not likely unless something really strange is happening with sound underneath the water there. but when you talk about the things that they were using f...

New information on malaysia flight 370 is calling it encouraging. they picked up a ping consistent with aircraft black boxes. >> clearly this is a most promising lead and probably in the search so far its probably the best information that we have had. and, again, i would ask all of you to treat this information cautiously and responsibly until such time as we can provide an unequivocal determination. i need to be honest with you, it could take some days before the information is available to es...

Me just like an emergency locator beacon. >> reporter: search crews are cautiously optimistic. >> certainly were jumping to conclusions here. we need to reacquire the signal to confirm that it is the aircraft. >> reporter: the task now? the "ocean shield" is trying to find the signal again and hoping for confirmation. if the ping is detected again, crews will launch this underwater drone. it can scan the ocean water and take photos of any potential debris. at the same time, 375 miles away, chine...

Field. >> really? they could have totally been confused. is that your analysis? >> we were questioning saturday, why does it seem like the australians are so slow to react to the chinese information? they say were contemplating what were going to do about this, well it seems now they must have already had something from the "ocean shield" that caused them to not quite believe what the chinese had. >> i wonder if it was a photo op for chinese consumption? we looked through that video and there wa...

Murder charge. well keep listening this case. in the meantime, its considered the best lead so far in the search for missing malaysian airlines flight 370. a u.s. ping locator on the australian navy ship called ocean shield picking up two separate signals in the northern part of the search area in the southern indian ocean. the pings have been heard for about 372 miles from where a chinese ship picked up signals just days ago. officials say it could take days to confirm if those pings belong t...

To get them, in terms of irregular ledges or bottom features that could be a problem with these some of these vehicles. then when they know what theyre getting into, theyll put the bluefin 21 in the water. it will go down. basically fly right on the bottom, a couple hundred feet up with cameras and sonars start taking pictures of the bottom to see whats down there. >> mary, as you have this focus onning on for one part for the "ocean shield" 300 plus miles away you have the chinese vessel with w...

Is a magnetic anomaly detector, then thats exactly what the p-3 orion uses to detect submarines just under the surface of the ocean. i think these types of equipments and technologies are optimized for submarines. theyre not optimized to find aircraft or debris that have crashed into the ocean. it all depends really on what the material is that youre looking for. if youre looking for a ferrous piece of metal, you might be able to pick something up. but if its not large, its not going to be affec...

The surface, nothing tangible to give a start point to this deployment. and so this is the result of some incredibly clever and very, very thorough analysis by the people in kuala lumpur to get the ocean shield to the right place. and then, you know, its just been amazing to get that hit in such a short time. >> les abin, usually you find debris first, and you dont get a ping from the black box. >> i think every part of this situation, its unprecedented. but one of the things that i was consider...

Underwater microphone, a hydrophone, off the back of the boat as it moves farther away from a pinger thats already been submerged. and even less than 100 yards away, the ping starts to fade. distance isnt the only problem out in the indian ocean. there are other noises competing with the sound of the pinger, like sea life. one dolphin species sounds like a black box pinger, and this is the sound of rain under water. let me get away from the loudest part of the boat, so i can show you one of the ...