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>> it manufactured to ping at that frequency so that nothing else sounds like that and operates at that frequency. that said, can you get things like harmonics or other transitory sounds that might pass through that frequency that probably dont sound like that ping or look like it if you look at it on a spectrum analyzer, you can look at other properties of the signal that are very unique to the box. unfortunately from what i gather, the chinese did not record the signal that they got so they ca...

Would hear it for a longer period of time. >> absolutely, don. i think this was a calm, measured and supremely effective response by air chief marshall houston. in his press conference, he hit a number of critical points and im looking toward the families and loved ones at this point. number one, he confirmed the ping from the chinese news agency wasnt verified. i think thats very important just to reduce everyones expectations. he then said he was actually talking to the rcc in china, the rescu...

Seconds. what does that tell you? >> well, it could have been obscure. they could have ocean currents down there that are moving it. in other words, say the flight data recorder was free of the aircraft. it might be rolling along with the currents. so that might be affecting its being able to send up a signal. it might be obscured, dirt, silt, the aircraft itself, the fuselage could be rolling. >> once youre at the ping location, assuming that we -- can we confirm it is a ping at some point? >> ...

Great part of that area before we finally found the wreck. here you dont have a lifetime, you dont have enough equipment or patients to cover the whole indian ocean. you cant do it by brute force. >> colleen, the fact that we are 30 days into that plane going off the grid and you have the life span, the battery of the black box, the emission of the ping, if it is not found relatively soon, before that ping were to go out, do you think well ever find that plane? >> i hate to say it but it would b...

Followed up. that reassures the families theyre not going to gloss over this. finally, the importance of this came through when he said he was going to redeploy those assets and i think thats what hes doing. that to me places a real importance of just how significant this ping is. >> well, up until this new information about these under water pings, perhaps the most important lead so far, there have been mainly questions, so few answers to this baffling aviation mystery, perhaps w wasbiggest eve...

To actually find the debris on the bottom. this is the beginning of whats going to be a long, long term. finding the ping narrows it down. it narrows it down so these guys can go do their long, tedious search. >> colonel kay, i dont know if youll know the answer to this question. clearly as a pilot you are very attuned to things being in one piece and flying them. youre not as attuned to seeing them on the bottom of the ocean, say, ten years later. if we find one piece of debris, if we find -- w...

Thank you so much in perth, australia, for us. we appreciate it. lets bring in our experts. david gallow, cnn aviation correspondent, richard quest. cnn aviation analyst peter g ghouls. peter, i want to start with you about this hydrophone. is it possible this hydrophone which appears to have been dipped in the water at the surface could have picked up the ping from a black box thousands of feet below the surface? >> yeah, hi, victor. its not impossible, lets put it that way. i had a chat wi...

10,000 feet and that still looks so tiny compared to the depth of the indian ocean and mt. washington stands at more than 6,000 feet and you would have to stack two of those on top of each other to get to the depths that were talking about. this is going to be a huge, huge feat if this is where they are going to have to go look for this recorder. i also want to touch on the weather because we have been watching this tropical cyclone to the west of the search area. it is going to be traveling to ...

>> its now 12:16 in the afternoon there in perth australia. as angus houston was telling us -- stand by for a second. i want to bring in paul mccarthy a former airline pilot. youve heard what weve been told. whats your thought about the acoustic events now three in three days, friday, saturday, and sunday, one day each? he is at least telling us. paul. >> i think hes just telling you that they are doing a very thorough job, and they are getting some information and they are going to prosecute bu...

They can get places quickly. the p-8 travels 500 knots. they can get places. as i was talking about previously, theyve got these passive sonars as well. they can get places and they can rule places out before you then decide to launch the vessels which obviously take a lot longer to get there. >> tim taylor, at this point, as all of the investigators and the -- the organizational team based out of the perth has effectively led everybody to understand, this search is now based in the water. gear ...