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Spot. what does it say about this data that they have gotten about the planes speed and the assumptions that you mentioned? >> well, originally theyre working on very rudimentary data. originally we have an airplane that turned the transponder off that became invisible. were working on military radar data which was incomplete and in some cases we didnt get it from countries it supposedly flew over. or was not made public. and then were working off a ping off the sat com system. we have been work...

To listen to this underwater acoustic pinger. we need to establish this location before this time runs out. >> i suppose that is fine fine, matt with the satellites we know where we think the debris field is go 500 miles looking at the drifts current. go 500 miles back in every sort of direction and put those two devices the one that goes underwater and the one in the service to locate the ping. we are running out of time. >> yeah, this would be the one under the surface. you need to keep in min...

Suzanne malveaux tells us what we think we know about it so far. >> reporter: from the moment malaysia flight 370 took off it was communicating with a satellite orbiting more than 22,000 miles above earth, sending out pings or electronic hand shakes to say "im here and okay." >> the ping is really like your cell phone checking that its connected with a cell phone network. >> reporter: the first three recorded pings come between 12:30 and 1:00 a.m. local time as the plane takes off from kuala lum...

Coast of perth. this is where they have been looking. this is also where we believe they have been locating the pieces of debris located on the satellite. what are they doing now? 600 miles to a new debris field closer to perth. they say the weather is a little better up here, the weather is not as rough. why do they think this? because new data from malaysian investigators suggest the last ping on the plane showed the aircraft traveling at a much greater rate of speed which means it would have ...

All of this debris is going to make a search area that could be hundreds of miles across, which is better than what we have had to date. lets put it that way. so, worrying about a little bit of a mile this way or that with the current, moving the box below the impact point is negligible when you talk about the error and the other calculations. >> except for the fact that we have only a month, so thats about 10 more days and maybe some change beyond that pinging so at least we can locate the debr...

Initiate an investigation and that that country through their investigator in charge has to secure the wreckage and make it available for the investigation. any wreckage obtained we will hold on behalf of the malaysian investigational team and await their instructions and their continual discussion was the malaysians about the progress of the search and well continue to discuss the handling of wreckage. >> would have to hand it over to the australians? >> yes. were in the search. operating on be...

Send out the ping -- and theres only a few days left for that ping to be going out -- that ping may not even be in existence any more, the batteries may not have been stored properly. tell our viewers what youre hearing about this because they really need to retrieve the flight data and the cockpit voice recorder. >> yes, theyre absolutely stuffed without them, frankly, in terms of trying to work out properly what happened. so they do need them. but if these batteries, as has been alleged by one...

8:11 a.m. >> that indicates that the plane is flying smoothly. >> reporter: but then something unusual happens. a partial ping eight minutes later recorded at 8:19 a.m., the last electronic signal before the plane disappears. >> the plane wasnt able to communicate back again and so the handshaking wasnt completed. the plane must have turned sharply, stalled, or died, something to cause the terminal on the top of the plane to be turned away from the satellite and then to try to re-establish conta...

Position from that last ping at 8:11 local time and calculated that the aircraft will have impacted the water within a 1 50-mile radius of that point. that gives a search area of 70 square miles, but it is not the same area as all that debris is. >> so many questions. >> wow. >> and you know, theres even questions about the partial ping, possibly a partial ping that inmarsat says it recorded. can you tell us anything? have you talked to any of the experts about that? >> well, again, professor st...

I think tim has done a spectacular job on his blog, smartest guy on the block. >> tim, you have quite the introduction. explain to me the analysis of the final hand shake and the pings from earlier that seems significant to you. >> thats right. there are two sorts of pings. one is a ping initiated by the satellite network, the hourly pings we see where the network checks in like it would with your cell phone to check its still connected. then you have irregular pings look like theyre initiated b...