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So starting with what youre getting from the hydrophone. >> right. and so the hydrophone, you could just put a headset on and listen to the hydrophone and listen to the ping, but you also have a visual display, where youre looking at the actual sound coming out of the ocean. so this is ocean sound here. and theres some noise source in this particular part of the frequency. but if you were there with the pinger, you see a really sharp spike at the spot where the pinger is. so once you got within ...

Satellites. were data satellites. it will require a lot of different people to finally confirm what happened to flight 370. >> i want to bring back the former faa inspector david. were standing here on this map of the world. i want you to explain to me. as that plane was flying in the southern corridor, taking off from kul la lime pure, what kind of data was it sending back and what is inmarsat down analyzing? >> the information being sent when you talk about a ping, its a handshake, its im up h...

I want to confirm the breaking news. the first of several surveillance planes from perth, australia, has taken off. the weather has improved in western australia and they are going to look for any signs of the this missing malaysia airlines flight. they are looking at new satellite data that has just been released. rene marsh is joining us us now with the latest details. rene? >> wolf, today we learned that theres evidence of another ping we didnt know about before, a partial electronic transmis...

>> he said they were able to do something thats never been done before. they figured out the planes direction of travel by using a particular calculation to analyze the jets automated satellite data. a formman walked us through how they did it. >> what this search is coming down to is basic mathematic detective work. if you were to shout out to a canyon wall somewhere and wait for the echo to come back, it would take a certain amount of time. if the wall were further away, it would take longer. ...

>> here australia prime minister. >> everything is speculation until we have debris. >> william is here. when they start the search again, what is the priority when the search begins? >> the priority, as the defense minister said, they have to find some evidence or prove. the operations were suspended because of the high rain and low clouds. the battery of the black box is designed to only last a few more days. it has the answers people are looking for. the u.s. navy set a ping to the area. >> i...

Turn off course after 1:21 a.m. it flew for six hours and then after 8:11 but before 9:15, the plane went down. >> for more on this partial ping and what could have been the final minutes of this flight, steven wallace. keith, if i could begin with you. were getting these pings, it seems every week, new satellite information. this one is interesting because it comes -- came eight minutes after what we thought was the last ping at 8:11 a.m. how do you read this and what could it mean? >> from wha...

Locater theyre talking about, thats about five miles that they can get a range with the hydrophone. >> reporter: how often is that ping going off? >> that ping goes off about once a second, just a short chirp, and able to be picked up about by these hydrophones and the person can recognize that signal. so as long as theyre within five miles or so, theyll be able to detect it. >> reporter: this is just a different example of that. >> exactly. you can put them together in arrayses that you tow beh...

>> reporter: and how deep down can these go? >> these are pressure rated to go to the bottom of the ocean. so you can put things on a remotely operated vehicle that mayfly to the bottom or an autonomous vehicle. theyre both able to do that. >> reporter: this is a hydrophone. thats where you would start if youre looking for the ping. lets say it gets to the situation where the ping has stopped, the batteries have run out. then they just have s.o.n.a.r. how does s.o.n.a.r. work? >> this is much di...

From what ive gathered, will, it wont actually get to the search area in the ocean until the fifth of april. why so long? >> reporter: absolutely right. absolutely right. a week and a half from now. heres the deal. it arrived overnight, as you mentioned. this is a great piece of technology provided by the u.s. navy that can go down 20,000 feet and listen for the ping thats being sent out by the cockpit voice recorder and inflight data recorder. heres the problem -- those recorders have a battery...

They can also do that as the satellite data gets better and better, they will also be able to calculate where it might be likely that the plane impacted the water because it seems that the satellite data is getting better. they can calculate the fuel burn after the last ping. i think they can still certainly for the black boxes, even if they dont come back with any wreckage. >> even though it makes it much, much harder. miles obrien, first of all, let me say, long time fan. great to see you here...