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Search for those black boxes using those high-tech ping detecto detectors? >> yeah, if you have a place to look. they dont really have a good area to look right now. i understand the equipment that picks up the signal for the black box needs to be towed at a slow speed. generally to do a complete search, you have to whats called mow the grass. go back and forth over the area. that all takes time. thats a small commodity right now. >> i know. the battery in the black box will to start dieing in t...

Are you optimistic they can find it? >> no. im not optimistic they will find it in that timeframe. over time it might happen but it might be years. >> the life span of information? >> pretty much indefinite. >> it can go down to 20,000 feet. this is 10,000 feet of water we think. >> you did reporting on the pings getting and now half a ping as some are calling it. what is the latest on that? it does suggest that this is more of an art than a science, this investigation. >> it really is, wolf. ev...

Miss. >> fascinating interview, brett will have the full interview tonight. brett, thank you. well, were going to have another fox news alert. time running out to locate flight data recorders for missing malaysian airline plane. after waiting 17 days for confirmation that the boeing 777 crashed into southern indian ocean, searchers senior racing against time again to recover black boxes before the battery powered ping actually fades away. the latest information today. the search delayed today ...

>> so, there you heard the malaysian prime minister basically saying that they were able to determine the direction of travel, the speed of travel, that they had the last complete ping, the last handshake at about 0011 universal time, and then there was a partial ping. after that, nothing. >> we do know that there are no flights from perth to the search area today. theyre trying -- because of bad weather. theyre trying to narrow that search area. also learning that these are now technical and lo...

Flight data and voice recorder.r orter: and we dont have a lot of time, wolf. and thats exactly what we wanted to show here today. the difference between hydrophones and also taking a look at s.o.n.a.r. theyre different and do different things. i want to introduce you to james coleman, senior hydrographer. i keep saying that wrong. hes going to show you how this works. break it down for us and show how this hydrophone works. >> that under water locater beacon is sending out sound, these pings. a...

My loved ones? and until and unless they find the plane, theres no answer to that. >> jim clancy. >> reporter: christine? >> thank you so much, jim. >> and just when search teams seemed so close to finding flight 370, a storm rolled into the south indian ocean, gale force winds driving rain, low clouds, all making it much too dangerous to fly. ships had to pull back out of the region. as soon as things clear, pilots will be heading back to the area where it is believed that the 239 people on boa...

Square nautical miles a day. >> and its looking to pick up those pings, correct? >> correct. these will not pick up the pings. thats the next thing. theyre going to send in something to try to find the ping. theyve gotten days. >> then this guy goes, or one like this. >> if they dont find the ping, theyre going to have to create a search area where they highly likely think it is and then they start using these to kind of mow the lawn. >> good way to look at it. thanks for bringing this in. incre...

Ocean. you use a hydrophone just like you would a microphone to be able to listen to it under water. >> this has to be how close to that ping? >> about five miles. >> so thats a widespread area youre talking about. so thats the hydrophone. this is what you start with when you still have the ping for a few more days. the other option is the sonar, what they would go to second. and these are two options that are sonar examples. >> right. the hydro is listening for the ping. this going to emit soun...

The guy said good night. when it went down to 12,000 feet. i dont know how it could do that and then go back up to cruising altitude. there are so many unknown things here. the focus will go back to kuala lumpur and what were you guys doing. martha: also the searches for the black boxes. time is running out in terms of the ping signal and it may have some answers as to what happened in the cockpit. >> it sure may. certainly what happened with the airplane. you cant rule out a catastrophic failur...

Turn it off. if you had it on this program, it could either be programmed to follow the flight management system or it could follow manual inputs from the pilots. >> the autopilot does not change the altitude level. it goes constant altitude. >> the autopilot will change the altitude if you request it to change the altitude. >> heres a question for you, peter. could someone hack the system and give a false ping to throw the investigation off, maybe just invert the signal? >> boy, i think thats g...