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Anything, they pick up and go to the next. so they will be moving along in a very methodic pattern to try to eliminate where theyre not hearing sound. cross that out and go to the next area. and this is still a very time consuming process that will be hampered by weather. >> this it tpl, this is the pinkpink oiger locater, its listening for the ping to figure out what happened. but it can only move like 10, 15 square miles a day and were talking about an area that is like tens of thousands of na...

A significant breakthrough in ter terms of the more ocean we can cover based on their seeing debris, the more the -- the higher the probability we will be able to get a hydro phone in the water, once we identify the debris, and start listening for the ping. were still rupping o inrunning. were at 16 days, 30 days or so. every day there is a weaker battery ping going out. if we have another area to search for debris, and send more eyes out there, were going to do that and i think that that will h...

To take pictures of the indian ocean, but it my take days before the satellites are repositioned, and the navy isnding equipment right into the search zone. >> we are sending the ping locator down to aid in locating the black box. basically, this is highly sensitive equipment that is used, its towed behind at very slow speeds on a commercial vessel down to depths of about -- it can listen down to depths of about 20,000 feet, listening for the ping coming off the black box, which is going to be c...

>> within the first five days of searching, grim discoveries confirm the fate of those on board. bodies and pieces of the airplane including the vertical stabilizer, are found floating on the surface of the sea. but there are still more questions than answers about what downed the air bus 330. to answer them, investigators will need to locate the main fuselage. these brightly colored orange devices are commonly known as black boxes. >> those boxes will put out a ping signal or audible signal wit...

Visually, the sea state is high, you know, with waves breaking, ice -- excuse me, white caps, makes it difficult to relocate wreckage seen on a previous day. >> bob, let me bring you back in. again, unprecedented equipment being brought in and used to try to locate this plane or parts of it. we know, though, without the black box, there will be many holes here. whats happening now, you believe, to locate that, because were hearing information about, as you refer to it, as pings, if thats the rig...

Some path to get this aircraft down to a point where it code is appear. they dont say who they say it doesnt necessarily mean emergency. >> another question. how long can this plane fly at 12,000 feet because we know the last ping picked up by satellite happened what five or six hours later. >> right. right. thats another key factor to hang on to. remember this plane if it was an emergency still flu for a very long time apparently. so mitchell any idea how long they could fly 12,000 with the fue...

You have transponders and this other equipment. this is an unusual case. so i think what they have done is gone back to inmarsat and said look, were in a sticky situation here. is there any way at all we can try and locate something to do with that ping. and so i think its -- i dont want to oversimplify it. but if you look at the speed equals distance over time, distance equals speed time, time. they might have gone back and said right, lets look at the time the interrogation signal was sent out...

Back to the satellite. this is the first ping. there is a second ping through here, a third ping down here. this ping is getting closer to the satellite. this ping is flying along the line. the ping down here is definitely flying away from the satellite to get it down to australia and the last ping here, we dont know if it was the end of the flight or was there still another hour of fuel or 59 minutes, but no 9:11 a.m. ping. so inmarsat says if all this is true, there is no possible way that we ...

But there are large stretches of the ocean where its uncovered by radar because the radar equipment needs to be on land. >> within the first five days of searching, grim discoveries confirm the fate of those on board. bodies and pieces of the airplane including the vertical stabilizer, are found floating on the surface of the sea. but there are still more questions than answers about what downed the air bus 3350. to answer them, investigators will need to low kat the main fuselage. these brightl...

Located, we are sending it down. this is sensitive equipment. its towed behind at slow speeds on a commercial vessel, down to depths about -- it can listen down to about 20,000 feet, lynning for the ping coming up from the black box, which is going to be critical. >> another question for you, since we have you here, what can you tell us about todays search? >> right now, the p-8 and the p-3, are actually probably arrived on station right now. and are conducting the searches. but as of now, there...