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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 critical in helping out in the investigation. its a difficult task. the indian ocean is a very large area, and we were trying to follow -- you know, we go to every lead thats out there in these identified search areas. were dedicated to the mission and well keep going as long as were needed out there. >> well word that the plane dropped to 12,000 fee...

Images. and another potential break in the search, a visual spotter on an australian plane reported seeing several small objects including a wooden pallet floating in the search area. all these new clues catching the attention of nasa who are now training their space assets to this particular section of ocean. and cnn has just been given a demo of the black box ping that searchers are desperately hoping to hear. listen to this. [ clicking ] even the best quip cant solve the problems that the wea...

Course, scouring the indian ocean and investigators are desperately waiting to hear that ping, more like a click from the flight recorders. the noise designed, as we said, to help locate a planes location. again, heres what it sounds like. >> it almost sounds minute to us as we listen to it. like it would be very easy to miss it if you were near it. the thing is, as the battery runs out, that sound is going to fade here and were looking at possibly april 6th in just about 14 days at this point b...

Point and even a gentle current can move any of that debris hundreds of miles in just a day. >> of course, time is of the essence. they now more than halfway through their estimated battery life for these flight recorders. listening for the ping. to give you an example of what searchers are hoping to hear, here it is. >> yeah, that is the noise that everybody so desperately wants to hear. you have to be within two nautical miles to detect it. todays search area is nearly 23,000 square miles. >> ...

Range. these altitude -- sudden altitude changes, i have no idea of the accuracy of that. i would hope that that data is presented to the best radar experts. and i know we sent them over there to assist with this investigation. one more thing, don. one piece of evidence that i -- i think most of us put a lot of stock in were those continuous ping handshakes from the inmarsat satellite. that resulted in those two arcs. this would seem to send that out the window. >> miles obrien, youve heard just...

And grace was confronted with an unfamiliar sound. >> she heard a ping and then she felt her husbands legs kind of like quivering on her legs. >> and then grace heard a similar sound and probably did not realize it but the sound was the bullet hitting her head. >> against all odds, the elderly woman regained consciousness hours later. someone had re-entered the house. >> grace didnt move. she was half in shock and half just lying still, hoping they would go away. she could tell her husband was m...

To be on its way at this moment to u.s. authorities also that are involved in the searching. obviously, this is more good news. you know, if theres more satellite images perhaps showing some debris, this gives them more hope that perhaps theyre searching in the right area, which is a big, big relief because, as you know, this has been going on for more than two weeks now and nothing much has been found. >> australian officials say today that mostly its a visual search, but, of course, these team...

Thats it. thats all we know. we do know where 68 went. it would have pinged here, here, here, here, here, and here. lets put those on the map. well show you what it looks like. the first ping would look like this. right there. about an hour from when they would have merged. another hour later. another hour later. and another hour later. on up, on up, on up, on up. and up here into almost the area here. take a look at this line, though. this is the blue line. this would have been 68s last locatio...

Currents to make sure that the planes can get back to where that debris would be. but they havent been able to. partially its visibility very difficult, partially there are big currents there, its a big stretch of walter and theyre having real difficulty. >> in perth, australia, andrew stevens, thanks very much and good night. ultimately nothing will be more important in this investigation than this noise. [ pinking sounds ] surprisingly soft but that is the ping from the planes black boxes whic...

Cant see it anywhere. heads to a different point over here. in the meantime a different plane has left singapore flying to that same waypoint right here. the two planes fly in tandem, one on top of the other or slightly behind. very close to make only one ping on the radar. one blob on the radar as it leaves here and flies all the way up here. we dont see mh-370 because were getting pings or squawks back from singapore flight 68. is it crazy? yes. is it possible? absolutely. the planes get under...