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U.s. will provide the underwater listening devices that help detect a planes ping, as you heard there. help us under, would these hydrophones be useful if you dont have a specific debris field yet? >> well, no, its very difficult because, as you mentioned, its about two miles is about your limit. one to three, if you will, for the listening. when they zero in or narrow down, rather, the debris field so they can then calculate what the winds and waves have done to the debris and take it back to t...

Missing? >> i think the general public doesnt realize it. 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, investiga...

It says, why is there no satellite footage showing this plane from the time it disappeared just like there is alleged debris? would the plane show up on satellite images during the time it was in the air? >> thats a great question. i wanted to divert the question a little bit. weve been reporting some very significant news, which is a lot of the people on the panel here with me have been pining all week for some particularly significant piece of data, which we finally got. and its got a lot of v...

The crews in the skies and the seas and testing the limits of the technology. joining me now here is technology analyst brett larson. and brett, there is a whole host of countries and host of assets in the ocean, and the air and indeed in space with the satellites, but the malaysians are asking for specific thengs from the u.s., and particularly advanced technology and what are they asking for and why? >> well, one of the things they are asking for from us is a hydrophone which is a microphone w...

Locater system and can pick up signals from two miles away. scientist have 30 or 50 days before the beacon battery dies and ping or no ping, the a uv can dive three miles under water and preprogrammed to map the sea floor using side scan sonar. and images can be taken with cameras and if plane wreckage is found, recover begins with the 6,000. it is equipped with thrusters and cameras and lights and robotec arms. it has heavier items like the engines and high recovery lines lifted from the ship. ...

Time window. they are working against time. as people point out that the clock is ticking, were 15 days into it. we have 15 days left to pick up the ping from the black boxes. and you have weather, which they are also going into a seasonal change. >> and also over time, floating objects could sink. >> theres a large possibility it could be ocean junk, for lack of a better word. unfortunately we wont know that until we have eyes at sea that are going to pick this up and identify it and let us kno...

A satellite overhead. they were able to determine these arcs that youve seen. this one ping has given us these two big arcs that have really been the underpinning of everything weve been talking about all week. very significant. so significant that many of us said wait, there were seven pings. what about the other six? what can we learn from them? finally today, we got some information straight from the horses mouth. straight from a company based in great britain. what they said was this -- each...

Alleged debris? would the plane show up on satellite images during the time it was in the air? >> thats a great question. i wanted to divert the question a little bit. weve been reporting some very significant news, which is a lot of the people on the panel here with me have been pining all week for some particularly significant piece of data, which we finally got. and its got a lot of value. if you would allow me to explain it a little bit, it might be worth your while. >> okay. youre here. >> ...

Its too late. heres exactly what that ping sounds like. [ pinging ] rosa flores joins me now. e my reaction, it sounds so quiet and low. i was imagining something louder, higher pitched, easier to hear. the equipment, i suppose, is attuned to listen exactly for that. >> we talked to a company called phoenix international and they told us theres a lot of ways for you to find an aircraft, but a tpl is usually whats used and it does what the name says. so its a piece of equipment that is equipped w...

Electrical cables and mechanical cables. im not discounting it, but it gives me hope they will find something down there. we have had two hits on what appears to be similar. >> david, just to be clear, at a minimum, it gives greater specificity in a greater search area? >> it would in my mind, yeah. >> rick, you think, though, this piece of debris, you think it may be too big to get excited about? some 73 feet by over 40 feet? >> i didnt really comment on the size. there was another comment earl...