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Amount of information. it records 25 hours of data. the whole goal here now is to find that and it has a bit of a pinger. that pinger lasts about, we have about 19 more days of battery power that will send off that ping. its not like a ping you can hear with your ear. this is something thats a very low frequency. it pings about once every second or so. that pinger is picked up by akousic equipment that the navy will drop in the water. were talking about depths of water thats two plus miles deep....

Out on the ping in about 13 more days. the next to you. i dont know if this is your wheel house. it would be for an oceanographer. how far away can the wreckage drift away and to which direction since it has been more than ten days? >> well, an oceanographer can answer exactly, but i understand drift calculations and essentially. they would just calculate the experts and oceanographer would look at as the previous guest has on. how much drift they had based on the normal location. these are aver...

Flying planes. thanks, doug. >> thanks, guys. >> we want to take a look at the anatomy of a black box. they are built to withstand crashes and can withstand impact. the biggest issue now is the battery life of the black box. the batteries are designed to last 30 days. since we are already on day 12, there are just 18 days left to find the black box. if we take a look back, we can see the underwater locator beacon. as soon as the flight recorder hits the water it begins emitting a ping once a sec...

Job. the people with lights are looking out into the water. thats a difficult, difficult job. the planes flying over have to deal with the same thing especially since the images are somewhat beneath the water. when you talk about going beneath the surfaces, when you talk about a ping from the signal, it may be coming up somewhere but the distance from the bottom to the surface may eat up all of the layers of the pings. simple truth is, the pinger helps you when youre already on top of it, when y...

Bottom portion of the ark. the connection of the last radar connection with the ping of the satellite. if you look at the fuel time left. if the plane went straight down and took an hour for each time period moving an hour forward, you came to the last point. thats where they would have ran out of fuel. thats where they came to the region or assuming how they honed down on that search area. one of the things people have been talking about is something called a gyre. a lot of people say, is the p...

Debris field before -- rather than try to find a ping. in fact, with air transi looked back at some of the maps. it looks like they went right over the top of the wreck site with some of the listening equipment and never heard the pingers on air france. >> thats fascinating. david gallo, appreciate you being on. ron brown as well. you can find more on the store at cnn.com. just ahead our panel of pilots drills down on the competing theories right now. no one on board survived when swiss air flig...

We know also the plane came back over the malaysian peninsula. that is the last known ping, if you like. we dont know what happened after there. the two arcs, one arc goes that way. they no longer believe that is the operative one. >> one of the reasons from that is they had reporting from every country except ukraine, nobody had any sense of anything coming into their airspace. >> and the one is bengal searched by the interian forces and nothing has been found. the main focus of attention has b...

Time, obviously remains of the essence, not only for the families, but theres a limited window in how long the locator beacons work on the plane. in the event of a catastrophe like this, they have a months window, while those beacons continue to ping. after that, the job becomes considerably, as youd imagine, harder. >> and if you learn anything from the air france flight which crashed in 2009, flight 447, finding the debris is really just the first initial step, the first step in what could be ...

Though the australians, they know something is there. they know something of reasonable size, as was said at one point, 78 feet in size, with smaller objects around it. from there, youre going to have to figure out where these black boxes are. i would assume given the tidal surges and the rest, maybe sonar would pick it up, if you knew a general vicinity, or no? >> i would assume so. heres the problem and im still learning about this because im not a pilot. those black boxes may or may not actua...

Jimmy stuart was on board with his art collection and its still under there. but all of a sudden everybody is an expert. i watch shows im watching guys go from transponder to ping to it acar. you know, thats the thing about our world now. we are immediate experts on stuff. this is the same stuff with global warming. i got guys calming into my show and sounding like they cant fog a mirror and telling me how the mirror is going to flop. we dont know anything. we are guessing. the plane is gone. we...