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Promising lead yet in the search for flight 370 as crews detect new underwater signals they say could be coming from the planes black boxes. im jon scott and patti ann browne, welcome to you. patti ann: thanks, jon. great to be here. the search ship, ocean shield, made the latest discovery while towing a u.s. navy ping locator. it is roughly 900 miles northeast where a chinese ship picked up a similar ping a day earlier. the first detection was tell approximately two hours and 20 minutes. the sh...

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Years to do that. so if its there, flight 370 could be as much as 15,000 feet below the ocean surface, nearly 3 miles down. in that context, ian, finding the black box seems next to impossible, right, especially if the ping sound goes out. >> its pretty tough, alex. and that ping is probably way towards the end of its life. another interesting comment that was made this week by oceanographers here is that we probably know less about the ocean floor than we do about the moon, especially at that k...

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Australian ship detected a second ping today in the indian ocean. the vessel picked up noise consistent with that of a black box and held contact for a full 13 minutes. clearly this is the most promising lead and probably in the search so far, its the -- its probably the best information that we have had. >> the pings are in a northern part of the search zone with waters up to 15,000 feet deep. remember, black boxes have an average shelf life of 30 days give or take a few and today marks day 31 ...

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