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No reason to think that they wont be able to find them. and as soon as the weather permits they can get those pinger locators working again as well. i think they will. >> do you find there is greater relevancy of this new investigation into airasia indonesia or is this a peripheral element as crews continue to search for the victims and the wreckage? >> no, i think this is probably the tip of the iceberg of what were going to find. our federal aviation administration actually grades foreign coun...

But most of the rainfall should be the heaviest confined just down the south which is good news. the winds are kicking up and coming in from the northwest and thats at that rob. notice our rain heavier to the south but still in our search zone and again when we look at the winds, as they are parallel this will give fits to dive crews. its the safety of getting them in and out of the water. once they are down 30 or 40 feet the water is a little calmer. but its a problem for the vessels that may w...

Mountain floor that has deep crevasses that causes the force in the ocean to push debris. that debris is not going to move much at all. in fact it probably wont so they have to find that. also consider the channel shallow. this is good news for the pinger locators. it doesnt have to work and bounce off different frequencies or different walls and crevasses as mentioned and they should get a handle on it. quickly for you, this is the picture out of the c130 aircraft that shows you the rainfall an...

Search it was too dangerous to get diver teams in and out of the water and once theyre in the water and theyre down 25 30 feet thats fine. its stashlized and not only is the java sea shallow and joe mentioned it would be easier to retrieve the craft, but there is sediment but the seas yesterday were up and down. the vessels were not fighting seas coming in from one direction. because they were slow moving it sloshes the water and when that happens you just cant tow the pinger locators you cant t...

Ago. >> as we made clear were ready to help in any way we can. weve assisted in these searches before unfortunately so we have some experience at this. as you may recall with malaysia flight 370 we provided towed pinger locators underwater passive sonar devices used to help detect the pinging of the black boxes. those could be brought in. again, weve got no request for that right now but were preparing ourselves for the eventuality they could be used and we have side scan sonar, which we also us...

Narrow it down, put the pinger locators in the water, find the pinger noise, which is the easiest search to do the first search then you can start doing the side scan sonar, pick up the data of the debris field and then map that and go get some high resolution pictures and then send your salvage divers down. its shallow enough there that they can use divers to recover black boxes. so thats a much faster easier operation than using rovs. but when they start pulling the debris up theyll be using p...

Vice president and group manager at teledine marine systems which makes some of the pinger locators that have been used in this search for the flight. also mary schiavo, aviation analyst and former inspector general for the u.s. transportation department. thomas, i want to start with you. first, are you surprised about this latest news that the pings didnt come from the black boxes? >> no. i mean, that was always a possibility. i think we talked about this over the last couple of months, that th...

The new ones only work about 80% of the time. so theres a lot of reasons why we might not hear the signal. the pinger only -- you have to be within a mile undert water. thats why theyve had such a hard time finding it. this, instantaneously, the new ones, anywhere in the world can be detected by the satellite. the older ones you have you to triangulate in. it takes longer. it would be nice to know from the airline if they were carrying the older one or the n newer, more sophisticated ones. >> we...

They first sent down the auv, they have narrowed the area down to where they believe they can cover it in a matter of a couple of weeks. but if they do not find something there, then youre looking at plan b. theyre not going to rush into plan b. theyre going to go away and think well, first of all, do we now have to search the arc between the 6 1/2 ping and the 6 ping? thats 300 miles long and 30 miles wide. so thats going to be a major undertaking. theyre going have to regroup, as they did with...

Hes definitely trying to manage expectations but everyone who has been involved in the search and those following closely, you guys have been analyzing it wondering, when is it time to go under water and to call off the search. >> when you go back and recap all of the data, the inmarsat data, all of the things that were involved to bring us to this point, having the towed pinger locators bring up those signals at that very point of approximately where the seventh ping was and now one of the sign...