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Area here in the south indian ocean to try to find debris from flight 370. malaysian authorities say the underwater drone should finish searching the ocean floor in a week. >> theres been no sign or sounds from the pinger. it leads them to believe the flight recorder batteries have run out. we want to bring in airlineratings.com and a former fbi agent. thank you for being with us. the sub is giving good views of the seabed. listen to what he had to say. >> i can confirm the bluefin-21 captured c...

The tail of the flight or on the ceiling of business class? and when a plane is trying to land on the sea, can elt be activated? are you surprised the families have so many questions about the elt specifically? >> thats a product of the fact that we have so many unknowns. the elt could be in a couple of different places on the airplane. one thing it is going to do as soon as the plane goes in the water and sinks it will stop transmitting because it cant transmit through the water itself. >> okay...

What when, where or how. what they are trying to gauge from that is why do the authorities, why are they so confident? if you read back again, when they did find these or heard these pings, they said it was consistent with the black box or flight data recorder. so they want to know upon what basis can they be confident that it is a pinger from a triple seven black box. >> >> the final of the questions on protocol, we want mh-370s logbook. we want the voice recorder and require the atc audio. i t...

And when a plane is trying to land can elt be activated. are you surprised the families have so many questions about the elt specifically? >> thats a product of the fact we have so many unknowns. the elt could be in a couple of different places on the airplane. one thing it is going to do as soon as the plane goes in the water and sinks it will stop transmitting because it cant transmit through the water itself. >> okay. richard, this is for you. the next seven of the familys questions are on th...

Boeing 777 or even the exact black box mounted on mh-370. do we know that boeing sent a signal to compare with the pinger? >> no, we didnt know who sent what when, where or how. what they are trying to gauge from that is why do the authorities, why are they so confident? if you read back again, when they did find these or heard these pings, they said it was consistent with the black box or flight data recorder. so they want to know upon what basis can they be confident that it is a pinger from a...

Fascinated with about this, tom, is the fact that, you know, there is no gps under water. i figure you automatically knew. but it doesnt work that way, does it? >> no, not at all. in fact, were using a reasonable amount of sonar to see where we are. in we find a point that is, for instance, suppose we were down at the bottom the indian ocean, and found the black box, first thing wed do is drop a pinger on it and come back to it. that pinger will use a beam and we have a receiver so we can come b...

Radar information? >> possibly. im surprised we havent heard more from them. if youre within 160, maybe even 200 miles from land, a civilian or possibly military radar should be able to pick you up at that range. if youre farther out than that, its not likely that the air traffic control radar will pick you up. but the difference between vietnamese and malaysian air space is more of an administrative line than it is a technical line in the sand. >> john, i want to ask you about the many being eq...

Deep and did what it was supposed to do and came back up. i dont know if that is a problem. it is called working right there. the prime minister tony abbott said they will exhaust everything there, exhaust everything they need to do as long as they need to take for the bluefin to cover this area. how long do you think that will take? >> you first have to know how big the area is. the side scan can see 1,000 feet to either side and if it is moving four, five miles an hour, you are going to be map...

Because it did what it was supposed to document it went too deep and did what it was supposed to do and came back up. i dont know if that is a problem. it is called working right there. the prime minister tony abbott said they will exhaust everything there, exhaust everything they need to do as long as they need to take for the bluefin to cover this area. how long do you think that will take? >> you first have to know how big the area is. the side scan can see 1,000 feet to either side and if it...

Be on top of it? that doesnt tell us a thing? >> absolutely. >> thats what i saw. let me show you this. i said wow this boat, this ocean shield essentially came to a stop, and thats great news. if it came to a stop then maybe this blue fin found something. here is australia. here is the indian ocean. that, brooke, that dot is what they have it down to right now. that is it. thats about 49 to 50 square miles here in that polygone. but something else, we know that as the pinger went across, it fou...