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Front. the one in the rear is saltwater activated. those two. theres also eprib. emergency indicator radio bye cons, located on board the aircraft. there could be as many as 10 of those on board. >> really? locator beacons. >> those are floater locator beacons. eribs what theyre called and puts out the same sound. >> the same as the black box frequency? >> no. thats the pinger in the water and this floats on top of the water. >> no trace or sign? >> no. that would indicate there is no raft deplo...

On that. in one case raised flags it might not have been the black box. the australians said thats understandable, we still think its legitimate. there certainly is concern about that fact. >> youve seen those reports? >> right. ive seen them. i think it goes back to and what the australians are what else could it be they heard that often in that spot in the general frequency range? they cant determine it is from any other company or, you know, group of people trying to do something on the botto...

Malaysia will concur, or theoretically, i imagine they would concur. if the first efforts dont pan out then i think they will explore all the efforts of the pings and then fan out a little more. because remember we hear the information about the acoustic tricks, three miles from the pings, i think they will do everything before they exhaust plan b. >> why not have more bluefins in the water? >> to protect -- the plan, to me, you have to have the right technology. they do, bluefin-21, the team th...

So i think that australia will make a recommendation and malaysia will concur or disagree. but if the first efforts dont pan out i think they will explore the areas of the pings and fan out more. we heard the information about the acoustic tricks of the ocean that some of the signals can travel further than the three miles from the ping. i think they will exhaust all the pings before going to plan "b." >> im getting tweets about this. why not have more bluefins in the water? >> the plan to me --...

Up on that yet. we kind of expected it to be done by now given the guidance we were given by angus houston, but no sign of it ending yet, wolf. >> michael holmes in perth, well obviously stay in close touch with you. if you get some more information, let us know right away. lets bring back our panel, and our law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes. peter, theyre suggesting they may have to expand the search area if the bluefin 21 keeps going down, comes up with nothing of substance, other than nice...

Auv, right team, a very talented team and the right plan. the plan they have chosen is they have said okay. we have the pinger. thats the spot. we are going to throw the dart in to the bulls eye close to it. no need to go to a broad area and search using multiple vehicles where you need more people and support to pull that off. it may be plan b but it is too soon in the process to think of that yet. >> thats something houston said when he first announced they were going down. angus houston, the ...

Miles and telling a pinger locater two and a half miles down, you have to be within a couple of miles in order to locate it. the question is the wreck near the pinger locater? certainly the box is there. so yeah, i think we are within a couple of miles, the 2 1/2 hour transmission they received is seems like good news in terms of trying to locate this thing. >> lets talk about flight 447, a similar air incident. look at two pictures from air france 447. this is a look at the debris field. this i...

That i really cant see any other options. >> so do you think theyre searching in the right area, jules? >> well, if they heard the pinger, i mean, the answer is yes. i mean, i spent a bit of time looking into the specifications of the manufacturer of the pinger. and they say well, you can hear us within two miles. and we go to the manufacturer of the towed pinger locater, you realize youre within two miles of that. you have to be within a couple of miles of the pinger to recognize it. is it near...

We can reverse engineer and find out what happened. as with the titanic, the wreck will have the last word. >> jean casarez, new york. >> all right, jean, we appreciate it. 102 years ago later, what happened to the titanic still fast natuominatature -- fast na people worldwide. he was part of the team that found the titanic at the bottom of the atlantic. thank you for joining us, do you think the search is being done in the right manner? >> thank you for inviting me first, don, yes, i think so. ...

A marathon pace, its going to be long, slower and there may be a much different equipment set thats brought in. >> mike deane, adiplomatic man, rob. suggesting, australia, weve got tools, ask us and well bring them to you. what do you think? >> i think if it goes beyond this phase, i think if these potential pinger locations pan out to be inaccurate or nonexistent, then the next phase is more broad scale search along the southern end of the original calculated aircraft track. so that would mean ...