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But again, we dont know what happened. >> okay. jeff. jay asks would the plane have had enough fuel to make the drop, climb, and still have enough fuel to reach the pinger location? >> to go down low, this is the idea that over the peninsula it went down to 4,000 or 5,000 feet. that would be a very fuel intensive maneuver. maybe it wouldnt have had enough. >> nicholas says the 777 is designed to glide when it runs out of fuel. i dont know what that means. >> after it runs out of fuel it will try...

[ inaudible ] -- perth released a statement this morning, in which he said the "ocean shield" with the american pinger towed locator is still trying to detect signals, but no mention of the british vessel, the "hms echo" that we also know is in the area. and thats perhaps interesting. we were on a website called mari marinetraffic.com, which tracks marine vessels, and showed as of three hours ago, the "ocean shield" had moved out of the search field that they are looking at for this pinger. it m...

Layperson it sounds like a man made noise. do you share the optimism? >> i do not share the optimism. >> all right. explain why. >> well, there is a bunch of problems. one is that the sheer unlikelihood that they would find something on the first try. normally the way you would do it is you find the floating debris and you track it backwards to find the point of entry and then you search on the bottom of the ocean. here we just -- we were running out of time. we thought, well, the pinger is abou...

>> welcome back to our special coverage. searchers are race to find more clues this hour to find the missing airliner. 30 crew members are aboard the ocean shield right now. it is towing a pinger locator that has already found four pings. time is running out to get as much information as searchers can before the pings stop all together. i want to bring in brian todd in washington and his unique work. >> the pinger locator. on board the ocean shield from phoenix international. control rooms on bo...

His words, very confident, the signals that have been detected are, indeed, from the planes two black boxes. he says the challenge is to get as much information as possible before the signals end. investigators say a fifth ping is probably not from the plane. it was picked up thursday by a device dropped in the ocean from an airline before earlier signals were detected by a u.s. pinger locator towed by an australian ship. theres been no letup in the search for debris from the plane. looking at t...

Reduced. thats why angus houston wants to try to get as many pings as possible. >> as many pings as possible because number one the battery life, the battery is weakening every single minute. thats important to find it as soon as possible. >> the battery life is weakening. he doesnt have a second chance. once the pinger has died, thats it. so why not spend the time getting as many assets in the water. you have the buoys, the ships, the tow ping locate canner. all of these things searching now wh...

We are getting into our 5th week now. we have no tangible clues and no debris. this is on pace to be the most expensive search in history. the pinger now is dead or dying. within the next few days if we dont have something, we wont have thig. the prime minister is trying to bo boltster optimism. the families are complain that go they havent been given information. they are trying to keep peoples hopes up. do you agree with nothing to show for it? >> they have four separate in ta stances where th...

And it was very hard to hear. and we were like maybe 1,000, 2,000 feet away and even when i was in the navy, i was many times looking for black boxes, stuff like that t. it is really, really hard to trust this kind of information because you can have a problem, something around making the same noise and its very difficult. >> the same noise that is consistent with a black box over a period of time from a number of different times. apparently there have been at least four confirmed by the austral...

Pings or the small short ones that are five minutes and seven minutes and say lets focus on just the ones that we know are within the broadcast area of that box, now, the only one thats really credible as far as that to get distinguishing information is the two-hour ping they got at first. that would indicate that tpl had been towed through the broadcast range of where the pinger is. >> that gives the you the best idea? >> absolutely. >> you are buying the prime ministers confidence? >> if we di...

Intact airplane. something like at least the tail and the wings. the tail being important because thats where the black boxes are. >> youre confident theyre right -- that fifth ping had nothing to do with the plane, right? >> i wouldnt say confident on that. again, im hopeful. it is the right signal. frequency. and the pulse rate is -- makes me very hopeful that, indeed, its a pinger from the black boxes. >> the first four pings that were detected, one lasting for about two hours, one for 15 min...