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Same area or at the same time. >> isnt it curious that two pingers, the frequency to be 3.3 on both of them? >> well, i wont get in to that because basically the analysis on that i dont think has revealed anything unusual. i might ask mr. levy if he has any information on that. no. okay. >> do you plan to move more pinger locate canners in the area to cover more territory? >> no, we dont. because as i have said previously, one of the important things about this sort of search is the need for com...

Of the pinger batteries is 30 d days and it is now 33 days since the aircraft went missing it is important that we gather as much information to fix the possible location of the aircraft while the pingers are still transmitting. and further promising information, we have received the results of the data analysis conducted on the signals detected by ocean shield on the first two occasions. this data analysis was conducted by the australian joint acoustic analysis center based at hmas albatross in...

Detections noticeably weaker than the signals detected on saturday. and he says thats most likely because the batteries on the black box pinger likely to expire. they have a shelf life of 30 day. we are now on day 33. he said the priority right now is for the australian vessel, the ocean shield, to continue combing those waters, with the american towed ping locator to try and get more information to narrow down that potential search field so they then can deploy the bluefin 21, the u.s.-provided...

Is optimistic well find what is left of the aircraft in the not too instant future and talked about deploying the autonomous underwater vehicle, once they exhausted all possibilities on the future, which again he doesnt believe is very far off. he is also very careful to warn the signals were weak and couldnt say whether or not both black boxes wer e es were worki listen. >> this assessment was, there were two pingers there. this has not been confirmed in the further detections we picked up. now...

But we can find it. and im very confident. i dont think the silt issue is an issue, you know. ive -- like i said, ive seen debris fields from the thresher and the scorpion where they drop nuclear reactors. so yes, the very, very heavy objects will go into the bottom to some degree. but engines, for example, from the turkish phantom 5 were sitting right on the surface of the ocean. you couldnt have had a heavier object hit a soft bunch of mud. so i dont think this thing is buried. certainly the f...

Tuesday. once for about five minutes and then again for seven. ocean shield has now picked up a total of four pings in five days all near the arc where the plane made its last satellite connection. >> im now optimistic that we will find the aircraft or what is left of the aircraft in the not too distant future. >> reporter: the detections boosted optimism, but crews are still listening for even more to narrow the search area and theyre on borrowed time. >> guaranteed shelf life of the pinger bat...

Welcome back to "the lead." im jake tapper. the world lead is a major new lead in the search for malaysia airlines flight. new pinger sn eer signals picke the ocean shield ship, the australian ship, towing a u.s. naval pinger locator. the same ship picked up signals saturday. nose two signals and two from overnight, all four within a 17-mile area. in about two weeks weve gone from overall search area the size of alaska, the biggest state in the country, to one the size of south carolina, the 40t...

Underway. we dont know if there are new developments, though, beyond the refining the search area. we anticipate some sort of announcement being made. we will bring it to you live. we want to bring in our panel. author of why planes crash, investigator fights for safe skies and doing calculations on the search. boeing trip 777 captain and miles obrien, former department of transportation inspector who represents accident victims and their families. richard, lets start with you. you were with me ...

>> what were picking up is a great lead. >> reporter: officials say the sounds detected were not of natural origin and likely from a manmade device. but scouring the sediment at the bottom of the ocean will prove difficult. >> the silt on the bottom will complicate that search. >> reporter: todays search efforts intensifying as resources comb the shrinking search area, roughly the size of south carolina. so far, the debris found has not been linked to flight 370. adding to the urgency, the dying...

Looked to me like a photo opportunity and not much more than that. and apparently the data is bearing that out now. if they really did hear pings, it might have been the pinger that they had in the raft with them to test the device, which a lot of people would tell you you never do. that is not the protocol. so i think there is a lot of pressure, especially given the confusion and the apparent ineptitude we witnessed in malaysia, and the angst among the chinese people to prove they were doing so...