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Steps are so crucial to making the most out of these detections. theyve got to move fast to find those signals again and with the batteries in the black box pinger almost dead, they certainly dont have much time. it had a tough job from the get-go. no wreckage from the plane. searching in waters so rough and so deep. but the towed pinger locator has detected signals in the indian ocean consistent with pings from black boxes. >> this would be called miraculous. this has come down from hundreds an...

Beneath the pings, the pings are so exciting because theyre the right frequency, 37.5, theyre the right frequency of pinging noises, and the rate at which the ping comes is about once every second, and thats right. the ocean shield mentioned that it had heard not one but two, which would suggest there are two pingers, one on the flight data recorder, and one on the flight voice recorder. and they dont travel very far, means they were at some point right on top of or nearly on top of whatever was...

They deploy that pinger locater in a certain area, they tow it back and forth, long hauls. miles at a time, hours at a time back and forth and it can narrow the search area, because it may be a able to detect the pings. the pinger locater can go to depths as low as 20,000 depths, and it can detect the pinger from up to two miles away and it can detect the pingers signal when the signal is fading, and ch is a key capability -- which is a key capability now that we are now at this lace in the sear...

Listening, how many submersibles might it take to cover the distance that might incorporate? >> well, a search like this, i think its a matter of tenacity and persistence. every piece of data you collect helps narrow the search area, helps move the solution forward. >> why is the range so small? im not clear on why these -- look, perhaps its not. perhaps thats an unfair question. it just seems to me this two-hour radius for a pinger when youre obviously looking for them in oceans oftentimes does...

Side of the boat. the chinese was using that kit. thats a legitimate part of the device. but its designed to look at things in shallow water primarily. to look at things in deep water, you want to be in the deep water. thats why the u.s. navy is using the toe fish. >> but is this going to give you the depth you want and the accuracy you want? >> weve looked that the very carefully. doing calculations over the weekend. looking at the response from the chinese and the depth of the water, we think ...

Inside the boat. is that a possibility? >> it could be. we know that the other pinger is not an aviation pinger. its at the same frequency, 35.7 kilohertz. its one that we manufacture. its used to put something in the ocean and set a time that says dont start going off for five days from now and then i can find what i put in the ocean. the chinese appears to be testing the device and working okay. so if theyre careful it would be fine to have it in the boat if you keep it dry when using it in th...

Or vice versa, unless something really, really unknown has occurred in an acoustic sense. and i dont think theres any reason to believe that. the pinger types are different, in terms of the locators. thats one of the reasons that people are so suspicious of the chinese location, because they were using this type of pinger, which even the manufacturer has said that this is not necessarily being used in the way that it wasme meant to be used. this is the second set of pinging being detected by thi...

Wiggle room to find and listen for the pinger, and then hone in on the pinger, they can hopefully then start to identify debris field, and then search for this all-important black box. the cockpit voice recorder is one box, and the flight da ta recorder is like this. and on the flight data recorder, it can record 1,000 parameters of flight. if they can recover this, and even if it had been sitting in salt water for the better part of a month or even longer, years, the neshgs ttsb says the get th...

Married eight times, by the way, and he worked for 90 years, give or take a decade or two when his popularity waned a bit. but he was still working and still irreplaceable. rooney was 93. thanks for watching, everyone. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. its being called the most promising lead yet. a signal perhaps emanating from flight 370s black boxes but the big question is will the ship be able to relocate the signal and is it the missing plane? im jake tapper. this is "the lead...

Boxes? >> well, given the cost of what were trying to do is and the efficiency of making sure you have a good use of your resources, spending more time over top of a potential target has no downside whatsoever. the pinger has a lifetime. youre looking for that sound t. bluefin 21 doesnt have panger detector on it. once you put that asset in the water, youre not using the pinger anymore, youre using the debris field as what youre looking for. nair roeing the search area tighter will be more effic...