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Appreciate that. you have questions about the search for missing flight 370. todays news of a possible signal hard by a chinese ship. har to help us, mr. thomp, airlinesratings.com. mary schiavo representing families of airline disaster. lets tackle some of these questions. from james, if the pinger locator gets a hit, how long does it take to deploy the rest of the technology needed to find mh-370? miss ski ychiavschiavo? >> it depends how long it takes to get the ship there and get other pinge...

Had it been set to chirp rather than pure pulse so it would be more easily identifiable -- >> listen. >> -- it would sound like this. thats very similar to what you had been playing for days as the example. and its like -- its like a combination lock. you can set the chirp to go from one frequency to another. in fact, you can set it one way for one aircraft pinger and another way for another aircrafts pinger. >> so if youre hearing either the tone or the pulse, then you know -- and those bursts,...

Importance of just how significant this ping is. >> rob, what should we read into the new satellite information? >> you know, i was very encouraged to hear him talk about the fact that they have reinforced their confidence in the search area overall and now theyre honing into different areas within that. and within that again now we have this one and possibly two acoustic leads, underwater leads. so overall a very promising picture. although there lab lot of ships and a lot of aircraft out there...

Been used four times in major commercial air crashes. in 2009, it passed right over the black box from air france flight in the atlantic. they failed to find the pinger the manufacturer said because the pinger had broken off from the black box, it may have been damaged. but in three other cases, success. 1996 bergen air crash in the caribbean and the 2007 crash off indonesia. the black boxes were found but the search areas were relatively small. malaysia air is the fifth attempt and still a long...

Practicing. >> does that make a difference to you, les? >> its a good point. but even if he was doing that he might be doing it just for fun. and depending on where it was. im not sure i could draw any conclusions from the that. >> a lot of people have been looking at the pilot and co-pilot with a certain sense of concern that maybe they have something to do with it. but there is no proof or evidence right now that either of the men had anything nefarious to do with this airplane. >> it hasnt be...

What does that -- what do you mean? >> well, you know, its one of these things you dont know until you actually get out there into the area and find out for yourself. its tough to predict without having more oceangraphic information. whats the thermal structure of the water, what does that look like? what do the currents look like? what does the topography look like? wheres the location of the pinger and the receiver? its all that stuff. we dont have any of that information. >> richard, were loo...

Discussion with the discussion about thermal layers and there may be geometry with the pinger, the black box being on the side of a hill or something and as the vessel moves, it could shift around enough there could be damp i dont knowing of the acoustic signals. this is promising in my opinion, don. >> can it be sea life or -- >> thats not my area of expertise, but from what i understand, thats all its got to be at this point. what else would be out there to emit that kind of signal? >> im caut...

Dropped to a lower altitude mid-flight, heres where wed see a change. and if someone onboard deliberately altered the flight path, well see this line start to dip or rise depending on the direction. >> i think one of the important things that people will be looking at is who was in control of the aircraft. when we look at the data from the flight data recorder, you can see if the inputs were coming from the auto pilot or the left seat or the right seat. in other words, the pilot or the co-pilot....

These conditions are far from ideal. to be most effective, it needs a starting appoint, a confirmed piece of wreckage from malaysia airlines 370. >> if they havent found deb, is it pointless to use this? >> your question pointless is not a good description. it is very, very difficult if they have not found debris to even know where to start. >> pinger locater limitations, its passive, michbs from the pinger. it doesnt send out signals to pick them up. obstructions like underwater hills or mounta...

Ping from the plane missing a month in. electronic signals reportedly detektsed by a chinese ship yesterday are consistent with an aircrafts black box. but the reports have not been confirmed as some say it could be a whale. >> the black box has been detected, but are they actually going to locate it? >> she was diving in at the salvage officer and was involved in the flight twa this morning. >> good morning. how do they go about going down to -- >> if they do decide that this is a black box, th...