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Level of automation. and automation can sometimes increase when work load is high and decrease when work load is low, during a long portion of a flight. so it is important to work hard to mentally fly the airplane using the technology to help maneuver it. having said that i think it is important that we design our cockpit in such a way that we use the human part of the system to its advantage. and one of the things that humans are not good at is monitoring other systems and doing things over man...

A female haas passenger has become the first victim to be identified and returned to her family. she was laid to rest a short time ago. indonesian officials confirm nine of the 162 people who were on that flight have been recovered so far. nine. also luggage, pieces of stairs and other metal scraps were collected today floating in the java sea. but the horrible weather and rough seas have made these efforts extremely difficult. right now the search is suspended because of the dark and dangerous ...

Says theres more interference from waves, passing ships and inclement weather that makes isolating the pings hard sgler this show it is frequencies in the ocean. if the pinger were nearby wed see a sharp spike at the pinger frequency. >> time is not on the investigators side. the batteries on the pingers only last about 30 days. if the pingers fail searchers will likely turn to sonar. >> this is the sonar. this is what theyll use to map the sea floor once they have an idea where the debris site ...

Hydrogr hydrogropher. >> theyre going to use to this search for that pinger locater. >> reporter: how far can it hear? >> about five miles. >> reporter: but unlike the depths in the indian ocean where malaysia flight 370 disappeared, the java sea is shallow, running only about 80 to 100 feet deep. while it is easier to operate hydrophones at this depth, coleman says theres more interference closer to the surface from waves from passing ships. >> this shows the frequencies in the ocean. if the pi...

Different in the area it sloshes. the divers that have to go from a larger vessel to a smaller one are having troubles getting into the water. once they are down 20 feet the water is calm for them. another thing to think about is if theyre going to start to use the pull pinger indicators sore sewnonar sonars theyll have to do that at night because the waters of calm. i remember that during the malaysian 370 search when we had the australian tanker pulling the bluefin 21 they broke a couple cable...

60 miles from last known location in the air of this plane, which raises the possibility of a very large debris field. so does that make it clear that there is still a lot of work to be done before you can start reliably putting something in the water, a hydrophone and come to find where the black box is? >> correct, jim. good evening jim and richard. here is a pinger. this is a typical -- typical of the one installed on the aircraft in question. the range of these pingers is like you said about...

Going about 150, and even though theres bad weather out there right now, had he will get that wreckage. i understand they think they may have spotted it even upside down, but if its integral, the black boxes will be in the tail. thats where theyre located, and they can with stand the shock of hitting the water and there will be a pinger thats activated as soon as the recorders are under water but not before that. the pingers will begin to sound, and they will -- they have a good long life so the...

Acoustic listeners in the water. i would consider night operations they can launch the big ships and work at night and run from the weather during the day and at least start looking for the pinger on a clock thats ticking >> they have a general idea of where the plane went down. i understand that sonar is on its way from singapore. its not there yet. have to wonder why isnt it there yet? >> thats in question if theyve seen the plane or not and frankly when you take sonar images you take long ran...

Debris site if the pinger cant find it. this emits sound. >> reporter: like hydrophones, sonars work better in very deep water. but coleman says in shallow water, the search can move along more quickly. sonar is just showing us whats at the bottom, right? >> exactly. its emitting that sound. as the sound comes back off the bottom, its interpreting it to draw a 3-d image of whats on the sea floor. and it also generates a top-down image. >> reporter: that imagine will help investigators mark the d...

The vast majority of it containing technology that supports the brain buried deep within. surprisingly small, but containing everything neil campbell needs on a handful of computer chips. in a box this big, thats what you need sp >> thats the crucial portion. >> lets bring our guests back in. we have tom fuentes, david sousi, and miles obrien. miles, when we were back in march, there was this urgency about flight 370, finding the black box before the battery on the pinger went out. here you have...