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>> or maybe it wasnt pinging at all. that is a possibility. in the case of the famous sully flight into the hudson river. the pinger attached to the cockpit voice recorder came into contact with water and was easily recovered because it was still in the aircraft, never operated. we dont know for sure. >> that gets to your point of keeping it in a cool dry place. its important that it be stored correctly for the battery life to continue? >> its critically important for that, as it gets hotter, it...

Mission. they will be there until they are told they are not needed anymore. and, for the most part, their spirits are pretty high and we hope to help, find the debris to bring a little bit of closure to the situation. >> lieutenant, thank you, sir. especially thank you because you represent the american citizens so well, all of you out there helping trying to find these 239 people or what happened to them. thank you, lieutenant. >> thank you, greta. my pleasure. >> and this is all-important. am...

A day. thats a big challenge for searchers. >> its a very big challenge for searchers, unless they get additional information. theyre going to have to rely on luck. at this rate it would take a week or so to cover the area. they only have a week left. >> david gallo saying before that, early on in the air france search, 447, the listening devices went over the area where the black boxes were and heard nothing. debris and silt can make it harder for the pingers to be detected. >> or maybe it wasn...

Today the team came back and said, okay, we have your answers. we do know that three of them cannot be turned off manually. one of them can. so, theyre starting to get answers to some of these very technical issues. christine? >> all right. thank you so much, pauline chiou, for that this morning in beijing. >> one of the biggest obstacles in the search for flight 370 for the last three weeks has been the weather of the coast of australia. the question is, whats coming next? will the weather help...

The australian defense ship "oceanfield," is en route to the search zone, towing a u.s. navy pinger device, which can detect a black box up to 20,000 feet below the surface. this section of the ocean is no deeper than 10,000 feet. tony abbott said the search would continue indefinitely, despite no solid leads. >> until we locate some actual wreckage from the aircraft, and then do the regression analysis that might tell us where the aircraft went into the ocean, well be operating on guesstimates,...

Debris on the surface or on the ocean bed. and thats what the p-8s -- the p-3s should be doing. it has been delayed, but the maritime surveillance is still going to be out there and still looking for the on top of the surface clues. >> colleen, i wonder if this delay really puts the crew under pressure, giving them about two days before they get out in the area where they think that, you know, they can reach the or hear the pinger before it dies. >> well, im sure theyre feeling the pressure. but...

Are you feeling like we cant hold out hope on that? >> i dont think the ping ser going to be in play anymore. i think our chances of finding it based on that data is close to zero right now. >> you really do? >> yeah. if its even working. these have proven so unreliable in the past. >> but the fact is we know and it was, again, a different situation, air france, they found that two years later. so the pinger would not have been in play but they also knew where the black box roughly could be. >> ...

Hes also confirming something the families were showing t asian airlines making a loop animal laza and not just a left turn. unclear why that would be confirmed to the families and not confirmed to the press. this is only fueling the -- time the literally running out. the batteries on those flight data reporters are expected to run out later this week. its been 24 day -- the u.s. has put a pinger on an australian defense ship. now that pinger can see a flight data recorder, over 20,000 feet over...

Youve heard people say, they will put that into the water. it is just not useful to do it willy-nilly at such a vast space. >> van, i want to play for you a clip. this is chuck hagel speaking about this entire operation. listen to this. >> just a reminder, that area is the size of new mexico and this very sophisticated equipment that we have provided and we have provided, as far as i know, everything that the malaysian government has requested of us, is really reliant totally on defined search a...

International to get a look at how it works. this device is now on board the australian ship, "ocean shield" as it heads out. how it works is if a piece of wreckage is found, only if a piece of wreckage is found, they tow this device back and forth for miles at a time, many miles at a time, sometimes hours. it will listen intently for the sound of the pinger on the black box. it can pick up that sound. here is my conversation with paul nelson about the distance involved here. how far away can it...