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Area. again, all of this has to be based on conjecture. they dont have any physical clues to tell them where to look. thats moving beyond on the surface. you have to looka the surface covering the ground. does it get like that. >> they are bringing the pinger once they find the debris and they are looking for the pings from the black box. so much of the search area is on tap. >> its untapped. heres the difference. when you are above the water, you can talk about at least doing a reasonable curso...

Could get in the whole world at it. >> the question was answered by giving the most sophisticated pinger locating equipment available. finding something related to an aircraft in the ocean. even when they find object, its difficult for them to say it might be part of an aircraft because? >> because from the pictures and when they pull it on board, you dont automatically know what it is. they will know when something is from an aircraft because parts on an aircraft are very specific to aircraft. ...

And i think everybody is probably togs around some of these things. the pinger they last heard which was the satellite, it was like the last handshake they had from the plane. i know that there are security issues involved but i dont think weve heard anything as to whether or not that could be the point of impact. have they gone there before looking farther north. i have so many questions. >> as we have been saying, we have so many more questions than answers. i dont know for sure if theyve gone...

Search area with this on board, towed pinger locater. it can probe down to 20,000 feet listening for the signal. >> here is a black box. you can see a pinger or beacon attached to the black box. when this gets wet it triggers a signal in here. >> reporter: the pinger locater can detect the black box signal from as far as two nautical miles away. >> if the boat is doing this on the ocean waves now you are attached to this thing so this thing goes up and down and is much less stable in the water. ...

I dont mean to be pessimistic, but this is a monumental task. what he is talking about doing is just getting the tpl into the water and hoping that youre going to hear something. you have to get within one or two miles of the source to hear it. and you know the numbers. the search area is so big that its such a long shot anyway that i dont think a six-hour delay is going to make a difference. >> geoffrey thomas, i dont know if you were able to hear our correspondent there say there has been a si...

Harder to find. the planes black box is supposed to ping for a month, so there are just days left now. this plane went missing on march 8th. ten aircraft, ten ships are going to scour the search zone in the indian ocean again today west of australia looking for any sign of the flight. australian officials now say orange objects spotted sunday thought to be a good lead here. those orange objects, theyre not from the plane. theyre fishing gear. fishing junk in this vast area of the sea that is ful...

Going on? >> well, im not particularly upset by the delay right now, because frankly, i dont think we have a very good idea of where to send the ship. i dont mean to be pessimistic, but this is a monumental task. what he is talking about doing is just getting the tpl into the water and hoping that youre going to hear something. you have to get within one or two miles of the source to hear it. and you know the numbers. the search area is so big that its such a long shot anyway that i dont think a...

Reporting, we have the transcript and they have not corrected the belief that the final few words were already, good night. today we are told the final words were actually good night malaysian 370. the ship carrying a ping detector departed today en route to the search zone. 3:00 in the morning their time. they are working on borrowed time. the pinger could run out of batteries next week. >> typically the batteries last for 30 days. usually they last longer and thats what we are trying to find. ...

Change. good night malaysian 370. its not clear if it was the pilot or copilot speaking. the search itself here, time is running out. by next week, the 30-day badly life of the pinger that helps searchers find the crucial black box is likely to expire if it hasnt already. right now a australia navy ship is searching and on that ship is very sophisticated u.s. equipment to help listen for and detect the ping and find the boxes. government officials say they plan on asking the u.s. for more help. ...

Ocean bed. and thats what the ph, 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 the silver bullet comment is -- has...