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Universally accepting these are not it. what if it is it? >> because theyre doing it in extremis. theyre doing it urgently. theyre doing it with a deadline of 30 days that is about to expire there is a tight schedule. >> does that mean youre also skeptical about the conclusion about the inmarsat that its in the south? because that was also made in extremis. >> no because once they have done that work, they then sent it out to other people to check it. that work has been checked by other organiza...

But thats okay. now were at this juncture, this transition period, where we need to move to this long-term search where, and i do echo the prime ministers remarks, well expand the search area and from here determine what are the best assets to use, whether thats military, government, or commercial, and where we go from here. >> and i want to ask you about that, but first, two weeks ago on this show you said, look, you were confident that the pings that you had heard in the indian ocean, the ping...

Continue to search the area north of the pinger. u.s. navy telling cnn the next likely area that would be searched is where the first ping was picked up which say few miles north of that. the water gets deeper there. they might other devices to search that area. if they dont find it in any of those area, the prime minister is talking about going to an area of 26,600 square miles big. to date, they have searched about 150 square miles of that. so it is a massive, massive, undertaking. they are sa...

Over the next few days. >> david, you think its premature to abandon any further underwater searches? >> oh, yes. its definitely too premature to do that. one of the things that mary schiavo had brought up early on within the last week or so, perhaps we should dprop another pinger and test that and see if its reflective of what they determined before. even before they do that, going up to the northern area, even bringing in some other tools, some deeper tools perhaps the rema 6,000, a few other ...

The air force. michael, what is the best news for this expensive search and resources, air or sea? >> i think its a combination of both, don. i think you have to have a combination of both in terms of maximizing the possibilities of linking something to the resting place in the south indian ocean of mh 370. there is a natural pause here in terms of the search tempo in terms of the air side and the bluefin as well. the big decision that angus houston had to make 12 days ago was going from the pin...

Pinger, the signal coming from the black boxes contain pg the flight recorders. these beacons are designed to be activated if they send extreme deceleration or impact. experts say there are other possible scenarios with the missing plane where the elts would not have worked. >> if the plane crashed with too much velocity into the surface so that the entire plane is disintegrated also if the plane lands gently enough for instance if the plane is set down gent ri enough that there wasnt sufficient...

Indicates its the close e to the pinger, but obviously that wasnt the case. while im saddened that the families will have to wait longer im anxiously awaiting the results of the next area where theyll search to the north. thats why we had the two-hour length ping receptions so that to me in my mind would be a really good place to look and i think thats going to present some challenges as rob could probably tell us about, but its a little bit deeper than before. >> what are some of the challenges...

Confidence that they can go forward, even if the malaysian resources run thin. >> after hearing the acoustic signals, the pinger, he believed it was from the missing plane. what is your take on the fact nothing, nothing has been found? >> it seems extraordinary theres no floating debris given the assets to search in the area. but, the fact they perceived a beacon, which is almost certainly from one of the two recorders, if not both of them, it would have to be fairly close to there. these are ve...

Regrouping. you know, the ocean shield has been out there for quite a while. its got to come back. get fuel, supplies. i think there are better assets that have been discussed by other analysts that need to go back in the water. but we need to complete the other 5% of that search at this point in time. >> mary, ill ask you the same question. what fresh ideas should we be looking at as our options? >> the same thing that les said, but i would also want to know, you know, we have heard so much abo...

Find air france. bluefin-21 is only on its 14th mission right now. if youre a pespessimist, as on u.s. official told reuters, then youre saying this is going to take years. they dont have a real idea where this plane is. its only an educated guess. a good educated guess, with a series of mathematical ecase qus and trial and error. so far bluefin-21 is on its 14th mission. about 95% of the initial search zone, located about six miles around pinger location number two. pinger number two was the st...