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Although some analysts say it could have died several days ago or could last a few more days. you see in the center, this silver dot here, that is the center. once this is submerged in the water, that is the sensor for the ping tore send off a ping. and it pings once per second for 30 days if the battery life holds. we know as the battery starts to die, that ping, according to the manufacturer of the beacon will start to get weak and less frequent. so right now, this is the very crucial period, ...

Purchase, march 3 there was a facebook post. those things seem to be hooked together in terms of what then happened. >> usually they are. i dont purport to speak on behalf of the military but im a commander in the national guard unit and my job is to monitor soldiers who seems to be going through a process. you dont make the whole unit aware of it but you may be tracking folks going through issues. the command is required and you want to be more aware of the behavior. did they track every single...

Area can you search in a given time. the most effective sensor for searching a lot of area in a given time is satellite imagery. its just like a camera in orbit in outer space taking pictures. the next one down from that the search radars and other sensors on the orion. >> its good for once youve found the plane figuring out what happened inside.

For speaking with us this morning. think about it, were 23 days in on this thing without definitive answers about what happened to this flight. as he was talking about this black box, a lot of questions you had, as well. >> i went down to south florida and spoke with a ceo of a company who buys commercial planes and refurbishes them including malaysian airlines boeing 777. i asked him about the planes data recorders and what is inside these things. >> they consist of three parts. you have the ...

Frequencies we can pick. well put it in some water. as soon as its in the water -- >> it starts making the sound. >> thats all it is. it just has to connect that little plastic area, just the connectivity between the two pieces of metal. >> youre saying the sensor on the pinger is essentially a microphone? >> yeah, its basically a microphone. its listening for a pulse of that frequency in the bottom of the ocean, which is very distinctive. its hearing it and it has controls and things like that....

Here which ill turn on and get it tuned in here. theres a bunch of of different frequencies we can pick. what well do is put it in some water. notice no pinging. and as soon as its in the water -- >> it starts making the sound. >> thats it. thats all it is. >> does it have to be completely submerged in water? >> no. it just has to connect that little plastic area between the two pieces of metal. the case and that little dot on the end. >> youre saying the sensor on the pinger is essentially a mi...

This little electrode in the mid gel what happens when you actually put anytime the water? >> what we have here is a tester. its 37 kilohertz which is too high for the ear to hear. so we have this little device here which ill turn on and get it tuned in here. theres a bunch of of different frequencies we can pick. what well do is put it in some water. notice no pinging. and as soon as its in the water -- >> it starts making the sound. >> thats it. thats all it is. >> does it have to be completel...

Remote control from the ground in the event of an emergency. in a situation of distress, in this scenario, the pilot could flick a switch or maybe some kind of a sensor could trigger the autopilot. the autopilot could then be activated by radio or satellite. and our aviation analyst, mark weise, explains what would happen next. >> everything now that the pilots who try to do would be inconsequential. because the ground controller would be handling its flight path, its landing gear, its flap syst...

Theyre parts abdul knows very well. >> measuring 88 parameters, which is the most ever. >> reporter: hes the ceo of a company in ft. lauderdale that buys commercial planes, then refurbishes and sells the parts. right now theyre pull eight part this boeing 777 flown by malaysia airlines, the same make and model as flight 370. this cockpit recorder is identical to the one that could tell investigators why and how mh-370 disappeared. >> they consist of three parts. youve got the element which recor...

>> this is the mapping s.o.n.a.r. so were going over a bit of a debris field here, as well. this s.o.n.a.r. is looking down, and its picking out where the -- where the points on the bottom are. and building that up into a 3-d cloud. and so youre able to get an image of whats beneath you and build up a 3-d point cloud as you go over it. once they know where the debris site is, theyre going to be using this type of s.o.n.a.r., similar, to build up a map of the layout of wreckage on the sea floor. ...