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The last two hours of voice transmission in the cockpit. the flight data recorder records a lot further back than that. the next step will be sending down a r.o.v., a robotic submersible that this is a work class rov. it is industrial strength if you like. able to bring back quite large pieces to the surface. if you get the black boxes, you dont usually need to go back too much further with forensic examinations. >> what if they dont reveal everything? like i said, this flight flew on for more h...

Great rush. then we would need to bring in more equipment, an rov. that would go down to retreat the black boxes, all large pieces of wreckage for forensic examination. >> captain darby, these are hopeful scenarios. these are ifs, if the pulses can be redetected, if the pulses turn out to be the black boxes. a lot of pope here. >> it is. if it a true ping, its well founded. they have been extremely lucky to find out or had information others didnt have. somehow we took hundreds of thousands of s...

Though these boxes may be in the general vicinity, lets talk about the depth of three miles potentially in this area. we heard our jennifer gray make comparisons of that, distance of 20 eiffel towers. what kind of equipment can be brought in, the time line to bring in and salvage explore beneath the surface? >> thats a very good question. if this is verified as a pinger noise, then really weve hit the jackpot and were able to stick a pin and say this is the spot. the next step is to map the sea ...

Right now a british navy survey ship in the area of the indian ocean where a chinese ship detected underwater signals. this could be a lead for flight 370. theres serious concern about the equipment that detected the pulses. here is cnns report. >> reporter: we now know more about the equipment used when the pinging sound was reportedly detected. we spoke to the company that makes it. they tell us divers can use it or it can be used hand-held from the surface like the chinese are doing in this v...

Move that quickly. around noon. they are still contemplating in the press release what they were going to do and finally decided to answer this. as i mentioned earlier, i dont think they can ignore it whether they want to or not, this was broadcast in china as the finding of the airplane. if the "echo" gets there and it finds nothing from the equipment they are still going to have to go to the bottom with the submersibles and do more. i dont think they can sale away and say we didnt find anythin...

Together, would they not. should expectations be high or low for that level of cooperation? >> i think they will have that level of cooperation based on what we saw the equipment, chinese equipment that found the pings, it was pretty rudimentary. they need that ship, the british "echo," because finding the pings and hearing the pings is a tiny part of what youve got to do. then youve got to find where the source of the pings are, find the location of the black boxes, get down there and map the f...

Are not many limitations you can find it. the chinese vessel did duplicate the 37.5 gigahertz. you are talking about this section of the ocean 20,000 feet. if indeed a pinger or pulse is detected that is now in the area, give me an idea of how and by what means would the exploration go to those depths. you have been in depths like this. explain what would be in store. >> there are two ways to get to these depths. you can use a remote operated vehicle, an rov and you would need a work class rov w...

In 2009 it passed right over the box from flight 447 in the atlantic. in that case the pinger locater failed to find the pinger. they said thats because the pinger had broken off from the black box. it might have been damaged. three other cases success, egypt air crash in the atlantic in 1999 and air crash of adam air jet off indonesia. the black boxes were found by search areas were small. malaysia air is the fifth attempt and still a long shot. >> we have nothing to use. its a better shot on t...