let's hope that it is the first indication of where it is, but we said won't be there for 24, 48 hours. >> it's now 40 days into this search. they haven't found even a tiny piece of the wreckage yet. they think they are looking in the right place, because they did get those pings that were detected, one for two ours, but there's no guarantee, tom, they are even looking in the right place right now. >> no, there's no 100% guarantee. they are relying on the computations of the inmarsat satellite technicians and everything hinges, all the search effort, all of the investigation, is riding on the analysis of a handful of people. >> you've been doing some reporting, rene, the faa now looking at potentially a new way to track airliners. what are you hearing? >> right. this is part of an initiative that's been in the works for years now called nextgen, and part of that initiative is tracking airplanes with satellite-based technology. getting away from the old