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Haven't heard back either, fred. >> hmm. and so, will, what about the sequence of events? i mean, we're only hours away now from baybreak. do you know anything about the plan, what planes will get in the air? whether ships will be redirected? are authorities giving you kind of any indication? >> in a statement from angus houston overseeing the joint coordinated effort here, he said that the royal australian air force is on standby to possibly be deployed over this new area where this ping was possibly detected. but no definitive answers as to when or if it will actually happen. that was as of ...

Some sort of a ping. big question, we don't know why they were looking in this particular place. one question we're hoemping to get answered from the chinese officials in beijing. the problem is, the information stream has been slow. according to a source of ours in the australian defense force, the australian command center got word there was a possible ping detected. they got word around lunchtime on saturday. by the early evening on saturday, when the chinese state news agency put out a news bulletin to the world, it took the australian officials by surprise, because they had been trying to...

Not just necessarily one, since both flight recorders are equipped with pingers? >> they're both -- both recorders are equipped with a unique pinger but the pinger is on the same frequency, so the 37.5 kilohertz is identical to both pingers. if you hear one and the other one is adjacent or nearby, you're going to hear a second ping. it won't be synchronized. the units don't talk to each other, so you will hear two independent pings at that same frequency and same pulse rate. >> and according to the reporting, the chinese are saying the sound they heard was not continuous but lasted maybe for a...

Again, neither of these issues, neither the pulses or the objects at this point have been confirmed as being related to that missing malaysian airliner, fred. >> matthew, earlier it was reported there was a communication problem between chinese authorities and australian authorities. is that still a problem, those two countries connecting and sharing information? >> reporter: well, it's a problem in the sense that the chinese aren't operating in the same way as the other seven countries that are engaged in this international search mission in the sense of this. you know, everyone else when the...

However, we're only hearing a report of one ping. we know that the two beacons ping independently and not at the same time. it could be that only one pinger is working. or both are working but one is many miles away. all of that said, also, fred, it's possible that this is a false positive. we heard one expert saying, gallo, saying earlier today that air france 447, their equipment had a false positive. we know that hms echo, the british ship, this week they also reported a false positive. so to go back to your original question, could this really be the black boxes? it's really hard to say at...