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Why is it we only have 30 days on these? why after all of the innovation we don't have some better system for this? >> you know, that's an excellent question because of the fact that the french government now for 447 recommended as one of their top recommendations inl s lessons learned from the accident that that be extended to 90 days. yet four, five years later nothing -- >> anywhere. >> not even proposed rule make. >> this is not exclusion to malaysian airlines, nobody has implemented a new system. >> not that i'm aware of. >> if we never ever find these so-called data recorders, black boxe...

Entire time and they can hear what it hears. >> and presumably hear the pings from the flight data recorders, the so-called black boxes? >> correct. >> so that would be pretty significant. do we know if they actually dropped those buoys into where the debris may be located? >> i heard about buoy deployments yesterday to look at what the currents are doing but we'll need that information to backtrack to the possible impact point. i'm not sure what has been deployed in the area. i think more importantly is getting to, is it the right wreckage before we start listening for the pingers. because th...

Somewhere out there. whether it's land or sea. that is the emergency locater transmitter in the tail. >> correct. >> that is the epirb, on the rafts. and then, of course -- we like to call them the old fashioned name, black boxes, cockpit voice recorder. give me a breakdown on those other two transmitters and battery life left on the black boxes. >> well, the elt and the epirbs are short-term, 24 to 48 hours. once they touch water they start sending a signal for only 24 to 48 hours. >> so what was in the tail and what was on those life rafts is done. >> correct. however, if that had happened, ...

Satellites five hours after the transponder went dead. u.s. officials saying there's a significant likelihood the plane is at the bottom of the indian ocean. back with me is my panel and bill nye a former boeing engineer and working on the design of so-called black boxes. and retired senior ntsb investigator. matthew robinson, we were talking before the break there. i want to ask you a more focused question about the terrain. i believe you know the area well. obviously completely baffling to many people watching the story we're only finding out now it could be in the indian ocean. is it possib...

Damaged if it did actually crash on impact, it would really just break apart. but this would be very different. this sort of search would be very different than that 2009 crash of air france off the coast of brazil. in that case, the plane disintegrated and it settled some 12,000 feet deep. that required specialized equipment to go and recover the so-called black boxes. we're talking about the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. now, in this case, at depths of about 300 feet or so in the area that we're talking about, it would be much easier to try and locate and recover the d...