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>> that's correct. and that is what we would have expected. >> and that was at 300 meters deep, right, what you thought was a little odd, because it wasn't deep. right? >> that's correct. >> and then you turned off all noise-producing devices or anything on board the ship so that you wouldn't be getting a false reading. correct? >> yes, correct. >> then you lowered to 1400 meters? >> correct. >> correct. and then when you lowered to 1400 meters, you got a stronger signal, right, which then faded a bit? >> yes. and that's actually encouraging news because as you move toward it, the signal shoul...

You want to reduce any false alarm. they did that. and at that point, they held that signal again for over two hours. now, at that point, the pcl was lowered to about 1400 meters. so that was deeper. and that is more where you would expect to get this signal. as you tow the tow pinger locator, the signals should get stronger and then fade as you good past it, if that is indeed the black box. and that's what it did. it got stronger, and then it faded out. so that was encouraging news. after that, they passed the signal. what you do is you reel it back in, and you do a course change. this was a ...

>> that's correct. and you change courses to about the opposite direction is typical. >> so once you did a course change, you lowered it to 3,000 meters, right? >> yes, that's correct. >> and then you said you detected it for -- it is 1-5 minutes, or 5-0 minutes? >> that's 1-5, 15 minutes. and two hours previously. >> okay. so that's where you are now? >> that's correct. >> so are you detecting one device or two devices? is this one ping or two pings? >> well, we have -- we did detect pings from slightly different locations. and once again, you have to remember there are two black boxes. so th...

Thought we were lacking any really stable and salient information. it's very hard to come by. then it struck me, it was staring me in the face all the time. we know one really interesting thing, which that the engines continued to run perfectly throughout the whole period of this flight. that meant that the fuel was going from the three tanks, one in the center, two in the wings, to the engines as they should have done and fuel was being transferred. everything was working by the book for the duration of that flight, or from the time it made the course change and gone out to the malacca strait...

Obtained the full communication report and the recording from the flight, from the moments before the takeoff to the last contact with one of the two pilots. the newspaper claims for the most part the wanter was -- banter was routine except for who things a message the cockpit repeated about the plane's altitude, and the second, the final voice communication from the cockpit saying, all right, good night. after the jet's computer reportedly sent information about the plane's course change. as for the ongoing search we reported the pilots who went out today over remote section of the southern i...