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The search for flight 370 is intensifying in the south indian ocean. looking for those two objects spotted by satellite some 1500 miles from perth, australia. we have five planes that went out looking for them this morning. one is back. an american 3x 8 poseidon, one of these big search planes is back now. i'm joined by senior analyst for met ron, helped for flight 447 search that crashed in 2007. air france crash 447 is relevant to this situation. we keep mentioning it. why? why a good test case. >> a recent example of an aircraft going wrong, going down and spending an exhaustive certainly t...

It to reconstruct what was happening in those fateful final moments. >> we hear a lot about the voice recorder, an important piece of this puzzle. >> right. >> where is it located? >> located -- usually located in the tail. that's the part more protected usually depending on the type of crash. when we say black box, we're referring to -- collectively these two boxes are, quote, black box. that's recording an audio channel. this is a key, key piece of information in this case. only the last two hours. why? we certainly have technology to record more than two hours. because of the privacy of the...

Beginning we ended up revisiting. that was the breakthrough in the certainly. we assume underwater beacon locaters -- beacons on black boxes were functioning, two of them, independent systems. we gave very good credit to the beacon surge right in the beginning. as it turns out they were both broken, highly unlikely. we went back and said perhaps we should revisit this and consider there was no target during that certainly and that's what led to recommending the area where the crash was found. >> hopefully what we learned about how to question assumptions and what might be right and might be wr...