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Locater transmitters. they're different of course from the data recorders. now those elts are designed to transmit the plane's location from the emergency satellite. and it does that when it is triggered by a crash or contact with the water. but the source was puzzled over why they appear to have not activated. or if they did activate why they were not picked up by the satellite. again raising more questions, did they not activate because they did not work or perhaps the plane did not have a hard impact. if it sank slowly that might not trigger them. again, more questions, anderson, not answer...

Two hours. how valuable do you think these recorders will be? >> you know, i'm not sure two hours in this particular scenario is going to be enough because the aircraft has traveled a significant distance from the actual area where it's initially gone off track. i think when we talked earlier we look at the where, the what thes, and the why. the why bit is going on the incredibly difficult to discern if we're going to go back all of the way six hours to the point where the transponder came off in the south china sea and why it occurred. having cvr data at that point when it initially diverted ...

Malaysian flight 370. >> if you relook at the pings from the data recorders to make a reassessment -- >> let's make sure we didn't miss it. i know they have been being careful but be sure you don't leave that area until you're positive it's not there. >> arthur, another question for you. there has been frustration from the beginning on a lot of levels about sharing of information certainly from the malaysian government side and saw that with radar data early on. you have some frustration aimed at a satellite company that provided the pings that were coming from the jet's engine before it disap...

>> absolutely. >> paul, you're the audio expert here. we have heard australian officials and others express confidence they are looking in the right place here. if they go over this next week and don't find any signs of wreckage and readjust the search zone how much of an adjustment are we talking about based on the pings they have heard from the data recorders? are they talks tens of miles, hundreds of miles or small adjustments around the edges? >> i don't think so. we only have a limited number of data points. one way or another we have different ping locations where we acquired it and real...

The news from the site of that sunken south korean ferry is not good, the death toll up to 20. but around 270 passengers are still missing. many of them high school students. today a crew member said an immediate evacuation order was not issued and he does not recall any such order being announced across the ship's public address system. there's also a report that the captain was among the first to abandon ship. still, no news on the search for flight 370 in the indian ocean. investigators say oil from a slick near that search area was not from the plane. it tested negative for aircraft oil ...