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>> we don't have to open up the black box and to analyze what are the contents of the datas, the voice data and the flight data. we have to get experts to do it for us. >> reporter: the u.s. national transportation board as well as other authorities have sophisticated labs and technicians but an international group of experts has been suggested. if they are found, decoding the black boxes could be complicated. the boxes are built to withstand extreme conditions but memory chips extracted from the data recorders could still be damaged and might require cleaning until the raw data begins to pain...

Confidence is there that something will be found on or below the surface. now, the plan at the moment is to continue that search, hope to hear even more pings and narrow the search area down to even further that of course becoming less and less likely with the pinger batteries fading, even by the hour. of course, important to remember, even if say the wreckage or the data recorders were located even today, the recovery phase has a whole new set of challenges, getting the right vehicles in place and underwater, and dealing with an ocean floor covered in perhaps meters of silt, which can bury de...

Kilometers. authorities narrowed it down after analyzing satellite data and four underwater signals detected saturday and tuesday came from that same area. >> tuesday's pings were weaker, adding to concerns, the locator beacons are giving out, if they haven't already. >> a first step toward answering the many questions surrounding flight 370 will be finding its flight data recorders. as rosa flores reports, that will require a lot of technology and patience. >> reporter: four times investigators have heard pings that are consistent with the signals coming from the missing jet's data recorders....

Manmade signal. so we know the data is actually being analyzed right now. the analysis will continue overnight. and if they have something to report, if they can confirm that they think this is also from a black box, we could learn that as early as tomorrow morning. perth time it would be late in the evening on the east coast where you are, john. >> so just to be clear, when they were picking up sthals from the towed pinger located, they're saying that was in a slightly different frequency as well. they explain that because of the long ocean distances and the cold, the frequency could be chang...

This morning investigators have found a few more clues they say in the hunt for the jetliner. searchers heard another possible signal from the jet's data recorders. also, some fascinating new details on many levels about what happened the night that the plane vanished. malaysian officials say it disappeared from military radar for about 120 nautical miles. they have deduced that it may have disappeared because it dipped to between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. malaysian officials are now also saying that air force search aircraft scrambled to search for the plane, but they say they did not inform sear...