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Anything found. debris spotted last sunday by satellite may be related but australia's prime minister acknowledges it may only be a lost shipping container. we wait and see. thank you for joining us in the cnn newsroom, i'm natalie allen. viewers in the u.s. will now see "early start." up next for international viewers, you'll see "world business today." good day.
Find it on a timely -- in a timely manner? >> well, first of all, aircraft are normally tracked through acars and other equipment, but if this equipment is tampered with, switched off or damaged or electrical power is lost to it, then, indeed, that tracking will fail. so you know, it's difficult to come up with something that is fail-proof, that allows aircraft to be tracked. >> right. >> but let me put this to you. there is an elt, the electronic locator transmitter, which sits in the roof of the aircraft, the 777, near the tail, and that's supposed to start transmitting signals to satellite ...