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Is very different. it wasn't done by the towed locator, the ping locator behind ocean shield. this was dropped by an aircraft. it's one of the sonabuoys that's been put into the water and has managed to give a signal. now, what we know is the frequency's in the right area. they don't believe it's of natural origin. and they believe it is a mechanical. but they haven't given us any details. for example, we don't know what the frequency is, we don't know what the repetition rate is. we don't know anything like that. we do know it was at about 1,000 meters. >> 1,000 meters under the surface. we a...

Yes, that says five people have heard it, five people have confirmed it's the captain. the circumstances under which that was said, of course, remain completely unknown. and one crucial point, who was the pilot flying? was it the first officer? or was it the captain? because whoever wasn't the pilot flying does the radios. >> why is it significant, though, who said the final good night? >> it's not significant in one sense, yet it's totally significant because we know after that malaysian airline 370 1:19, whatever happened happened after that. so whoever was at the helm of the aircraft was ei...

Builder. >> the fact that it's picked up by a sonabuoy which is probably less well equipped to detect that signal than the pinger locator, that would indicate that, perhaps, it is still a pretty strong signal. >> reporter: the acoustic data is being analyzed, but the search coordinator says it's potentially from a manmade source. like a flight data recorder. an underwater listening device is attached to the buoy. an antenna relays what it's hearing to the aircraft. the sensors are deployed at least 1,000 feet under water but only work for eight hours. sonabuoys usually used to detect submarine...

Disappeared, we're learning malaysian air force search aircraft were dispatched soon after the airline reported its plane missing. malaysian sources told cnn. headed for the strait of malacca and south china sea. authorities had initially focused their search on the china sea. it took off before authorities corroborated data indicating the plane turned suddenly westward from its original course. the malaysian government denied in a tweet that any malaysian air force aircraft were scrambled. >> i'm suspicious of the information that they've provided. i think the most likely scenario is that the...