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Sure the indonesians do know what were the last pieces of information that air traffic control got from the plane? we had presumably secondary surveillance radar. we had adsb and so forth. >> yeah. >> and, you know they might have had information coming from the plane right up until the moment of impact. >> right. we still ishave a lot we don't know. it's been about 24 hours now on the dot since the plane disappeared. christine, let me go to you. when you're talking about the hours in search and rescue like this how critical is each hour when it comes to finding wreckage possibly finding survi...

Asking about interim payments, death certificates, i can tell you in the last day or so, insurance companies in malaysia have now made it clear that they will start to entertain insurance claims, even though no bodies or no wreckage has been found. and what it demonstrates, wolf, is the significance of finding wreckage for certainty, but also how to move the process forward without seeming to be insensitive and delicate or downright wrong as they do so. >> richard quest on the scene for us now in kuala lumpur. we're going to check back with you tomorrow, richard. thank you very much for your e...

Autonomous underwater vehicle. for the people who run it it's -- >> basically a smart torpedo. >> reporter: and right now it may be the best remaining hope for finding wreckage from flight 370. we were given exclusive access behind the scenes at phoenix international, the company which runs the bluefin, to see just how it works. while it may launch from the side of a search ship, the bluefin is actually operated by remote control with help from a satellite. its job, not to listen for pings but to map the ocean floor and look for debris. to do that, it can use two different payloads which have ...

Here are not saying, carol. >> erin mclaughlin, reporting live from perth, australia. despite the bluefin's early return it is the best hope to find flight 370 and it is an amazing piece of technology. >> reporter: this is a very sophisticated underweather drone essentially. we got access to the operators who run the vehicle who acknowledge this is a difficult job for the bluefin but they say it's up to the task. its manufacturer calls it the bluefin 21, it's technically known as at autonomous underwater vehicle, auv. >> it's a spart torpedo. >> reporter: right now it maybe the best remainin...

On its first trip scanning the ocean floor, nothing of interest, nothing related to the plane, and it was a trip cut short because this unmanned sub had descended to the maximum depth it could, some 15,000 feet below the ocean surface. now, the bluefin-21 is called the best hope yet for finding wreckage from this jet, and this morning, search crews preparing to lower it again, again into the indian ocean to look once more for the plane that's been missing now for 39 days. erin mclaughlin live in perth with the latest on the search. so, they got it out there, they got it down for a couple of ho...