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Typically the batteries clast for 30 days, usually they last a little bit longer and that's what we're trying to find. what is critical is that the teams out there searching for the surface debris they get good position data on that and they feed it back to the oceanographers to help us determine a probable point of impact for where the aircraft went in. >> you know, there are so many things that will be triggered by a piece of wreckage being found. what they'll do is try to back track and look at the drifts and the currents in the weather and hopefully be able to pinpoint that impact, as well...

Is going to be so much harder to find this wreckage. >> much more difficult. let's bring in cnn safety analyst david, the author of "why planes crash." we're three weeks into this search and still no concrete evidence. we heard that one of the suspicious object was a dead jelly fish. do you think that search teams are going to find the black boxes before they stop pinging? the question here is, seven days left of the battery life and in three days, possibly, the u.s. resources to detect the resources will go into the water? why now? why not earlier? >> well, the reason is the tow pinger locate...

>> good morning, victor. good morning, christi. as this new effort is focused on the new search site, we have been looking at ways of the 777 might have gone down. this is important to know because how it went into the water could depend on the debris or wreckage that is found. set it up so that the engines are shutting down now. this is to simulate running out of fuel. what we're going to do is leave the auto pilot on. if the auto pilot were off it might make a gentle descent towards the ocean but tumble when it hit the water. with the auto pilot still on, you get a different effect. what are...

Run its course. find part of the airplane and give them something physical. mary schiavo made the comment early on that she would like to have something physical, something tangible to hold on to base a lot of our opinions. >> i want to ask mary scholley this -- captain bobby scholley this. we're talking about the family members here and the search for the family members, the possibility of finding wreckage, you said verily slim but in the conditions of those waters, family members are wanting something, hopefully the bodies of their families. what are the odds of that, sadly? >> you know, in ...

>> the fbi's conducted many, many, many worldwide investigations and has a lot of expertise. and quite frankly, getting to those files is very important to see if this pilot practiced certain procedures or if he practiced waypoints that were along his route. we could learn a lot. or we could learn nothing. >> a match between a chinese satellite and an australian satellite, both finding wreckage. the wreckage checks out about the same size. 1,500 miles to the southwest of australia. is this satellite match cause for optimism, or is this just a derelict shipping container