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>> 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

>> 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

As a piece of a plane. but, it could be something as small as a seat cushion or a life vest. finding wreckage is like finding the needle in the hay stack. if only they could find the hay stack. >> that's a sonar buoy. >> correct. >> reporter: these devices are deployed in the indian ocean to monitor sounds and map the wind and ocean currents in hopes of narrowing down the search area. it has to fly in straight lines at 1,000 feet. at this height, a fishing boat can be obscured. this boat is about the same length as that piece of debris spotted on satellite. that could be missed, right in. >> a...

Electro optical sensors. >> like the best type of camera available on the market. >> reporter: what you can see with that that you can't see with radar? it gives the p8 an advantage in picking out objects in an endless blue ocean. the search area for the missing plane is so remote and takes so long to get to the navy only has about three hours a day to use these hi-tech tools. and that's not the only problem. there are so many unknowns that search teams really don't even know what to look for. it could be something as large as a piece of a plane. but it could be something as small as a seat cu...

Aircraft. up until we've never seen the inside of the plane. we got exclusive access to the p8 poseidon. >> reporter: the poseidon p8 surveillance jet is designed to hunt submarines and yet when it comes to finding wreckage of the missing malgsian flight the navy is not making any promises. you don't even know exactly where to look right now, do you. >> correct. and because the debris may potentially be very small we're searching with very small track links to make sure we don't miss anything over the course of the volume of space we're searching. >> reporter: we've been granted access to p8 i...