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Transmitters on board the missing many. they are supposed to send locators out on impact. not one burst was sent from flight 370. could the possible reasons why these didn't work lead us closer to finding out what happened? it's one of the most baffling questions in an already con founding mystery. why didn't any emergency beacons send a distressed signal? they are called elts. and a senior aviation source tells cnn there were four of them on the plane. >> emergency locator transmitter is a small radio transmitter that sends a signal detected by satellites in the event of an airplane crash. >>...

Probably a more appropriate tool. >> christopher, if the search area that's now being thoroughly examined, 80% of it apparently has been examined by the bluefin-21, comes up with nothing, what would you recommend? >> i would recommend that, well, first of all, go back and do a systemic study of all of the information that's available. and like they did in flight 447. then pick key areas where once you've refined results to allow you to focus on where you should search. i think that's the real area to work with. any system that you go out and try to did a wide scale search has to be focused in ...

Brought into the mission? >> well, i wouldn't be the one to make that call, sir. i think it's a decision that has to be made by the people who are running the search. there's really two parts to the problem. one is deciding where to search, the other one is how to search the area that they've decided to search. that's where our expertise comes from. find the area to search, then we take over. >> tell us about the remus 6,000, presumably if it were brought in, what could it do, for example, that the bluefin-21 can't do? >> well, i wouldn't compare the two. i think the main focus that the -- tha...

Forensic pathologist across the country in recent days, and all of them believe that they will be at some point involved in the identification and the processing of those remains. the other piece of this is something the u.s. navy is also talking about, which is, if bluefin-21 does not come up with anything this week, in this most promised area, where the strongest ping was heard back on april 8th, then they will have to go to a wider plan. they will probably reset the search. they will look either for a different area to search for the bluefin or go to different technologies, whether it's a t...

His mother. apparently he picked the plane randomly in san jose. we do not know why he picked a plane that said hawaiian on it if he was trying to go to somalia. we don't yet know the full story. hawaii's department of health and human services saying the stowaway is resting comfortably. but how he survived is a huge mystery. i want to bring in a los angeles doctor who treated the survivor of a similar stowaway attempt in 2000 and cnn aviation analyst les abend. great to have both of you with us. your patient traveled from tahiti to los angeles. that's a 7 1/2 hour flight in the wheel well of ...