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The indian ocean it becomes even more important to find those black boxes. malaysia's transportation minister said until the flight recorders are located it's difficult to clear the passengers and crew of any wrongdoing. i know what you are saying, what? because it wasn't long ago that malaysia's inspector general, the police, cleared all the passengers. left hand. >> as we have said earlier, only the passengers have been cleared. the rest, no. >> fast forward to sunday when these comments were made from malaysia's acting transportation minister. >> there is an ongoing thing. i don't think tha...

Than there have been in expectations that something would be found. now we're hearing from angus houston, don't expect necessarily that something will be found. >> i guess angus houston has got the tough job of actually finding the wreckage. whereas the prime minister is basing his comments on input from different sources. the reality is that it is a really difficult task to find the aircraft wreckage on the ocean floor. and it is not necessarily flat terrain, for one thing. it could be hidden on crevices. and all of those features make the search more difficult and critical components of the ...

Let's bring in michael holmes live in perth, australia, for all the details. good morning, michael. >> reporter: good morning to you, kate, from perth in western australia. yes, that's right. those four pings that we're now pretty certain came from the flight recorders well, they haven't heard anything since last tuesday nearly a week. and they've given up hearing more. they now think that the batteries have gone flat and it is time to move in for a new phase. ray shift in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370 after three straight days, australian officials announced they will be...

And interpretation of different data that have resulted in them searching where they are. and like any good search activity, you need some triangulation in order to fix the point where there is the highest likelihood. it seems to me that the analysis of the returns from the flight recorders has given them a standard of a search area. and they stand to move. they're confident that it is accurate enough to start looking on the floor of the ocean for the wreckage. >> it will take a long time though, isn't it? and angus houston certainly seemed to downplay expectations. there had been earlier talk...

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