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It's far short from confirming that the black boxes from mh370. here's where things stand. the sixth week of the mystery is now under way with up to 12 planes and 14 ships involved in sunday's search in the southern indian ocean. a number of objects have been spotted and recovered thus far. but none is linked to the missing boeing 777. still no new underwater pings heard since tuesday. >> meanwhile, ma la shah's transport minister says officials are discussing which country will be given custody of the airliner's flight recorders if they're recovered from the ocean. >> last week we watched a t...

Tony abbott, over the last couple of days expressing some level of confidence of finding these black boxes. but let me ask you this. how close are they now to finding the airliner's flight recorders? >> reporter: we haven't been given a specific timetable. yesterday the australian prime minister tony abbott saying that it'll likely take some time for them to physically locate the black box. they have 2.8 miles of water to contend with. as you mentioned, he is confident, though. he said that they are looking in the right place. but we're still at the stage of the search in which they're still t...

And their sensing techniques underneath the area and also a separate air search area, aircraft flying through the skies monitoring closely the surface of the ocean to see whether they can find debris of the missing airliner. you see that every day, almost. the search area has been getting smaller and smaller, and it's important to point out that's not because of any data they've received, any new data that's been received. it's simply because they've established these four separate acoustic events, four separate ping detections over the course of the past week. the last one was four days aroun...

The latest, it's difficult to come by any more information that's come out of the search area. over the past -- of course, the past 48 hours, basically, there's been press releases that have given us basic details about the search continuing and the size of the search zone. you mentioned it had shrunk to an unprecedented size of 16,000 square miles, which, remember, is still a vast bit of ocean. but in terms of, you know, concrete evidence that this is -- they're in the right place and there are more pings, i mean, we've heard very little. i suppose the real latest information is the further e...

Okay. we are now beginning the sixth week of the search for mh-370. so much has happened in the past five weeks. here's where things stand on the search. tony abbott says there's a high degree of confidence that signals picked up so far are, in fact, from the plane's flight recorders. >> searchers detected pings all over last week, but the part to stress is no new signal detected since tuesday. also considerable challenges remain. >> no one should underestimate the difficulties of the tasks still ahead of us. yes, we have narrowed down -- very considerably narrowed down the search area, but tr...