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/* -- remotely operated camera. >> and then on that, did the black box still have the recording of what occurred in the moment when the plane started going down? had it -- i think from the time the plane started going down to the time it hit the water it was relatively quick, right? >> four minutes. so the surprising thing there was that it had been two years that those boxes were at about 4,000 meters depth. so 2 1/2 miles depth. we had no idea whether the information would still be there. but anderson, in this day and age with the right robots, and we've got those robots and the right sensor...

>> let us know what you think on twitter. coming up, how do you find a plane in the ocean? we'll show you how waterproof microphones are listening for any pings from those black boxes. and other breaking news. the death toll climbing in the washington state landslide. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money? uhhh. no, that can't happen. that's the thing, you don't know how long it has to last. everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive.. confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor can get the real a...

Thing turns. >> if both engines go out, and it depends how quickly they go out in terms of a turn or remaining straight, but how long can the plane just basically glide for? >> david can correct me on this, but it's going to reach its own natural stability. in this airplane, it's electronic stability. it's an airplane, it's going to fly even if it doesn't have power. that's what it is meant to do. >> if one engine goes out, it naturally finds its own center. say the right engine goes out, that wing will reach a flat spot and create more lift than this one. so that weight is underneath the cent...

Our breaking news tonight. the search is back on for flight 370. and wit everyone hopes only answers. complicating the effort determining how far that plane flew after running out of few. tom forman shows us how investigators have been doing that. >> reporter: in terms of a primary search area, we're no longer talking about millions of square miles, but about 621,000 square miles. how do you break down something that big, even with a lot of assets? this is how it's done. imagine our plane coming in here over this search area in the indian ocean, and this is what they essentially do, they will ...

Partial hand shake they're calling it. >> we've had six pings where they know the plane tried to connect to the satellite, and we know they were confirmed. and then there was the seventh, the partial ping. they couldn't say, and they were quite open about it, they couldn't say why, and they couldn't say the significance of it. today, they said that they don't believe this partial ping was done by human intervention. in other words, this last ping only eight minutes after the previous one -- >> 8:11 a.m. was believed to be the last communication from this aircraft. >> the sixth ping, yes. the s...