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We know at 2:20 a.m., that plane made a turn. after that urn it, there were three pings in rapid succession. they believe that those rapid pings have to do with a rapid change in altitude. that may be why those pings were generated. so with this final ping, which was a failed hand shake, it may be that that too was generated by a rather rapid change in altitude, which, of course, could mean the plane's final path into the ocean and could give them a great lead in terms of pinpointing where the plane went in. one other hint. there has been a lot of controversy, about whether this is a ghost pla...

To connect. >> and les abend, we talked to miles o'brian in the 8:00, he suggested that partial ping could have been from an electrical surge or even the plane hitting the water, which would really help investigators zero in on an area to search. >> i contemplated that for a little bit. what i thought it might be was the fact that the last engine shut down or flamed out, because of fuel exhaustion, which would have -- this airplane is designed to deploy a ram air turbine, which operates one system of hydraulics, the other of electrics. that deploys that automatically, which would probably not ...

>> if these various pings show a radius of x miles where the plane could be, on the sixth one, you've got up to an hour out of it where it could have been. but a ping only eight minutes later, you can drill down and prove the significance of that. and suddenly you are honing in on a much smaller area to search. it will still be huge, but it will be a significant improvement. >> family members in beijing today protesting out in the streets, wanting journalists to see them being held by back authorities trying to get to the malaysian embassy to protest what they say is some sort of a coverup.

Other incident. >> reporter: ghost plane, zombie plane, plane without a brain. it would begin with an alarm, could be fire or sudden decompression. pilot puts it into a very steep decent. at the same time the aircraft begins to turn. the idea is you want to get this plane heading back to some airport. so we would head back to kuala lumpur or the closest airport. but you're descending, because you only have so much oxygen. the passengers have had the mask flop down in front of them, they only have about ten minutes. so you have to get down to an altitude where everyone could breathe, 12,000 or ...

Voice recorder was too charred to offer anything of value. >> it flew in with such force, and the fire was so intense, that nothing could have survived that impact. >> reporter: if the black boxes are ever recovered from malaysia airlines flight 370, investigators still may have questions. the cockpit voice regarder starts recording over itself after two hours. so the moment something went very wrong may remain a mystery. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> david gallo joins me now. he co-led the search for air france flight 447. he's he's with the woods hull oceanographic institution. with that cra...