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The australian defense ship "oceanfield," is en route to the search zone, towing a u.s. navy pinger device, which can detect a black box up to 20,000 feet below the surface. this section of the ocean is no deeper than 10,000 feet. tony abbott said the search would continue indefinitely, despite no solid leads. >> until we locate some actual wreckage from the aircraft, and then do the regression analysis that might tell us where the aircraft went into the ocean, we'll be operating on guesstimates, but nevertheless, this is the best we can do. >> hardly reassuring words to the hundreds of family...

Families have been given false hope. >> you know, and that's the sad thing, and as we've talked on this air for better than three weeks, you know, credible, it's the words that these folks are using, credible leads, which raises that optimism and hope, only to be let down. and there has to be a reality check, and with, you know, all the talking heads and all of the folks that are providing information, you have to use words cautiously. when i was working doing value jet and a variety of other accidents, you have to pick your words carefully, because the families are hanging on every word, and ...

Do you think it's possible we could never find any debris, greg? >> it all depends on how the aircraft broke up, alex. that's the big question here. if if it was a high-speed impact with high energy, then you fragmented the airplane into small parts, they will, you know, tend to float for a while. some of the heavier stuff, especially if it's got honey comb type merle material, will eventually get water logged and sink. if it's a slow speed and you have large pieces of the aircraft, they could float for some time. we saw that with twa 800. again, we just don't know how the airplane struck the ...

coast of australia and the objects cannot be confirmed, nor discounted as being part of flight 370 until they are analyzed. nbc's keir simmons is joining me now from kuala lumpur. so keir, what do we know about these objects and where will they take them? >> reporter: alex, they have been prolonged for these two ships, one australian, and one chinese. and that's where the hope perhaps fades a little. because it's not confirmed by nbc news. but two chinese media outlets are saying that they -- it does not appear to be related to flight 370. the china people's people daily website, acc...

>> and, greg, we have had airplanes in the new search area spot debris. we don't know whether it's from the airplane or not. but as of yet we haven't been able to actually go with a ship and retrieve any debris from the ocean. what will the sort of logistical challenges that they're running into from spotting something from an airplane to actually going and retrieving it? >> well, the one thing about spotting from an airplane now is that they're able to drop buoys, they're seeing it from the airplane rather than trying to figure out where it is on a satellite photo. that's the good thing becau...