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Discussing now, hammering out a longer-term search agreement. one of the things that the malaysians had proposed is broadening out the search area. right now they're only searching a 6-mile radius around that second ping, that second acoustic detection picked up by the towed pinger locator. well, there are three other detections that were made. some analysts suggesting maybe they should do the same for those areas as well, also suggesting, perhaps, a broader search area along that arc, the so-called half handshake between the plane and the inmarsat satellite, where some authorities have said t...

The second ping that was picked up by that towed pinger locator. they're searching in a 6-mile radius around that point. now, once that's exhausted, which, again, australian officials say could happen in the next few days, they may potentially, some analysts say, turn to some of the other points where they picked up those signals. there were three other detections made. they might just broaden out the area in general, possibly along that arc, the half handshake, the so-called half handshake between the inmarsat satellite and the plane before it went down. they might search that entire area. ma...

So, if they do expand the search, how exactly would they do that? >> reporter: well, right now, they're searching in the area of the second ping detection, which was the strongest signal they detected. they're searching in a 6-mile radius around that point. now, once they've exhausted that, there's been talk of potentially, some analysts saying maybe searching in the locations where the other pings were detected. there's also been talk of maybe just broadening out the search area to search along that arc, the half handshake, so-called half handshake between the inmarsat satellite and the plane...

Captain tim taylor, a submersible specialist and a science correspondent for pbs news hour. miles, we were so optimistic so many times in the last 32 days. satellite images, plane sightings of orange objects. is this more promising than those earlier ones? do you think this is a legitimately promising sign? >> in a word, yes. what i like about this whole thing is it matches that arc. it validates the inmarsat data. it correlates with the half handshake or pink which we presume to be the last communication with the aircraft and satellite itself. >> the fact that it's taking place where we would...

That they can now go on to the next challenge and deal with that, too. >> miles, what's the bottom line for you, especially given you've been frustrated with inmarsainm lack of transparency, do you believe this is the plane? >> i'm an inmarsat believer. the fact that this location happens to coincide with that last, we call it the half handshake, half ping, whatever you like, which we have associated with the last transmission from the aircraft, that, to me, that's triangulating your data and your evidence. and so we got a ping there, and that tells me that inmarsat did an absolutely admirable...