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Cause the sonar to have anomalies. there's all sorts of factors. >> i read something a couple months ago where they resumed the search again saying that there was a little bit of discrepancy about where the searchers wanted to tackle next. are they all in agreement now? >> i think they are all in agreement but the search area has been continuously refined by reviewing the technical data by the inmarsat satellites. this is technology used in a very different way. it's the first time that we have used this handshake ping from the acars unit in the aircraft to try to locate the exact position of ...

Getting all the attention. this is why. the chinese were using a handheld device like this which even the manufacturers say is really not made for the conditions in which they're using it nor the way they were using it. on the other one, the ocean shield, the other location, this was being used. this is the towed ping we've talked so much about here. it's way behind the ship on a long cable moving very slowly. it is a much more robust, much more powerful, much more serious piece of equipment for this job. and this is the one that has given the pings that they're interested in. so even though f...

Image the area from where the ping came from and see, if they look for some sort of geometric wreckage, something that doesn't look natural, doesn't look like a rock, doesn't look like the ocean bottom or sand. they'll do that first. if they find interesting looking targets, they'll send something down to visually take a picture of it. this could take days to weeks, or longer even. >> yeah. officials say the pings that the u.s. navy detected thanks to that sophisticated towed pinger locator that it was near the 37.5 kilohertz which is the standard beacon frequency for those two black boxes. is...

Run out of fuel, this sounds like they're on to something extremely significant. >> absolutely no doubt. what he's talking about where the famous inmarset handshakes. we know they were at every hour except that last one, wolf. that last one was just eight minutes later. we also know from handshakes earlier that there was a handshake every hour all where there's some event. possibly major change in altitude. where the airplane tries to reconnect to the satellite. what he's saying is that that last half handshake that has always troubled us, that has always given us cause for what was it all abo...

Paints a target, gives you know good information. seeing that plane in the straights of malacca. then the inmarsat satellites which are getting this handshake ping. that's an incredibly small amount of information to base this investigation on. so we have that and basically using old-fashioned advanced algebra and geometry, the experts have been able to look and plot what they believe are these search zones. but quite frankly, at this stage of the investigation we would consider success finding just a piece of that plane. to find those so-called black boxes is highly unlikely. and most people ...