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Was somebody on board trying to avoid radar? no one knows. i want to bring in our correspondent. the hub of the search operation and jim clancy is in kuala lumpur. the navy ship hms echo is on the scene. tell us what happened. >> for the past several hours, according to the british ministry of defense, it has been on the scene and started its work trying to verify what the chinese say they detected with pretty ordinary, some pings on two separate locations, two hours apart and 12 hours apart as well which might not have anything to do with the missing malaysian airliner but enough for a signif...

Chinese ship. a specially equipped british ship has now arrived at the spot where the two pulse signals were picked up. and on board the hms echo, high-tech detect has occurred. northeast of there, the australian ship ocean shield is continuing its investigations, trying to figure out the source of a curious, quote, acoustic event. and today another question is emerging. did the plane try to avoid indonesian airspace? a senior malaysian government source has come out with an explosive allegation that flight 370 apparently steered a suspicious course to avoid indonesian radar. for the very late...

A british navy ship called "hms echo" is now in the area where the chinese ship detected two audio signals. the echo is equipped with a state-of-the-art sonar that can map the ocean floor. as you know, two pinger detectors picked up sound within 350 nautical miles of ooch other. >> the hmo heck co-in the general vicinity of where the chinese patrol ship detected the pinging sounds on friday and saturday. the goal is to try to find that sound again and either confirm or rule out that it is from the black boxes belonging to flight 370. now, keep in mind this area is different from where the aust...

How many -- it's going to take 11 hours just to get the thing down to where it can scan the ocean floor. so once it gets there and they get it in the water, it's going take a day to get it down at the floor. >> and it's all depends on which of the assets. which of the assets has got it. so we know echo is now on-site. >> right. >> and can deploy that which it's got. but if they have to wait for ocean shield, ocean shield is still doing its own business 300 miles away. so if they declare that this is, you know, a valid thing and they want to get something down into the water, it will all depend...

The united states. to update us on the search. we understood, we heard from him last evening at midnight. it was midnight that he came on, right? we heard from him last evening saying that the echo had heard something, that the ocean shield possibly had heard something. there were three different events, one by a chinese ship and one by the australian ship. and that they were possibly going to move the australian ship in the vicinity where the chinese ship had heard the ping earlier. so the information we have now is that. and you said they also had -- some of the satellite coordinates in orde...