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Australian officials say the next step would be expanding the search area. we're also hearing today the british ship, the hms echo, is heading back to perth to get replenishment. uk officials say it will be ready to go back out to search area when it's needed. joined once again by the former fbi agent who is the founder and ceo south asia middle east consultants. also our analyst, former ntsb managing director peter goelz. let's get right to our question from a viewer. stacy asked this, it's been 50 days, surely a piece of the plane would have surfaced by now. are >> i would say their best jud...

Down. the second problem was an oil leak. the searchers say it was no big deal and they fixed it and sent it back down. in all they covered 35 square miles of the ocean floor down there. and once they've downloaded this latest data they'll send it down again. >> in terms of analyzing the data no information about what they got or what they saw on this third trip, right? >> not yet. we -- they do tend to release it to us reasonably quickly. the first two said nothing of significance in the data. the first time they went down there, that is the area they really want to search and it was cut shor...

Echo moved in that area to get more details about the situation in that as far as the ocean floor, how deep is the water, what's the topography? we know it was only 100 meters deeper than it was programmed to, so it was about 4,600 meters. that's new data the u.s. navy now has from hms echo, that that area that forced bluefin to abort was about 4,600 meters deep. they're saying they could maybe push it to 4,000. looks like that may be something bluefin will be able to handle. >> i asked to check with the manufacturer of bluefin, if they've done rehearsals, test runs with the bluefin. they had ...

Down here and in complete blackness. one advantage, quite calm at this level, very few currents or anything to affect anything down here, but controlling something down here from way up here, getting it back and forth, this is more experimental than the way we have been talking about we talk about like it's a simple thing to do. it's not simple at all. even though they have done it before, hasn't been done so many times this this is routine, michaela. >> i imagine though, like anything, when you go in to learn one thing, end up learning all sorts of other things, that this is unchartered area ...

Meters down wind and down sea from the detections picked up by the pinger locator on ocean shield. a few words about today's search. up to 11 military aircraft, one civil aircraft, 15 ships will assist in today's search. hms echo is working in the area, supporting ocean shield, providing support and analysis. the plan visual search area is about 47,644 square kilo meters. the center of the search area lies approximately 2200 kilo combleerts northwest of perth. the air and surface search for floating material will be completed in the fechlt 2 to 3 days, in the area where the aircraft most likel...