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Going to be successful. >> reporter: while the multinational investigative team may have cancelled its day-to-day search the chinese navy is continuing to map the ocean floor to get a head start to whatever private contractor takes over. 153 of the 239 passengers on board flight 370 were chinese. complicating matters, the bombshell revelation to cnn this week by one of the u.s. navy's top salvage experts who says the pings believed to be from the airplane's black boxes were likely not from the plane at all. >> if that black box were nearby, we would have picked it up on the imagery data. >> re...

More breaking news tonight, day after day, for weeks we watched as the hunt for malaysian airlines flight 370 was searched for, and pings were detected, pings believed at the time to be from the cockpit voice recorders. day after day, no triple 7. well, now, we're beginning to get some idea of why. and it is surprising. details from renee marsh. >> reporter: it was the most promising lead and now we know it is false. new information the u.s. navy has concluded these four underwater signals were not from the missing plane's black boxes. >> from the u.s. navy standpoint, these sounds were most l...

America versus australia in the battle over the missing plane tonight. the deputy prime minister of australia tried to defend his work. >> we are still very confident that the resting place of the aircraft is in the southern ocean and along the seventh ping line. >> the u.s. navy's though, deputy director of ocean engineering has raised a red flag. >> i would have to say at this point based on all of the imagery data we have collected and looked at, if that black box were nearby, we would have picked it up. >> so should the pings be trusted or not? it's a crucial question, because it's been 50...

Point, based on all of the imagery data that we've collected and looked at, if that black box were nearby, we would have picked it up. >> reporter: we're now told the pings could have been from the search ship itself or other electronics, this as bluefin-21 completed its 28th and final mission on wednesday. the search will resume in august when private companies take over. meantime, we're learning of a potential new lead. cnn has learned underwater microphones detected a sound that could have been the plane crashing. the united nations nuclear test ban organization has a network of 11 hydropho...

Bids coming in. you would end up with $1.99 billion game for donald sterling in all of this, if indeed the microsoft ceo is buying the clippers. another stunning admission that the country leading the flight for malaysia 370 says it's been looking in the wrong spot. >> the safety bureau has now advised the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detection disease be considered complete. and in his professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place for mh 370. that. >> comes on the heels of the u.s. navy bombshell. an official telling cnn the underwater pings thou...