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Of sheet metal found on the coast of australia doesn't appear to be part of the plane. do you expect more cases like this, jeffrey thomas, as time goes by? >> look, as time goes by, i'm actually certain that on the coast of western australia people are going to start picking up bits and pieces as we go along. but getting back to what you're saying, don, and backing up here, i mean, everything leads us to where these pings are. and certainly 90% of the strongest ping, we haven't found something. there's wing pu -- ping one, ping three, and ping four. we haven't even touched those areas yet. the...

Icao has done a lot of testing on satellite transmissions, on the sat-com system, how hay communicate through satellites. there's no reason it shouldn't be implemented at this point. as jeff pointed out real well, if this stuff is turned off, if the fedex box tracking system was turned off, you couldn't track that package. and this is what happened here. it was turned off. so it was either turned off or failed by some catastrophic failure. so we have to realize, we do have this now. >> jim, we just saw brian's piece. he report that these systems would cost about $100,000 a plane. they estimate...

Final question -- what rights do the family members have, that's what the families are asking. arthur rosenberg? >> bottom line, you say icao and the united nations have to enter the fray and get the malaysians to come clean. >> david? >> we need to get congress to put an ambassador back in to the icao so we can push this from the united states side to get the rights exercised that they do have. >> jim tillman? >> we need to have some method of making sure the families know how much effort is being used on their behalf. and i think it's phenomenal. >> michael kaye? >> simple, don -- transparen...

On this tragedy. >> all right. jeff, here in the u.s., jeff wise, a tweet says, "is it possible that the jet is down there and the bluefin 21 missed it?" absolutely, right? >> yeah, i mean, we don't really know what the terrain is like. we've heard from experts that if there's peaks and jagged protrusions that it could create a shadow behind which you can't see. so the short answer is perhaps. we just don't really know about what's down there. >> we'll be back with more from my experts.

Thing we know that the pings are happening. where the aircraft is related to those pings it could be a larger area than they are searching. i'm confident we are looking in the right place. >> right general area. jeff wise, experts say they are looking in the highest probability area. ten kilometer radius around the second ping signal, the ping detected for 13 minutes. could it be in this area and they are just not finding it you think? >> well, it was the highest probability area in their estimation. it no longer is the highest probability. now as you said we have 20% more to go. once that has...