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Working the numbers. the chinese sighting gives us a little bit of hope. just a little bit of hope that maybe we've stumbled on to it. but aside from that, there is still a growing momentum that we are on to it. and i do really believe that we will find it. it just may take a long time. >> les obben is an airline, airplane aficionado. this has to be mind-boggling even for you. you've been flying for decades now, right? >> almost 30 years. >> right. >> it's totally amazing. what's amazing to me, it's almost been 24 hours since we got this information about this ping that was supposedly found by...

Carried out these measurements, that heard these pings. but so far, it's been unsuccessful in reaching that vessel. it's reached out to the authorities, the relevant authorities in beijing. it still hasn't got enough information to find out what kind of pings these were. to find out exactly what depth they were at, what equipment was used, things like that. until they get that information, they say, they're not prepared to commit actual resources in terms of aircraft and ships to that location. we'll see what the coming hours bring. don? >> matthew chance in perth. thank you very much. let's d...

Practicing. >> does that make a difference to you, les? >> it's a good point. but even if he was doing that he might be doing it just for fun. and depending on where it was. i'm not sure i could draw any conclusions from the that. >> a lot of people have been looking at the pilot and co-pilot with a certain sense of concern that maybe they have something to do with it. but there is no proof or evidence right now that either of the men had anything nefarious to do with this airplane. >> it hasn't been made public at this point in time if there is. >> does this change the information on the ping...

Congratulations. thanks. >> yeah, very nice. i was asking les obben, a 77 pil 7, have you ever had an engine failure at takeoff? >> i've had to abort a takeoff at 90 knots. it was a procedure that was familiar to us. >> are you happy you have enough runway in front of you that you don't have to go airborne? >> if i had to continue, it wouldn't have been a problem either. it's part of the recurrent training process. what they just went through was a very similar thing that we practice all the time, and for me, as i had this contention early on when we discovered this simulator, or the simulator...

The effort may be hampered by weather. ships finally retrieved objects from the search area today after three weeks of looking for possible objects that never materializes. as we look at this, i wanted to be clear that no link exists so far between these objects and the missing malaysian airliner. the objects could be sea trash. they're hoping to find something. again, they could just be sea trash. let's bring in our panel of experts. nick mallos, les, miles o'brien. you were making a point earlier, i'm not sure if you dpfinished your point. i didn't mean to cut you off. you brought up a good ...