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Should answer for us? >> yeah. jeff, it's richard quest in new york. the ceo of malaysia airlines says that the batteries on the pinger were due to expire in june of this year. now, those batteries are normally -- have quite a long life span. should we be concerned that even though they're not at the expiration date, they're pretty close to it, and would they still have had sort of maximum oomph if you like? >> so our design and validation process does confirm at the end of six years that the device will still operate for 30 days. we do have design margin in there, so when we published, it was...
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