CNN New Day April 22, 2014 10:54:00
The new ones only work about 80% of the time. so there's a lot of reasons why we might not hear the signal. the pinger only -- you have to be within a mile undert water. that's why they've had such a hard time finding it. this, instantaneously, the new ones, anywhere in the world can be detected by the satellite. the older ones you have you to triangulate in. it takes longer. it would be nice to know from the airline if they were carrying the older one or the n newer, more sophisticated ones. >> we've heard about ebbs tending the battery life on the pinger locators. do you think we're going th...
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