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Bigger or heavier because that means it's going to cost you over the long run. so it's actually not the ideal frequency for under water. here's a little piece of irony. the p-3s and p-8s that are searching for this particular aircraft are outfitted with black boxes that float. >> huh. >> why not? why not have a -- you can have a redundant set of devices that stay on the surface and then you can broadcast on an emergency frequency and you could find a site much easier than trying to, you know, get sonar equipment underwater and hydrophones to listen for a ping. >> yeah. if we can, too, guys, ta...

Further north and east. further south, it's much more with more frequent storms, higher sea heights. now we're watching as this next weather system approaches across the search area which essenti essentially has been described the size of the country of poland. so really they are kind of looking all across this very broad area, very difficult. not every square inch or square kilometer across the search area is going to see bad weather. certainly enough it will hamper flights going out from the p 3s, p 8s, hercules. they'll take measures to avoid what will be a constant parade of wet weather. i...

Coordinates on those various pieces of debris, hundreds of pieces of debris, so if they have coordinates of those, i would have assumed they were in the search area that everybody was looking in, and are they now -- this new search area, is this where they believe debris is or where the actual plane may be? i assume it's where they believe debris must be, because they wouldn't be able to find the plane under water. >> reporter: they most definitely think that's a credible area for where the debris field will be. i was just out on the tarmac with the captain about to fly out one of the p-3s. wh...

Miles, you heard the commander they're sending in a second p 8 aircraft. do you believe there are enough assets on the ground, on the water, in the air, given how large the search area is? >> no. no. given the size of the search area, the current weather and expected weather -- fall into winter -- i don't think there's nearly enough assets there. there's another 10 or 11 p 8s in the u.s. fleet. there's 120 p 3s. why not send an aircraft carrier down there? the george washington is sitting in japan right now. you could put it close on station. they don't have aircraft that are ideally suited fo...

Bonus, p-8, p-3s a lot longer to search. that is the bonus about this. it's stella huge area to search, though. as we'll see it's got to involve the human eye. it involves all technology and also involves the weather as well. >> you're final flag shows us what? >> this is the key information i still don't think we have, gretchen. when that transponder ping went off we don't know, a confliction of evidence what happened that aircraft to the last transponder ping to the south. did it go across malacca strait. malaysians said we might have seen it on radar, 12,000 or 29 or climbed to 45,000. we d...