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Pilots. >> well, if you think about the satellite imagery that's coming in to the pilots, it's generally a guide for where they can look but the waves and the wind currents of the ocean can move debris several miles -- dozens of miles before planes can actually get there. so when you think about how these planes execute these search areas, they're given a general grid, so a box in which they have to search in. so if you think about it like mowing your lawn, you have your yard and you have to go back and forth and back and forth in a very systematic way so you can check off that grid and make s...

Here that matters because they're together and because there are small pieces. one of the concerns all along is that big pieces will tend to sink more, but all the small pieces fit the profile of things like asset cushions, things like that. they'll have to see if that's what it is. it fits the profile of what happens when planes hit the water. look at the reassembled wreckage of the tsa flight from in new york years ago. look how many small pieces were involved along with some big pieces. tragic images to look at but instructive to the searchers as they look for that debris field and try to g...

Without a confirmed piece of debris or a confirmed pinpointed location, search teams want to be ready for that, if and when it happens. they want to be ready to find the crucial black box and the pinger, that crucial piece of equipment you just mentioned that will help them do that. it has just arrived in the region. >> the u.s. navy has only two of these high-tech listening devices and one of them is now head together indian ocean to help find the missing plane. it is called a toad pinger locator. it's mission, find the plane's black box before the fingers die out. that's in less than two wee...

Coming into cnn. this is the harrowing scene as rescuers pulled a 4-year-old boy out of the mud from saturday's landslide in washington state. the little boy was stuck in muck past his knees. the mud gripped him so tightly, his pants were pulled off. the rescuers finally freed him. making the rescue effort so difficult, the sheer amount of mud and debris that came crashing down. the image on the left before the landslide and on the right after. the entire hillside now gone, taking an entire town with it. cnn's ana cabrera joins us with more. good morning, ana. >> good morning, carol. we are st...

Narrowed the window that much, it would greatly help them pinpoint where to look in the indian ocean. >> it will make all the difference in the world. i woke her up this morning to, i think, very good news. it finally may have something of substance that we could point to in holding our hands and examine to find out what really went down in this deal. i'm delighted to know that we found a debris field and i'm hopeful it is the right one. >> we keep talking about them finding debris fields, right? the ships that charge toward those debris fields that are spotted from the air via satellite, they...