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Operation. >> richard, where do you think this investigation stands? you've been covering it from right at the beginning. they heard the pinging going on for two hours from one box, they think another box another 15 minutes. in order to detect those pings you've got to be a mile or two maximum away. even if they are not hearing these pings again, they've got to be relatively close to this area. >> that's the slight unknown. the exact distance and the exact size of the search field, if they never hear another ping again, the amount of data they've already got from the criss-crossing of the two ...

To pick up these pings. but a slow process. and the ships will be sailing very slowly. only about 5-kilometers an hour. in order to, you know, cover a detailed area of the ocean bed. he they are covering about 240-kilometers, a tracking area of 240-kilometers today in the hope they might pick up something. but so far, there is no news whatsoever of any kind of success in this area. >> roger, thank you. >> thank you very much. greta. >> and the black box battery can and will die at any minute now. who do searchers know where to take the pinger locater to get the best shot at finding the black b...

The emergency the pilots were placing and the inconsistent information they were getting. there was a great deal of information readily available. here we don't know whether the information was unavailable because it was disabled or turned off or due to electrical failure or some other cost. we just don't have that kind of information. >> let's talk about the apparatus or assets out there. right now there is incredible state-of-the-art technology being used searching for sonic transmissions and a giant under water microphone will listen for the pings and an under water robot will scour the oce...

>> the pinger is transmitting a very high frequency signal. it does have mechanisms to translate the high frequency sounds to a noise and register it. when we heard it, it is like ping, ping, ping. you can't hear it if it is in the room. it is so high frequent sichlt it has to be done slowly and at a distance of no more than a couple of kilometers away from it. the difficulty is the depth of the water versus the topography under water, what the actual seabed or ocean bed is looking like. put all this into perspective, they might as well look for it using the pinger. frankly, the thing is going...

To pick up these pings. but a slow process. and the ships will be sailing very slowly. only about 5-kilometers an hour. in order to, you know, cover a detailed area of the ocean bed. he they are covering about 240-kilometers, a tracking area of 240-kilometers today in the hope they might pick up something. but so far, there is no news whatsoever of any kind of success in this area. >> roger, thank you. >> thank you very much. greta. >> and the black box battery can and will die at any minute now. who do searchers know where to take the pinger locater to get the best shot at finding the black b...