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The real issue is getting to some positive identification of the aircraft wreckage so the next phase can begin. crowd need to find the debris field and backtrack to the likely place where the air craft originally impacted the ocean. once you get to that general area, then you can start the next part, searching the ocean bottom. >> your company helped facilitate that for the air france crash? >> that's correct. the french organization asked to us come in initially right after the plane went down to do some quick assessments. we specialize in statistical review of material and data. we build too...

Although as difficult as that was, this is going to be, you know, five, ten times harder because of the location and because of the adverse weather conditions. you basically use a technique called basian search. you basically take lots of information and you keep refining where you think the area is. and then you have to, what we call, mow the lawn. you are really looking at very, very small parts of the ocean bottom in high detail. and it can be done, but it takes persistence and it takes time and it's not easy. but it can be done. but that's what you sort of drop back to, after the pingers s...

Have experts looking at it, but at two weeks, we're really at the limit of the state of the operational science with ocean models, so it's going to be difficult to get anything in a confined zone, but i know the experts are going to do anything they can to lead to the finding the wreckage, both on the surface, and most importantly, on the ocean bottom, so we can recover the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. >> that's key, thank you for your insight today. we appreciate it. i want to take you now to ian williams in australia. he's been covering the search for many, many days now....

Like. and they narrow an area which is what we've been talking about all along. this area needs to be narrowed. and within that narrow area, then you'd have a debris field. and that's when you bring something called nauv. autonomous unmanned vehicle. here is what this vehicle looks like and what it does. unmanned probes like this have searched the ocean for plane wreckage before. it took years of sweeping the ocean bottom, but it found a downed plane carrying italian fashion designer vittorio misoni, his wife and four others off the coast of venezuela last year. it helped find an air france fl...

Miles under water. we're talking about incredibly deep ocean. so what type of equipment do you bring in to find the black box because if there is only one thing you're going to find to find out what happened the flight data recorder that they need to find? >> once they've got a better idea of where the starting point is to find the debris field that the aircraft is at the bottom of the ocean. then you bring in your ship that is loaded with your underwater search and recovery equipment. that would be your auv, your atonmous underwater vehicle or bring inside and scan sonar. both systems are ava...