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Using technology to scan for underwater pings on loan from the u.s. navy, also the british sh ship, "hms echo" is in that search area now as well, using its technology to try and map the ocean floor and also try and detect any further signals from the beacons from that missing malaysian airliner. hopes were elevated, as you mentioned, earlier today by the australian prime minister, tony abbott. he's on official visit to china. take a listen to what he said earlier today. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area, and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are fro...

Of the families and friends, the passengers involved, they need to find the physical wreckage. now as for this operation, angus houston, the man responsible for coordinating in the building behind me, issuing a statement saying that the search continue in earnest. that the "ocean shield" equipped with the american towed pinger locator's scouring the waters, trying to find natumore signals more information. and there will be three plate patterns -- flight patterns dropping buoys into the water to try to get more information needed to narrow down this potential search field. now we also know tha...

154 chinese victims and their families, i would like to save any more detail for the briefing later today. >> reporter: australian authority had long said that they will not say for certain that this is in fact from missing malasian flight 370 until they see actual physical wreckage. in terms of today's search, angus houston who's coordinating the effort delivering -- issuing, rather, a statement today in which he said the "ocean shield" will continue scouring the waters, trying to pick up signals. one of the interesting thing that we noticed, according to the website marinetraffic.com which m...

How are they so confident? david soucie is back with us, author of "why planes crash." let's start with what we know, david. that's the important thing of where we are. we know we have the arc. right? >> this is from the inmarsat data. so let's go back to what that is. >> so we've got the arc. we've got the inmarsat data. in addition to that, we have this is the "ocean shield"'s path and how they've been searching for pings. >> you notice the pattern here. the arc is -- give me a color. the arc was somewhat like that. >> this shows that -- this shows why they started searching right about here...

It's dark down there. if it's in deep sit, it's going to be a tough task. wolf. >> the fifth ping we talked about so much over the last 24 hours, that now seems to be not something coming from one of those two black boxes, something else, right? >> yes, that of course the first four pings came from the ocean shield vessel towing that u.s. navy ping locator. this other thought to be ping or possible ping came from sonobuoys dropped from aircraft, dropped down about 1,000 feet, and listen in as well. they got that data back to a research area in addlaid, in south australia. they decided that is ...