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Joe johns is in kuala lumpur, but now, down under, michael what is the very latest? >> reporter: hi to you, bill. yesterday after completing around six hours of its mission, the bluefin-21 went below its programmed operating depth of 41 meters. they did get data when they were down there, that is six hours of data. they have examined it and say it really turned up nothing. but it was the first time out and they did say it performed technically well. they will try to reprogram it so the software allows it to go even deeper, now that they made the discovery on how deep it is down there. as you p...

We have the latest on today's search. david? >> yes, good morning. >> as you said the robotic blue submarine was in waters nearly 3 miles deep. the u.s. navy which operates the equipment warned they could take weeks or months to map the area. investigators believe the remnants of the plane are. it's the first mission yesterday was after it exceeded the operating depth. today they move to a shallower area to search. deeper waters available to the search teams. also today 11 planes were sent out to search any wreckage. so far they haven't resorted siting anything. they took into account ocean

Meters above the seafloor. now, one condition that causes it to abort its dive is if it reaches its maximum operating depth of 4,500 meters, that's what happened in this case. >> the limited data from the unmanned sub has been analyzed, and nothing found. as for the question mark over who exactly handles those black boxes when and if they are found, malaysia is now promising to share any information that is retrieved from those black boxes. but they say custody isn't actually that important. >> i don't think it's important who gets custody as far as i'm concerned. and this is my own personal p...

Thin submarine. the sub was pulled back to the surface six-hours into the search of the missing malaysian airline flight 370. david is live from bangkok, thailand with the latest on that. go good morning, david. that has proved to be the case. they sent a robot submersible overnight to try to locate the plane. they had a problem once it went beneath the operating depth of 3 miles and had to be brought back to the surface. the blue fin 21 from the u.s. was sent to map out an area of 500 square miles. this is the area where four signals were detected which they believe are consistent with those ...

Angus houston must have seen some map but there can be crevices and gullies. and the fact they are tracking the terrain. they are keeping 30 meters above the sea floor. if the sea floor takes a dive so does the vehicle. >> there is a crunch depth for the vehicle. the pressure could -- >> my understanding is that 4500 is their comfortable operating depth and they could get down to 4900. but you don't want to go near that boundary. >> it does raise the question whether they will be experiencing this kind of aborted mission frequently. >> it does. and i don't know if david knew how deep it was. a...