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Air space, if you will, could that have been literally flying under radar? >> well, it's a little confusing to me, wolf, because the terrain in malaysia offers up several peaks at about 7,000 feet above sea level. so if in fact he was flying at 4,000 feet above sea level, it's very likely he would have encountered what we call cumulus granite, which is what we call it in the pilot business which is a mountain. so an altitude above ground or above sea level, it's 7,000 feet, plus 4,000, which puts us at the 11,000 or 12,000, which we've already reported. these numbers have been very confusing t...

>> wolf, teams are stretching the boundaries of this technology and they have done it again. the latest signal came from something designed for maritime combat, not search and recovery. they are dropped out of a plane and descend below the surface, open up their payload and hunt for their target. these are not bombs or torpedos, they are called zosonobuoys. >> they deploy a hydrophone. >> a source tells cnn that sonobuoys were dropped from an australian pc-3 orion plane. >> it has saltwater switches that starts activating different deplo deployments. there's a bunch of gear in there. some of i...

Right. they did find some suspicious objects that were spotted from the air as ships went over, picked it up but not related to the crash at all. there were a number of storms in recent weeks over that area where the plane is thought to have gone down and they have done all of these drift patterns and worked out the movement of the ocean and that's why those ships are all concentrated about 3 or 400 miles to the west of where they are looking for the wreckage because that's where they think ne debris may have ended up. wolf? >> very intriguing that they haven't found any debris at all. michael...

Much smaller but it's still off awfully big. >> what would you say, miles? >> i agree with them. let's hope that it helps locate the aircraft much more quickly. >> peter, barbara starr reported that the u.s. was sending a supply ship to the area to help the other searchers looking for some sort of debris from this plane. what do you make of the fact that they are bringing a significant supply ship in? it seems to suggest that they are going to be there for a while. >> oh, i think they are and i think they are getting ready for the long haul. even if they do get four or five more pings, once th...

That cou this is a crucial piece of equipment that the u.s. navy has supplied at just the right time and i think it's the perfect way that the u.s. navy can contribute at this point. >> because they are going to need it. i've heard anything, tom, and let me get you into this conversation. anything from days, weeks, maybe even months, even if they -- if these pings are the real thing to actually go down there and find one or two of those black boxes. >> that's right, wolf. i hope they are bringing their long underwear because they are going to be there all winter. >> you think it could take tha...