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Welcome back from the cnn center in atlanta. new vems developments in the search for flight 370. the objects retrieved from the indian ocean yesterday turned out to be mostly fishing equipment and not any debris from the plane. 11 ships and 10 planes scoured the area today without finding anything connected to the plane. an australian ship carrying a ping detector also set sail to join the search. with us here right now is kit darby, retired airlines pilot, flew for 30 years, president of kit darby aviation consulting. thanks for coming in. . >> thank you, sir. >> what do you make of the revis...

Reporting, we have the transcript and they have not corrected the belief that the final few words were already, good night. today we are told the final words were actually good night malaysian 370. the ship carrying a ping detector departed today en route to the search zone. 3:00 in the morning their time. they are working on borrowed time. the pinger could run out of batteries next week. >> typically the batteries last for 30 days. usually they last longer and that's what we are trying to find. what is critical is that the teams that are out there searching if are the debris get good position...

Area? >> this is the best guess based on what boeing has said. they'll before involved to estimate how far it could go and how fast it would be going, and looking at the radar data, the straights of malacca, and after that we're totally blind. we can just hope it continued going at that pace. >> that's what they're banking on. they have no other data to work on. they now how fast it was going because they have a radar and a radar image. so as long as no pilot or anyone else ever changeed the intoed until i went into the drink, they're probably in the right area, probably. >> probably. so when ...

Fresh in everybody's mind in the area, the local people in the area that may use those waters that can help us in the future. >> there is an australian ship that will soon be on the way to the general area where these satellite images are picking up debris. that ping detector, do you think they'll get there in time? >> 30 days is what the law says that the pinger has to continue to work. it could be 33, it could be 35 days so we could get lucky with a little cushion and help us have a bigger window to search for this recorder, but we'll have to wait and see. >> john goglia, many thanks. >> tha...