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>> yeah, erin, that latest ping coming from a sonar buoy. these planes that have been out there, this is really an added tool to the ship that has been towing around that ping locator. what the planes do, they can carry up to 84 of those things. and they've been peppering the ocean near the ocean shield vessel where which picked up of course the four pings since last saturday. these buoys drop a line a thousand feet down into the ocean, and they listen. well, it seems one of them got a hit, a ping within the frequency range. all the data recorder. and according to researchers, has the potentia...

Explanation of what happened after the boeing 777 turned west and crossed over the malaysian peninsula. malaysian sources tell cnn the plane disappeared from military radar for about 120 nautical miles, indicating that it might have dipped to an altitude between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. and wolf, a dozen planes and a dozen ships will again be scouring the ocean. the "ocean shield," the vessel that has been towing the ping locator has been joined by a british naval ship in the area where the pings were heard. it's called the "hms echo" and is trying to find signs of wreckage below. there are other...

So the priority of this search operation right now, very much rests with the ocean shield, the australian vessel equipped with the american operate d ping locator. still scouring the waters trying to pick up any more detections. the more detections they make, the more they are able to narrow down a potential search field to try and find the source of that signal. and once they do that, they will then deploy the bluefin 21 which is an american provided autonomous underwater vehicle capable of searching the ocean floor for actual wreckage. and that's really what they say they need at this point ...

Morning. days after u.s. equipment on an australian ship picked up signals, signals that could be from flight 370's black boxes, australian officials announced overnight they haven't heard anything else since. there was hope the sounds could lead them to the missing jet. now they're waiting to put an unmanned vehicle in the water until they hear the pingers again. today more than a dozen planes, 14 ships criss-crossing an area roughly the size of south carolina, trying to find anything at all from the jet, missing now for 32 days. erin mclaughlin is live in perth with the latest for us. good m...

In very deep oceanic water, nothing happens fast. >> reporter: now, at the moment, the "ocean shield" is currently in the area where it detected the signals. what they're trying to do now, use that towed ping locator provided by the united states to detect possibly a third signal. if they get that third signal, their hope is they'll be able to triangulate a narrow search area in which they can deploy the bluefin 21, also provided by the united states. it's an unmanned autonomous vehicle, able to go underneath the water. the hope is that they will find some signs of physical wreckage. they say ...