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Give more information. because what they appear to be doing is moving this box around and not really explaining why. so they have to explain why to us. that's an interesting question. >> david gallo, i want to bring you in here. as they're moving these assets around and changing the search area, now they have the towed pinger locater out there. how confident are you that the batteries in the black box are even still working, even still pinging? >> that's anyone's guess, john. here's the thing about that. going over an area and not hearing the pinger doesn't mean that the aircraft is not there....

You have underwater because time is running out. so i would do exactly the same thing. >> you also, sylvan, say that you think that this is all right now obviously based on data, the analysis of the data tax . do you think there's more data out there and do you think there needs to be a better analysis? >> that's a very good question. because in the case of air france, on one hand we had too much data. on the other hand we had too little data. the idea was to backtrack the data that could help us on the ocean as opposed to the air problem. so we sort of went through the data and then found new...

You here. the towed pinger locater. in the water as we speak, searching for these pings from the black boxes. what do you think the chances are that we'll find anything? >> well, in case of the air france, we had two towed pinger locaters. we went over the whole area. and the water is so deep that you have 10,000 meters of cable behind the ship. so it's very difficult to narrow down the position >> it doesn't sound like you're very optimistic. is this just a case where it's better than nothing? >> i mean, in this case you have to try everything, everything. and especially the pingers are going...

That helped us narrow down the retro drift and the positions of the debris field. >> david it certainly doesn't sound in this case like it is case of too much data, does it? >> not where we need it, right. again this comes down to the confidence of that last known position, that swath that we moved to that richard quest showed, has talked about moving up that arc. if we can be confident about that box as big as it is then we need to find ways to whittle that down. but if that's the box, and we believe the plane's in that box, we can find it and we should find it if it's in that box. >> david g...

Do they have to explain why to us? that's an interesting question. >> david gallo, i want to bring you in here. as they're moving these assets around and changing the search area, now they have the towed pinger locater out there. how confident are you that the batteries in the black box are even still working, even still pinging? >> that's anyone's guess, john. here's the thing about that. going over an area and not hearing the pinger doesn't mean that the aircraft is not there. the tpl is useful if you do hear something. if you don't hear something not that useful. i think at this point, know...