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You haven't got the luxury of time. you've got pingers that may expire, so you've got to say, this is our best guess now. >> their best guess is a remote area more than twice the size of california. >> good morning. these are all the aircraft flying today. >> the australians take over the search. and soon after the australian ship lowers its pinger locator into the water, pings are detected. >> clearly this is a most promising lead. >> it was wow again. >> it was miraculous. they had just put the pinger locator in the water. >> i was convinced this is it. they've got the answer. it's a matter ...

Is where you want to look for the black box material. so they really should be looking at -- and i'm sure they are, looking at that raid yar ddar d me to determine where the plane was last known to be. most loss of control accidents have the plane being within 25 miles of the last known location. if the wing came off and severe icing that brought the plane down or other struck trstructur failure, it should be close to that point. we don't have a window into what they're doing at this point, but you should be dragging a pinger locator back and forth listening for the pingers attached to the bla...

It certainly would be of great assistance to get divers down there, of course safely. absolutely. >> mm-hmm. okay. and then what other kinds of technology doctor, do you think will likely be introduced to this area? >> it's almost certain that autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles will be used in this. the nice thing about those types of systems is it keeps the divers out of the water until they really are needed. you know the risk goes up for personnel, and the complexity and time lines stretch out, as you put people in the water. they'll probably be using some type of...

Black box and in this case bodies. >> chad quickly to you, maybe i'm throwing you under the bus by asking you this but currents are an issue here too, right? you've got those currents that can take debris that's floating and can even pull things under the water. >> and i think we find that in this situation. there was a lot of wind from the last-known location to where that was found. wind can push things around. there's a small current, one or two knots. not a lot, but enough to move it just that enough. so there we go with that. but something else. when you talk about the side scan sonar or ...

Even more once the search goes underwater. we know indonesia has officially asked the united states for sonar equipment. we just heard chad talk about the heavier parts of the aircraft sitting on the ocean floor. that sonar equipment will be very helpful in trying to find the heavier parts of the aircraft so that they can remove it. also the black boxes. that is so critical here in moving forward in this investigation because the black boxes are going to have lots of information, lots of answers to the questions that we have at this point. we know that the u.s. has what's called the pinger loc...