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Area here in the south indian ocean to try to find debris from flight 370. malaysian authorities say the underwater drone should finish searching the ocean floor in a week. >> there's been no sign or sounds from the pinger. it leads them to believe the flight recorder batteries have run out. we want to bring in airlineratings.com and a former fbi agent. thank you for being with us. the sub is giving good views of the seabed. listen to what he had to say. >> i can confirm the bluefin-21 captured clear and sharp images of the seabed while conducting a search in the search area. however, from all...

The tail of the flight or on the ceiling of business class? and when a plane is trying to land on the sea, can elt be activated? are you surprised the families have so many questions about the elt specifically? >> that's a product of the fact that we have so many unknowns. the elt could be in a couple of different places on the airplane. one thing it is going to do as soon as the plane goes in the water and sinks it will stop transmitting because it can't transmit through the water itself. >> okay. richard, this is for you. the next seven of the family's questions are on the black box. and thi...

What when, where or how. what they are trying to gauge from that is why do the authorities, why are they so confident? if you read back again, when they did find these or heard these pings, they said it was consistent with the black box or flight data recorder. so they want to know upon what basis can they be confident that it is a pinger from a triple seven black box. >> >> the final of the questions on protocol, we want mh-370's logbook. we want the voice recorder and require the atc audio. i think karlene, like all of us they want to know what happened in that cockpit. >> yeah, they do. her...

And when a plane is trying to land can elt be activated. are you surprised the families have so many questions about the elt specifically? >> that's a product of the fact we have so many unknowns. the elt could be in a couple of different places on the airplane. one thing it is going to do as soon as the plane goes in the water and sinks it will stop transmitting because it can't transmit through the water itself. >> okay. richard, this is for you. the next seven of the family's questions are on the black box. this is an interesting one. it says what is the sample that boeing has sent to austr...

Boeing 777 or even the exact black box mounted on mh-370. do we know that boeing sent a signal to compare with the pinger? >> no, we didn't know who sent what when, where or how. what they are trying to gauge from that is why do the authorities, why are they so confident? if you read back again, when they did find these or heard these pings, they said it was consistent with the black box or flight data recorder. so they want to know upon what basis can they be confident that it is a pinger from a triple seven black box. >> all right. the next one, a new panel, the final of the questions on pro...