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Auv, right team, a very talented team and the right plan. the plan they have chosen is they have said okay. we have the pinger. that's the spot. we are going to throw the dart in to the bull's eye close to it. no need to go to a broad area and search using multiple vehicles where you need more people and support to pull that off. it may be plan b but it is too soon in the process to think of that yet. >> that's something houston said when he first announced they were going down. angus houston, the head of the community search organization. he was asked again and again what do you do if you don...

Miles and telling a pinger locater two and a half miles down, you have to be within a couple of miles in order to locate it. the question is the wreck near the pinger locater? certainly the box is there. so yeah, i think we are within a couple of miles, the 2 1/2 hour transmission they received is seems like good news in terms of trying to locate this thing. >> let's talk about flight 447, a similar air incident. look at two pictures from air france 447. this is a look at the debris field. this is a clear picture of the engine on the ocean floor. can we eventually expect the same type of pictu...

That i really can't see any other options. >> so do you think they're searching in the right area, jules? >> well, if they heard the pinger, i mean, the answer is yes. i mean, i spent a bit of time looking into the specifications of the manufacturer of the pinger. and they say well, you can hear us within two miles. and we go to the manufacturer of the towed pinger locater, you realize you're within two miles of that. you have to be within a couple of miles of the pinger to recognize it. is it near the pinger locater? certainly the box is there. i think we're within a couple of miles, the two ...

We can reverse engineer and find out what happened. as with the titanic, the wreck will have the last word. >> jean casarez, new york. >> all right, jean, we appreciate it. 102 years ago later, what happened to the titanic still fast natuominatature -- fast na people worldwide. he was part of the team that found the titanic at the bottom of the atlantic. thank you for joining us, do you think the search is being done in the right manner? >> thank you for inviting me first, don, yes, i think so. titanic didn't have a pinger on it that we could listen and be guaranteed within a few miles of the ...

A marathon pace, it's going to be long, slower and there may be a much different equipment set that's brought in. >> mike deane, adiplomatic man, rob. suggesting, australia, we've got tools, ask us and we'll bring them to you. what do you think? >> i think if it goes beyond this phase, i think if these potential pinger locations pan out to be inaccurate or nonexistent, then the next phase is more broad scale search along the southern end of the original calculated aircraft track. so that would mean using one, two or more towed sonar assets following along the flight path and mowing a much bigg...