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But again, we don't know what happened. >> okay. jeff. jay asks would the plane have had enough fuel to make the drop, climb, and still have enough fuel to reach the pinger location? >> to go down low, this is the idea that over the peninsula it went down to 4,000 or 5,000 feet. that would be a very fuel intensive maneuver. maybe it wouldn't have had enough. >> nicholas says the 777 is designed to glide when it runs out of fuel. i don't know what that means. >> after it runs out of fuel it will try to maintain the altitude. he is saying it will glide like a glider. >> but the ocean is so turbu...

[ inaudible ] -- perth released a statement this morning, in which he said the "ocean shield" with the american pinger towed locator is still trying to detect signals, but no mention of the british vessel, the "hms echo" that we also know is in the area. and that's perhaps interesting. we were on a website called mari marinetraffic.com, which tracks marine vessels, and showed as of three hours ago, the "ocean shield" had moved out of the search field that they are looking at for this pinger. it moved out by some kilometers, and then the "hms echo" had moved into the center. now, that's interes...

Layperson it sounds like a man made noise. do you share the optimism? >> i do not share the optimism. >> all right. explain why. >> well, there is a bunch of problems. one is that the sheer unlikelihood that they would find something on the first try. normally the way you would do it is you find the floating debris and you track it backwards to find the point of entry and then you search on the bottom of the ocean. here we just -- we were running out of time. we thought, well, the pinger is about to die. let's just throw in the tow fish and see what we can find. >> and which they did along the...

>> welcome back to our special coverage. searchers are race to find more clues this hour to find the missing airliner. 30 crew members are aboard the ocean shield right now. it is towing a pinger locator that has already found four pings. time is running out to get as much information as searchers can before the pings stop all together. i want to bring in brian todd in washington and his unique work. >> the pinger locator. on board the ocean shield from phoenix international. control rooms on board the ocean shield, their job is to do nothing but listen for those sounds and watch these monitor...

His words, very confident, the signals that have been detected are, indeed, from the plane's two black boxes. he says the challenge is to get as much information as possible before the signals end. investigators say a fifth ping is probably not from the plane. it was picked up thursday by a device dropped in the ocean from an airline before earlier signals were detected by a u.s. pinger locator towed by an australian ship. there's been no letup in the search for debris from the plane. looking at the surface, 13 ships, 15 aircraft, they're assigned to today's search. more now on what australia'...