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Chief of airlines.com. and we are expecting the results of the oil sample sometime soon. what is the status of that? >> yes, don, we are in fact -- the oil came ashore and delivered down to perth yesterday. we understand it is a 24-hour period for analysis. the analysis we understand is a 24-hour period. we hope today, by 1:02 -- 12 midnight that they will learn if it is hydraulic oil or something thrown by a passing ship. but there seems to be a high level of confidence that this was not the usual marine oil. so there seems to be a level of confidence that this might be

The blewfin-21 submersible drone collected the underwater data. it completed its first full mission wednesday after two previous efforts were cut short by glitches. the bluefin has now mapped about 90 square kilometers, or about 35,000 square miles on the ocean floor. >> also they analyzed an oil sample that was spotted on the ocean surface inside that search zone. officials hope to learn if it is aviation fluid or it might be something else. families of passengers want answers. they thought they'd be getting some from malaysian authorities on wednesday, but that never happened. senior interna...

It is a plan that they have. they're not being very clear about how exactly that would happen at this point, though. >> paula hancock reporting from south korea this morning. sdmrimplt for the families and passengers aboard malaysia airlines flight 370, it's been 41 days of anguish, and still no answers. today the malaysian government announcing they will soon send a delegation to game beijing to brief the families on the search. the relatives have taken their fight to get more information on-line, posting a list of 26 questions for officials on everything from the black boxes to the air traff...

Flight 370. this means there is still no physical trace at all of this plane. no debris, no oil slick. is this discouraging to officials there? >> reporter: i think officials here in perth are confident that they are looking in the right place. and they're still very determined to see this mission through. all along, angus houston, the man responsible for coordinating this effort when referencing that oil slick and the two-liter oil sample that was being brought to shore to be analyzed, he said it was just another lead that either needed to be ruled in or ruled out. and that's really a process...

The navy says this latest problem not at all unusual. but it is driving home the many challenges involved with the bluefin mission. first dive aborted because it went into waters deeper than it was programmed to go. despite interruptions the bluefin has been able to download data. so far, no evidence of the plane. >> it's absolutely confounding to me that we've not seen a single shred of concrete evidence. >> reporter: and the bluefin-21, wolf, has been down of the third run above the ocean floor for hours now. no word of further difficulties so far. we are expecting an update in the next few ...