that s according to commander marks with the u.s. search team, and we re going to be getting an update from him in just a moment. first, though, this failure so important, because it s on the back of what s been called the most promising lead yet, pings that have been consistent with both the plane s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. on sunday, an australian navy ship towing a u.s. pinger locator, that s the device you see in the water here, right there off the edge, the yellow device, called a t.p.l., or toad pinger locator, twice detected signals. keep in mind, the black box signal is designed to transmit 30 days under good conditions. we re now day 32 in not good conditions. the first detection lasted two hours and 20 minutes, the second just 13 minutes. these pings were detected 375 miles northeast from pings friday and saturday. from everything we understand, by the way, these things can t all be to the same plane, these two situations will not both be
bay, rhode island. outfront now, president of duquesne s c-com, which manufactured the pingers attached to the plane. cnn aviation analyst miles o brian, and richard quest also join me. let me start with you, commander marks says his optimism is fading. they haven t been able to reacquire this signal after about two hours and 20 minutes and 13 minutes, two separate times. obviously, i know you ve been talking to them about the data they ve gotten. are you as are you losing hope, too, or not? well, we love to see them reacquire the signal. obviously, that would definitely help us continue looking at more data, but the initial data that was shared with us looked very promising. and, anish, when you talk about the initial data being shared, i guess this is the question, how specific is this data? you can imagine if there s a point under the water where perhaps a plane might be and you pick it up off of a signal, if you were able to chart that in
and then they have to get the autonomous vehicle into the water. and dealing with three dens of conditions, also, right? and time is against them. because we re way beyond the 30 days of the battery life. until they narrow the operation, they can t drop one of those submarines down and scan the ocean floor if the battery stopped. do me a favor, we re going to be checking in with commander marks of u.s. 7 fleet. he s going to be talking about what s on board. are we going to talk about seismic air gun? it may come up. however, two other big pieces of news that deal with the flight path. one is confirming what they believe they knew. another one is another piece of information. take us through. there are two new pieces of information. the first is which way the aircraft flew. we now know at least it s
marks is going to join us live. he it s one thing if malaysia says they are optimistic and then australia and when the u.s. navy says that they are cautiously optimistic that they have located the two black boxes and they have said that, we ll get the latest from commander marks. coming up, it s been an agonizing month in limbo for the families on board flight 370. how they are reacting to these new signals coming up next. when folks in the lower 48 think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america.
that is about where haixun 01 has been doing its work. what all we ve been looking at, australian officials are saying it s unlikely, the source is of these two pings that are picked up are the same. what do you think? yes. i mean, some people are dealing diplomatically courteous, saying some of this could have followed through the deep waves through sound travel. but angus houston sort of discounted it. they do seem to be different events. the focus of attention is on ocean shield and what ocean shield heard, the two acoustic events. let s talk about ocean shield and what they re dealing with next. show this pinger locator and how it is going about its business underneath the surface. when we talked to commander marks, chris did earlier this hour, he s talking about the various depths that they had put