to do that remotely in the dark, that is a tough job. very, very tough. that is why we appreciate your expertise. it does seem they will be taking the search to the next level. we are excited to have you talking about that when it happens. head at this hour what happens when and if search crews do find the black boxes? who takes possession of them? we ll go live to malaysia for answers. to do it my way i got a lock on equities that s why i m type e that s why i m tyyyyype eeeee, i can do it all from my mobile phone that s why i m tyyyyype eeeee, if i need some help i m not alone we re all tyyyyype eeeee, we ve got a place that we call home we re all type e
and some of the families would like french investigators involved in this. it is up to the malasians. the black box will be under their jurisdiction and they will decide and they will get the data inside it. one would hope they would seek the help of other nations. at this point, there are other countries involved in the search. i think at the moment, we can reasonably expect the malaysians to turn to the country that is capable of doing this. what would happen after that is that they would likely take control of it themselves. and they certainly are doing investigations of downed aircraft at malasia nn where
point. it is one of two things. either there wasn t debris to start with or it has been widely disbursed or hard to find. as any kid knows, if you are into the water at a high speed and a high angle. you can be under the water when the wave surrounds you from above. quickly rob, we are talking about depths of nearly three miles here, what are the copply ka comly kating factors in a search that deep? you are operating a long way below the surface. the next time you are below a commercial aircraft and they turn the seatbelts on, look down and see if you can see a bus something large on the freeway. very, very small.
in a heck of a downpour just right there he is on the phone. a lot of people would be ecstatic over the idea of finding these devices. reporter: they, malaysia has jurisdiction. they say a normal investigation although they are not leading the search, they are leading the investigation. they say the problem is that they don t actually have experts capable of extracting the data from the black boxes. so although they are going to need to turn to other experts. they didn t say which experts they would turn to. the australians, the british the french are all involved.
the huge swath of the indian ocean the search for flight 370 is now being conducted over a much, much smaller area. the australian prime minister says he is confident that the signals that he is hearing is coming from the missing plane. i want to start some of this out. let s bring in cnn safety analyst, david one of the things that you have been trying to explain, we are still not talking about one search area are we? that is correct. what we have got are two diffdifferent numbers. the 18,000 square miles is referring to the debris field search. and the pings that are being received are more of a 500 to