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you said, day 33 of another big effort. and let me ask you, sir. i m just curious. this have been some reports about the pings and where they re looking. obviously, when you look at where the ships are positioned, one at the northern end where the australians heard the ping and one at the southern end where the chinese heard the ping, obviously those are thousand miles apart. have they given up on the chinese-reported pings? i think that the most recent ping through the australian vessel, the ocean shield is where the main focus is going on. in terms of the air search, we re looking in a slightly different area, because we re looking for debris on the surface. so the surface vessel search and the air search will probably be in slightly different areas. when you say slightly different, are you is that sort of where you would have expected there to be drift from where that pinger is located, or are you actually looking in a different area that would imply if the plane went down,
many thousands of miles where this plane could have been, that this is all relative to that narrow. but this is of course thousands of miles of shifting. will the search area move again? matthew chance is in perth tonight. matthew, what s the very latest as you re there? they re getting ready to go out and search. and i know the planes are leaving from the base behind where you are now. yeah, they re going to start leaving within the next few minutes apparently, erin. the very latest is we ve had a media release from the australian-led search effort, which is a multinational effort, of course. and they have given us a few details. they re saying that excuse me, the search area has been narrowed just slightly over the course of the past 24 hours by a thousand square miles. it s now down to 29,000 square miles, which of course is still a vast area. we ve been told that the focus of the efforts at the moment under the surface of the indian ocean are those two areas that you mentioned
haystack, but at that stage we didn t even know which haystack. i think we ve got a much clearer picture around the areas we need to concentrate on. and those will be the areas that will be associated with both the search on the surface and the debris search by aircraft today. all right. thank you very much, commander. we appreciate your taking the time. commander mcevoy. and richard quest, as you just saw is with me. here is the question. as you just raised the point, there has been no evidence at all. obviously, there is all kinds of satellite, but there has been no physical evidence. this plane may not be there. the only evidence are the pings. the satellite data is, you know, corroborative if you like. that s circumstantial evidence, i beg your pardon. you have the satellite data which is circumstantial. and now you ve got the pings which is corroborative, but they can t get it again. right. now just bring up that map again of the search. the 20 some odd. i tried to count
we can already hear. right, we re actually listening to the pings pick s l ones picked up by the actual plane. this is what a ping sounds like. lately we re hearing about high frequency pings with ever-increasing frequency. the pings detected pinger locaters. no new ping detected. until we got flooded with talk of acoustic events, a ping was something in a subset on the hunt for red october. it makes a ticking sound like a metronome. just with a moist paper towel listen to it activate right away. and it is not the sound of marine life unless they happen to be wearing watches. it is not a whale with a