telling cnn that the pings are not from the black boxes. likely not from the plane s black boxes, david. but then you also have the u.s. navy coming out and saying that view is speculative and premature and the australian search authority is saying that they aren t adds cs confident it as well. what is going on here? i tell you what s going on. it s incredibly infuriate for us, let alone for the families of what they re going through right now. my question is when did they know this? i ve been hearing this all along, which took us to having to do our own destructive testing on some of the pingers ourselves to try to see if we could replicate this 33.3 kilohertz frequency and we could not. i m extremely disappointed because what this means to me is that someone knew early on these were not from the aircraft. we learned over a month ago from our own test that it was not in the aircraft.
the only thing we don t know is north or south. that could open up more. i think we re going to get information about that. back to mary s point. they did have a choice. they had the choice of putting the right tool out much, much sooner than right now. now they re just negotiating. they may be three months or more before we see the right tool out there. if they knew this information was wrong they should have stopped with the or continued even with the bluefin but brought some other tools in if they knew these pings were not from the airplane. i disagree with mary on that point. go ahead, mary. it s back up one more thing. the reason they had precious few days. remember, by time they went out to look they were two days before the batteries would allegedly die. the reason it took so long to get out there in the first place is not the fault of the united states navy or the australians. it s the fault of the malaysians whose military sat on data that they had for at least four days
again. will ripley, thank you. let s get perspective on all the new developments and what this means with cnn s aviation analyst mary schiavo and david soucie. mary, what does this news mean? it s dn described by a couple of people to me as devastating. certainly it s devastating to hear. i think what it means in terms of the search is they ve done what they can do with the area. one of the thanes they can say that the pings are from the black box cess the u.s. navy has finished their search in the area. what this means effectively is they still come back to the only thing they have which is the inmarsat data which put them in this location in the first place. that makes that a little bit more shaky but i think they will continue to pursue search areas based on those inmarsat, as we ve been calling them handshakes. let s talk about the what s next in just a second, but on where things stand right now, we have a deputy director of ocean engineering for the u.s. navy
report. the full investigation, that whole review not expected until later this summer, can only imagine what more we ll learn then. michelle, thank you very much for starting us off this morning rnlg also breaking overnight. another blow to families hoping for any sign of flight 370. the agency leading the search says the plane is not in the 330-square mile search area off of western australia where that bluefin submersible has been looking. that s where pings had been detected last month. but really stunning about face, that promising lead, as they described it, is now in doubt as well. a u.s. navy official telling us the pings were not from the plane s black boxes at all. will? kate, certainly a punch in the gut for the families of flight 370 who this whole time had been thinking that there was a promising lead with these possible pings detected in the southern indian ocean. this is the area the bluefin-21 has been spending hours and days
searching. the bluefin-21 s mission is not now over. that search has turned up nothing. the australians confirming overnight that they do not believe that mh-370 s final resting place is in that several hundred square mile area where the bluefin has been scouring and searching for closure for these families. at the same time, the u.s. navy telling our very own renay marsh that in fact the pings detected in early april may not have even come from an airplane black box but perhaps could have been caused by the search ships in that area. it s a stunning about face and certainly a big change from the cautious optimism that you and i saw in western australian when searchers at one point thought they might just be days from finding this wreckage. now we know they have to wait another two months before private companies come into this area and begin the new massive phase of this search that could take up to a year. they re going to scour 60,000 square miles, kate. meanwhile, all these familie