the time they locate the fuselage here and specifically toward the tail section. do the pingers fade as each day passes? well yes but we have in this case a number of passengers we have debris and so we know we here in the right general area and i agree with jeff we have to go upstream and see where the impact was before the currents took the debris down. jeff, if those black boxes simply aren t found, will we ever have the answers we need? that would be incredible. the black boxes were not found in this crash, that would be astonishing. now, granted, i would have been astonished if you told me ten days ago this plane wouldn t be located by now. it s a little bit surprising. this is a this looks from what we know so far to be a pretty normal i mean these
we were right over it. the pingers were never picked up. clive irving no critical wreckage that would give an indication of the cause of the crash has been found. how unusual is this? well, i want to talk about the frustration i think we all feel. always searching, expensive searching. it would not be as important as it now is if we had the proper tracking system. i know we all feel action sense of that. i want to explain something. i went to london, the people who track 370, and they have this satellite system which could provide the information that we need to solve these problems. and i didn t understand how this worked. and what s important to understand about what they can do they already have equipment in more than 80% of the world s wide body fleet that could be used to transmit crucial information. that would take two forms. the first would be the moment a plane was upset or deef
airasia didn t go to the proper authorities to say can i rearrange the flight schedule? i know that s part of the ongoing investigation. david molko, thank you so much. the search takes on new urgency, of course, with each passing day. much of the focus now turns to locating the plane s black boxes by chasing down the tiny signals from the so-called pingers. and because they are battery powered, those signals are likely to just disappear few n fewer than three weeks. jeff wise is a cnn aviation analyst and paul ginsburg is an audio analyst who has worked with the fbi and cia. paul do you have any concerns that maybe those pingers didn t even activate? well these pingers are different from the emergency locater transmitters that are designed to activate on impact. the pinger activates by water. it s a water switch.
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could be separated from the pingers. they have to be sure before they leave a spot. they may not be working. they may be in a situation where they cannot be heard. a horrible side of the equation to be on. especially for the families that are now emotionally exhausted. absolutely. mary if they find the black boxes, do they generally find the fuselage? are they often in the same place? it depends on the break-up sequence. they are located near the tail, but not right in the tail. near the back of the fuselage area. if the plane happened to break there, it is possible they would have been flown free. they will not be moving around with the currents. they will remain at the bottom of the ocean. look for them near the fuselage. i don t think it is at broke-up altitude. i think it hit the water and broke up.