the single bluefin-21 sonar scanner has now covered about 95% of the area the investigators have called the most likely possible resting place for the boeing triple 7. when it is done we re just learning where the next focus position may be. remember, bluefins have been on more than a dozen missions. it has yet to find anything. we have yet to see anything, not one single image from the robot sub. and flight 370 took off with 390 people on board. several satellite connections and a handful of possible sonar pings, there were no signs of the airliner. the answers will come. this is for now the longest running aviation mystery of our time. tonight, we ll look at some of the new approaches that investigators may find. first, miguel marquez in perth, australia. the bluefin has nearly completed the first phase of the entire area, focused around the
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whereas far as we know the bluefin-21 is now about seven hours into mission number two. it was around this time yesterday that the subhad to abruptly abort the mission after completing only a third of what it had hoped to do. will it be able to continue a full scan as it continues to search for flight 370? tonight, the robot sub that may be the best hope of finding malaysia airlines flight 370 is trying to finish its second mission after its first was abruptly cut short. the device known as bluefin-21 did not find the data recorders or wreckage and was forced to return to the surface less than a third of the way into its mission monday. the sub found itself in water too deep to operate. this is an area that is new to man. reporter: the extreme depth took searchers by surprise and