cosmopolitan type of barnicle, if you will, the everyday barnicle, that really is kind of endemic across the entire indian ocean, so unlikely that there may be anything specific. so you know we have one tiny piece of evidence to now pretty much give us a pretty good clue that, in fact mm-370 went into the indian ocean. that was a suspicion all along, but we need the black box recorders. the flight data recorder. the cockpit voice recorders. and those are still most likely at the bottom two to three miles down underneath the surface of the water, and if you believe the australian search commanders, probably 1,it 200 miles off the coast of australia. they have a herculean job to find them as they ve been working this for 15 months. you know by the way, one lastpoint, there s been some reporting out there in the last 15, i should say 15 hours or so 24 hours, suggesting that there s new information to which says that this plane was intentionally crashed. that s pretty much been the
back-channel source information that s not been released officially from the government. so i m suspect or skeptical like we all are about the whole thing and then i m also skeptical, then, because once you accept this you re saying the plane did this, it went down, it was avoiding indonesia. they are attributing all kinds of motive to the pilot when we don t even know if the front end is true in the first place. i m going to have all of you stand by. we ve got a lot more to assess coming up this hour. up next, air crews are getting ready for a new round of search flights right now but in a new twist, sonobuoys dropped by planes are bringing dramatic underwater results. we ll speak with one of the search commanders coming up live. and investigators are now sure who was speaking in the last radio transmission coming from the cockpit. so what took them so long to find out? what impact will this have on the investigation? mine was earned in korea in 1953.
and i thought it was very important that you be informed about it because it s like the visual search. we are dealing with with identification of weather an acoustic event has anything to do with the downing of the aircraft. does it represent that the aircraft went into the sea at this location or not? so he s talking about acoustic events from the chinese ship haixun 01 and one from ocean shield. with us is alan diehl, a former accident investigator. alan, what needs to happen now? for the search commanders, for the people out there, what s