with some, some good news. good morning. reporter: that s right. some progress in the search for what s left of lion air flight 610 with indonesian officials ahead of the national travel safety board now saying that they are picking up a series of pings at 3.7 kilihertz, giving an assurance that this is coming from the underwater beacon of the flight data recorder, the black box. saying they believe one of the navy ships out there, one of a virtual armada of virtually 40 ships involved in the search and recovery effort has located what they believe to be the main part of the fuselage of the boeing 737 max 8 airline which was less than a year old when it plummeted from the sky minutes into its flight from jakarta s main airport on monday morning.
on malaysia airlines flight 370. exactly one year after the plane disappeared, a new report from investigators gives very little new information about the flight. no word on what may have caused the plane to suddenly disappear off the radar like that. no word still on where that airliner might be. there is one new detail though. the battery for the flight data recorder s underwater beacon expired more than a year before the plane went missing. that news could make finding the airplane much more difficult. anna koran in kuala lumpur joins us live. almost adds insult to injury the fact that one of the batteries had already expired. the airline saying they have checked all the planes now to make sure they all have batteries in them. if anything, this report doesn t comfort families, but show real incompetence on the part of the national carrier. i think as far as the battery incident goes, yes.
they re parts abdul knows very well. measuring 88 parameters, which is the most ever. reporter: he s the ceo of a company in ft. lauderdale that buys commercial planes, then refurbishes and sells the parts. right now they re pull eight part this boeing 777 flown by malaysia airlines, the same make and model as flight 370. this cockpit recorder is identical to the one that could tell investigators why and how mh-370 disappeared. they consist of three parts. you ve got the element which records and the power unit in the back. reporter: and the underwater beacon. there is a sensor on the sides here that are activated by water. and once those are activated they will send out a ping signal that will be picked up by tracking devices that will look for these specific pings. reporter: in just a week and a half, that ping will likely go
help me this morning. there are two things introduced into the search. the malaysians are asking for help in different ways. they are asking for help me with this, the pinger locater hydrophonesking for. what is this? it s a device designed to specifically key in on 340 megahertz signal coming from the pingers. the pingers with the black box. that s what they emit. they have to here it. they use these devices to hear it. what s pinging is underwater beacon. it s attached to the black box, designed to stay with it. just as hardy and can sustain just as much damage and gs as the box itself. once it s underneath there, it sends out a signal. not a large signal. only go about 3 kilometers. if you think 3 kilometers, we could be potentially at 14, 15,000 feet. so you have to get under water closer to the device. so how they do that, they send
the suicide theory doesn t make sense either. we don t have a motive but maybe it is because the police haven t finished their investigation. motive in any crime, is just as important as opportunity. we don t have a motive. if it was pilot suicide, why ply for seven hours. presumably, the co-pilot and others would have picked something up. i m not willing to rule out the possibility of a mechanical failure. we know the transponder has been turned off. we just don t know why. most people think if it had been some sort of terrorism plot, someone would have said something by now. thanks to jim, seth, rob, and mary. the ping from the underwater beacon ends in 30 days. what happens then? plus, frustrations, and tensions are rising.