according to xinhua. do you glean anything from the silence? if you didn t believe this, if you had no confidence you could have said that very early on. well, i think that s probably it though. they pass the information on to the australians. and the team there had no way to confirm it. it s not their assets there that got the pings or not the wreckage. they probably receive the information and were waiting to be able to confirm or to get additional assets in the area to confirm it. you know, they re probably not too happy that the news is coming out over chinese news agency. but it s a chinese ship. lots of chinese passengers on the on the plane that went down. and so there s a reporter on that ship. i think the reporter is doing what reporters do, which is report news that s pretty darn significant if it s accurate. so i guess at this point the important thing is to get the asset there s and find out if this is true or not because if it s true, this is hugely important and i gue
were undergone on the 5th of april. so the first question has to be what were they doing searching in that area anyway. it wasn t t in the designated search zone. it looks small on the map, a small distance, but we re talking hundreds of miles are involved here. so why were they there. what did they see? all these sort of questions. and now we know some ten hours, according to will ripley s reporting, eight to ten hours later, the australians still haven t received confirmation. an hour or two ago i said this looks a bit of a mess the way the command and control structures on something so important seems to have frayed at the edges. i m being charitable. but if beijing is now saying the families don t believe it to be true, this is exactly, exactly why you can t just have these everybody announcing things at the drop of a hat to the races, because it gives unfair, un
yes. the company manufacturers these beacons for the global market or voice and data recorders for aviation as well as submarine application. you re exactly right in terms of installation. the way these devices operate, they are designed to automatically begin emmii m emi ping at 37.5 kilohertz, one ping per second, when they are immersed in water. that ping will continue until the device is recovered for a period of 30 days. possibly a bit more depending on the condition and age of the battery. and that is what authorities are hopefully listening and hearing in this situation. so it s fascinating about what we re hearing from the chinese news agency is that this chinese vessel, unbeknownst to anyone else had this equipment on its ship and it just happened
level of skepticism? i have a huge level of skepticism, fredericka. as far as radio transmit that signal to show, i ll leave that to the other experts. but in terms of the way this has been handled and both by the chinese and the australians for that matter, i mean, if they were given this information 12 hours ago, that would have been midday lunchtime in australia. and they certainly could have made some announcement that we ve received don t get all excited and raise false hopes but say here are the facts. we received this information. we re responding to this information. and it will take so long to get the equipment there that we need. and when we find out what we have, we ll get back to you. you know, basically sit tight until we get that. but they say nothing which is the same mistake the malaysians made and we crucified them the first couple of days of the incident when the malaysians said we re t not going to say anything until we can confirm it. well, in this situation, th
what s your level of optimism and skepticism as this report comes in? i am skeptically optimistic. it is a mess will let s call it what it is. it is a mess because all the mechanisms designed to prevent exactly the speculation and rampant what is, what if, what happens have now gone right out of the window because of the way the chinese have announced this, through xinhua. all the command and control structures whether by beijing to malaysia to perth, it doesn t matter. this is being set up in a particular way, specifically to avoid this sort of crucial information or misinformation from being leaked at exactly the wrong moment giving painfully false information and false hope to families and setting everybody off in the wrong direction. so, what has to happen now? that s what has happened so far. what has to happen now?