for anyone that s ever gone scubadiving or, you know, been down there in any sort of vehicle, but this is definitely if the chinese heard what they think they heard on the same frequency, it has to be a manmade object of some sort. i ll not be so definite but most likely it s a manmade sound. we re certainly hopeful it s the locater beacons for the black boxes. we do indeed. colleen, let me ask you. when you look at these the search for these batteries or these data boxes, are the current let s say they re on the bottom of the ocean somewhere. are the currents strong enough to move those boxes from point a to point b, or are they pretty much firmly down on the bottom of the ocean? oh, candy.
four orange objects spotted sunday, thought to be a compelling lead. those four objects are not from the plane. they are fishing junk. this morning an australian vessel, the ocean shield, will make its way to the search area, carrying a high-tech u.s. navy pinger detector. it can scan under water for the plane s data boxes. cnn s paula newton joins us now, live in perth, australia. certainly, those four pieces, the pieces of orange debris, thought to be a good lead, now an empty lead. searchers frustrated here. reporter: absolutely. and you know when we talk to them when they get off those planes, christine, they are excited when they see those objects. they look different than other things over the last several days and they think, yes, maybe, finally, this is it. still, the prime minister of australia trying to put all of this in perspective today, saying, look, this search will be long, it will be extensive, and he wanted to make sure the world knew that he was ramping
and let s say they go a couple of years or whatever and they do the payouts. and then we find the data boxes and there is something wrong with the engine or something that can be traced to boeing. then could one sue again? sure, if the statute of limitations hasn t run and if you find the plane and if you in finding the plane you can discover or investigate a mechanical failure. i mean there are all of these unknown scenarios. so bottom line, fred, you know, not knowing what happened to the plane, there is some compensation for the families, not much in u.s. terms, but in what is agreed to by an international treaty organization. so we have to see how this plays out and whether, in fact, they do find these data boxes. yeah. interest potential scenarios there. you also had with you senator dianne feinstein and you asked her about lingering questions
high cost of streaming live data, especially video from the cockpit. but the real issue in this case was all the systems on board the aircraft already stopped transmitting. i think what the regulators will do after this is look at this and figure out how to foolproof those systems so that transponder can t just stop working, the data messaging system can t stop working so sort of pilot proof? right. equipment. the. i lot has to have some authority to turn off the electrical systems in case they overheat. there s a way you can put a small back up battery, embed that in some of these systems. you can install additional systems that do more to help us narrow the search area when something like this happens. how about a battery inside the data boxes that last more than 30 days. that doesn t seem like a high
basically our system is a realtime monitoring system which is compared to the black box or anything else is proactive rather than reactive. our system tweets every five minutes and they can be programmed to come in at every one second, 15 second, every minute. basically what we do is look at the system on board the aircraft through various data but pull information from. and this information is processed and then sent to the ground. within seconds they re able to know if there is any system degradation where the aircraft is within they can track it on their screens. we also have a second to none graphic user interface, which if there is an event or problem in the aircraft, mechanical, electrical, whatever, and if one of the data boxes picks it up, our system will be able to show it on the ground as if whatever