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Outposts that had been undersiege before bergdahl s abduction easement did you find any reports that of search parties, search missions where there was a death or an injury? of a search mission? an actual search mission. we are still looking. we are trying to find where you can actually pinpoint it to being a search mission. we have gone through the casualties that we have identified in pakiqua province going into november and, so far, we have not been able to clearly identify any one of those deaths to a taliban ambush or something like that in pursuit of bergdahl. there s a temptation for people in our business to get into the weeds with this. you are looking for proof of this allegation. we are just trying to point out this is a complex situation. reporter: when you pull back from it, and you look, why does this matter? deaths of americans certainly matters, killed in action matters. no question about that. absolutely. but these circumstances they ....
Is left of the aircraft, in the not too disstant future. reporter: detections boosted optimism but crews are listening for even more to narrow the search arrir area, and they re borrowed time. given the guaranteed shelf life of the pink batteries is 30 days, and it s now 33 days since the aircraft went missing. reporter: investigator says they will only launch the underwater vehicle bluefin after they are search the batteries are dead. the bluefin can launch search missions that last nearly a day. but it s slow. it would take six times longer to cover the same area as the tow pinger locator. once found, it could take months to recover boxes. the water in the area can be miles deep. recreational scuba divers only go down 130 feet. the empire state building would go down 1,000 feet. ....
Tuesday. once for about five minutes and then again for seven. ocean shield has now picked up a total of four pings in five days all near the arc where the plane made its last satellite connection. i m now optimistic that we will find the aircraft or what is left of the aircraft in the not too distant future. reporter: the detections boosted optimism, but crews are still listening for even more to narrow the search area and they re on borrowed time. guaranteed shelf life of the pinger batteries is 30 days and it is now 33 day since the aircraft went missing. reporter: investigators say they will only launch the underwater vehicle bluefin after they are certain the batteries are dead. equipped with side scan sonar, the bluefin can launch search missions that last nearly a day, but it s slow. it would take six times longer ....
You re in the cnn newsroom. thank you for joining us. for so many dead ends, days on end, no clues came out of search for that long missing airliner. now this weekend, they are faint but they are clues. and searchers are chasing them with the best stuff they have got. right now a british navy ship is in the area where a chinese crew detected some electronic pulses on a frequency used by locator beacons. our analysts warn us not to get too excited about this. these pings could turn into nothing. the australian official heading up the multinational search missions calls these new leads the most promising. we just heard from the search coordination center that three civilian planes, military planes and 14 ships are out scanning the search areas today. here s another mystery. did the plane try to avoid indonesian air space station? it apparently steered a mysterious course around the country. why did it do that? ....
In. najib razak, he s the malaysian prime minister, he s here in perth, on this air base here, out of which the search rescue is for the most part being coordinated, being briefed by the australian teams. the other teams as well, that are carrying out those search missions. he then gave a press conference alongside his australian counterpart, and he struck a sort of, you know, optimistic note, saying, essentially, we ll do everything we can to get to the bottom of this. he also said that the new, refined area of search has given us new hope. but there s been no debris that s been found so far from the missing airliner. tony abbott, his australian counterpart, the australian prime minister, striking a much more cautious tone, though. take a listen. this is probably the most difficult search ever undertaken, the most difficult search ever undertaken. even though we are constantly refining the search area, even though the search area is moving ....