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Kit, whether there needs to be additional elements added to it. and it ll be to look at the search to that point. see whether or not they re satisfied that the area searched that s been searched as much as it could be. look at the math that went into making a calculation on the pingers. look at the math associated with the handshake estimates, and keep going. and by the handshake estimates, it s the signal from the plane to satellite. to satellite. so is there any thought now that, perhaps, the pinger estimates. that is hearing the ping and saying, okay, let s narrow the search area down, is there a thought that the those estimates were wrong and it could be some place else? and is there any thought that perhaps they weren t pingers on the plane? well, on the first point. i m not sure, of course. i m not intimate with the research. but from what one can discern, they had a very high level of ....
and by the handshake estimates, it s the signal from the plane to satellite. to satellite. so is there any thought now that, perhaps, the pinger estimates. that is hearing the ping and saying, okay, let s narrow the search area down, is there a thought that the those estimates were wrong and it could be someplace else? and is there any thought that perhaps they weren t pingers on the plane? well, on the first point. i m not sure, of course. i m not intimate with the research. but from what one can discern, they had a very high level of confidence they got the right areas associated with the pings. i think in their minds that the pings from the aircraft were good in terms of it reflecting the fact they discovered the area was located. i think if you cast your mind back, it was a set of pings that were picked up over a long period of time, a couple of hours. ....
We ll goat the other things, including the radar. i want to get to colleen now. what does it tell you that several days of work, as you look at this new ship that is going out, no new research, no new search there is a new search area. nothing has turned up right now. they re using this ocean shield to get there with the pinger. and we have those live exclusive pictures of that. and we ve got will ripley out there now traveling with that. does this offer more hope now with the new search area and with this new ocean shield ship going out, colleen? well, don, by now, we really hope to have had some wreckage brought aboard a ship that would have told us we re in the right area that said, the pinger locator devices have to be brought out to the search area. and we just have to get them in the water while we still have a chance of detecting a target. it s our only hope for narrowing the search area down. i will remind you for the air force search, one of the reasons why the search went o ....
i want to stick with the vessel we ll get out there, and we ll get the other things, including the radar. i want to get to colleen now. what does it tell you that several days of work, as you look at this new ship that is going out, no new research, no new search there is a new search area. nothing has turned up right now. they re using this ocean shield to get there with the pinger. and we have those live exclusive pictures of that. and we ve got will ripley out there now traveling with that. does this offer more hope now with the new search area and with this new ocean shield ship going out, colleen? well, don, by now, we really hope to have had some wreckage brought aboard a ship that would have told us we re in the right area that said, the pinger locator devices have to be brought out to the search area. and we just have to get them in the water while we still have a chance of detecting a target. it s our only hope for narrowing the search area down. i will remind you for the ....
Time, quite a lot of time, actually, for people actually in vessels to get there, john. now, andrew, when it comes to getting eyeballs on the scene, like you mentioned, talk about some of the difficulties, whether it be weather or whether it be sunlight, to get at least the aircraft hovering over these pieces of debris. reporter: well, it s just about everything you care to mention. you mentioned two there. there s about four hours of daylight left in that target zone, and there has been planes circling that area for several hours now. they re going out in stages. this is a staging post, so they re going out in staggered intervals so they can have at least one plane on target at any one time for several hours. the weather is not playing its part. visibility has been described as poor. the actual sea conditions are moderate. again, the search coordinator s saying don t be surprised if we don t actually see anything today. they have narrowed the search area down. they re narrowing it ....