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Extent of the breakup once it hit the water. >> reporter: now nine days since the airbus 320 went missing and so far no signals have been detected to help hone in on the critical black boxes. >> the voice recorder in the cockpit tells you what the people are saying. it also records sound. you might hear a bang for instance. you also have this data recorder thats telling you what thrust settings the engine was on. you can really recreate in a great level of detail what was happening with the plan...

Set, we have the so-called black box. i never knew by the way, why they were called black boxes given that theyre orange. you have the critical flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. this is what thir theyre hunting for. these things are sturdy. theyre going to retain the information. once they do recover these, whats the most critical piece of information theyre going to hopefully glean from it? >> well you dont really know what the critical piece of information is until you look ...