Black Boxes Arent Perfect News Today

To figure that out. bottom line the so-called black boxes arent perfect, even when they are found to be in good condition. they may not reveal the cause of the crash. on a plane they are tucked inside an insulated case surrounded by stainless steel designed to withstand temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees fahrenheit and catastrophic impact. after twa flight 800 went down in july 199612 minutes after takeoff from jfks airport, the planes black boxes were recovered, hardly a scratch on them, but...

Learn this. >> both the recorders stopped recording about six minutes before the aircraft actually hit the water. >> reporter: leaving investigators to wonder why they suddenly lost control of the plane. it was a fire they later found in the jets entertainment system, but it took putting the plane back together, all 2 million pieces of it, back together. bottom line the so-called black boxes arent perfect, even when they are found to be in good condition. they may not reveal the cause of the cra...

Out. bottom line, the so-called black boxes arent perfect. and theyre not black either. theyre usually orange. on an airplane, theyre tucked inside an insulated case and surrounded by stainless steel. built to withstand temperatures high as 2,000 degrees fahrenheit and catastrophic impact. after twa flight 200 went down after 12 minutes after takeoff from new yorks jfk airport, the planes black boxes were recovered, but they offered little. >> both the voice recorder and the data recorder termin...

But it took putting the plane back together all two million pieces of it to figure that out. bottom line the so-called black boxes arent perfect. and theyre not black either. theyre usually orange. on an airplane theyre tucked inside an insulated case and surrounded by stainless steel. theyre built to withstand temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees fahrenheit and catastrophic impact. after twa flight 800 went down in july 1996 just 12 minutes after takeoff from new yorks jfk airport, the planes ...

>> reporter: this is the sound of a pilot in trouble. that was the pilot of swissair flight 111 talking to air traffic control just minutes before he crashed into the atlantic ocean in 1998. everyone on board was killed. when crash investigators found the planes black boxes at the bottom of the ocean, they were stunned. >> both the recorders stopped recording about six minutes before the aircraft actually hit the water. >> reporter: leaving investigators to wonder why they suddenly lost control ...

System, which also caused the black boxes to fail. but it took putting the plane back together, all 2 million pieces of it, to figure that out. bottom line, the so-called black boxes arent perfect. and theyre not black, either. theyre usually orange. on an airplane, theyre tucked inside an insulated case and surrounded by stainless steel. theyre built to withstand temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees fahrenheit and catastrophic impact. after twa flight 800 went down in july 1996, just 12 minute...

But it took putting the plane back together, all 2 million pieces of it, to figure that out. bottom line, the so-called black boxes arent perfect. and theyre not black, either. theyre usually orange. on an airplane theyre tucked inside an insulated case and surrounded by stainless steel. theyre built to withstand temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees fahrenheit and catastrophic impact. after twa flight 800 went down in july 1996, just 12 minutes after takeoff from new yorks jfk airport, the plan...