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Airasia officials say the focus now is on the recovery effort. the search area is about six miles from the planes last known location. analysts say finding the cockpit voice and data recorders, the so-called black boxes, is key to trying to figure out what went wrong. a u.s. navy ship has arrived in the search area. "the uss sampson" was dispatched following a request from the indonesian government. the pentagon says another ship "the uss ft. worth" is also getting ready to deploy. the discovery...

>> i paint them red. our robots are red. the same color that plane is. because theyre easier to see on the surface. they stand out on the ocean versus -- its not natural to have a red object. life jackets are painted red. >> we saw during mh370 was a number of the submersibles were either red you see the so-called black boxes. theyre orange in color. they were yellow though. is that -- >> yellows another good color. actually some people are starting to use a lime green. but again, red is such a ...

Difficult. once we get a good fix on the location it will be relatively easy to recover the recorders which will give us a wealth of information about what happened. >> the two so-called black boxes. the plane itself though, what condition do you suppose it will be in? >> most likely its pretty well broken up structurally into the -- the wings will probably be together and the fuselage will be badly broken up. much like twa 800 that crashed off the coast of long island. it was pretty well broken...

Continuing our coverage of the missing airliner that is air asia flight 8501. joining us from new york is forensic odd wroe expert paul beginsberg president of pro odd wroe labs. we dont want to get too far ahead of ourselves here but we do want to talk about the possibility of flight data recorders and what they could possibly tell us about what may have happened to this flight once they are discovered. let me ask you this paul. first of all, what is it that the first thing the investigators wi...

251 bodies have been recovered from the crash site of malaysia airlines flight 17. theyre being held in refrigerated railroad cars there. separatists are keeping the remains apparently until they say international experts can examine them. >> and those separatists are also refusing to turn over information about flight data recorders that might have been pulled from the debris. these images here from the reuters news agency shows a worker with what appears to be one of the planes so-called black...

And find out more about our two-year price guarantee. comcast business. built for business. breaking news on malaysia flight 17, the voice and data recorders, so-called black boxes, have been handed over by pro russian rebels. phil was in the room and saw that transfer happen. its been four days since the triple 7 was shot down. there are concerns there was tampering with evidence. as for families with those who were murdered, they may soon be able to give their loved ones a farewell. there is...

Down flight 17? the u.s. says no, ukraine has the same weapons but none of those weapons were in the region at the time. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> the full picture of how and why flight 17 came down over eastern ukraine is far from clear. that much is very clear. but how long until we have conclusive answers beginning to emerge? i want to bring in our panel again. cnn military analyst, lieutenant colonel rick francona, former intelligence officer and former cia operative and cnn natio...

Black boxes, the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, have been removed. that would have been my first priority and thats not possible anymore since they have been taken. so they need to look at the plane, concentrate on the plane, look at the evidence left by the missile impacts, the metal shrapnel, they need to get samples of the explosive. they need to map where the debris fell so they can tell if the plane, how much of it broke apart in midair. they have to work very quickly so y...

So yeah, i think there was a little bit of -- i dont think it was an intelligence failure so much as maybe a systemic failure in the air traffic control system. >> how to react to it and make sure the flights are safe. >> i would have immediately stopped the flights over that area as soon as i saw that 21,000 feet. >> bob, i wonder, a lot of the most interesting evidence has come from these intercepted phone calls by ukrainian intelligence and today, you have another one. its almost i think as i...

In a horrific spiral to the earth, and it says that theyre involved and two, if they go to moscow, we wont get them. remember on 007 it took yeltsen ten years later to release the fact they had them and the evidence on them. >> it was back in 1983. jim, as you well know, the suspicion that perhaps moscow wants the black boxes is coming from this audio recording released by the ukrainian government saying they intercepted calls saying as much but of course, we cant verify the authenticity of thos...