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Amsterdam is home to so many on the train. >> reporter: in refrigerator train car webs 282 bodies lie in identical black bags, tagged laggage sits on the platform as the train leaves the region. it has been days offing agony a insult waiting for the release of their loved ones. the fredericks in amsterdam lost their son in the crash. >> i want the body. they can have everything. i want the body. >> take their iphone webs take their money, take everything. >> with blatant disregard, local miners ...

>> justin, if investigators determine who is responsible, not just a group but if they have a name, if they indeed determine that russia, on the russian military was involved, how do you go after them? >> thats a very good question. part of the missing evidence i mean t black boxes apparently have been found. the missing evidence is the missile battery that took it down, where is that. the missing evidence are the people that manned that missile battery, where are they. if we determine that this...

Insecure and already we dont know where the critical information, the flight recorders or black boxes or whatever you want to say is on the ground. we dont know where it was taken or impartial investigators. we dont know what happened on the ground. >> that was cnn international correspondent christiane amanpour. discussing the unknown of the crucial pieces of information, the so-called black boxes. there is worry today that the crash zone may be contaminated by rebel fighters and that will make...

Humanity and dignity to the site. at this point so much of the evidence has been moved or contaminated. you usually do a grid first. thats why the u.s. ntsb has a go team. they have a jet and they get there fast them map out the area. if the fbi is there, the criminal investigators would take precedence because it is a crime scene. then they start to move thing here. that couldnt be done because of the terrorists have the site. moving the bodies does seem like a logical thing to do to get them t...

Somewhere and theyll find it. >> when they do find the cockpit voice recorder, the so-called black boxes, how much information specifically will we be able to glean from that as far as whether it was an air-to-air missile or a surface-to-air missile, for example? >> that im not sure about. you may be able to interpret something from the sound of the airplane being struck. those microphones pick up sound like the microphone over which im talking to you. but they also pick up vibrations, sound vib...

Have been heard. they have been searching where the pings were heard and now say the pings are believed to no longer have come from the so-called black boxes. lets talk to former ntsb managing director and tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director. its pretty shock iing, when yo think about it, early on, everybody talking about the four pi pings coming from the black box, voices saying, not so fast. they werent the same megahertz or ping boxes supposed to deliver. they said, well, maybe the oce...

Experts. cnn aviation analyst, peter goelz. cnn afteruation analyst, michael kay. aviation consultant, ken christianson. geoffrey thomas, editor in chief of airlineratings.com joining us from pauaustralia. peter goelz, theyre going to move this underwater search a little further north based on what, the second ping as opposed to the strongest ping? is that what theyre going to do? >> thats exactly right. i think theyre obligated to do that. the australians made a big deal about the pings. theyve...

And supported by congress because its a system that has to work together. its important that not only that its there but it integrates with the existing traffic control systems. im concerned about having a knee-jerk reaction. its tough when you throw in another party there wasnt there before without planning. i worked on next gen for seven or eight years before it game real. >> so logistically it could be an issue. my concern is, this isnt really what i want to hear. i want to hear that the blac...

That is going to be getting the boxes, unfortunately. >> okay. >> that theres really nothing -- theres no other data points were going to have if we had more data track, if we saw an extremely steady course, then that might lead us to be a little more comfortable thinking that. but outside of having that, which we dont, the next step is, go near the place youre going to find that information is in the boxes, unfortunately. >> in your experience that was exactly what changed the investigation for...

These sounds are coming from the so-called black boxes, then the next phase of the search will begin. and that is to actually go underwater. now, many people are wondering what will happen with the black boxes once they are found. according to international protocol, it is the country to which the airline belongs to in this case malaysia that will take charge, that will lead the investigation. but the malaysian police chief has already come out and said they actually dont have the expertise to o...