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>> very, very quickly. if we dont get the data recorders, the so-called black boxes, there l this essentially remain a mystery? >> i suspect it probably will. im not an expert on finding sunken black boxes but it seems an awesome task after the air france 447 took two years and they knew exactly where that aircraft was and in this case they dont. so they really must try and locate those black boxes whilst theres some battery life on the flight deck recorder. its only got a range of about 10 kilo...

A third party or the aircraft could have been commandeered by a third party, someone who would have the technical knowledge and skills necessary to operate the aircraft themselves without the crew. so any of those scenarios is plausible at this point. >> cary walsh, if this plane is in the southern indian ocean, the topography underwater, how much does that play into the difficulty of retrieving the ever-so-important black boxes? >> well, its going to play a lot into the difficulty. the area the...

Getting worse, the cloud is low, in some areas down at sea level, making visibility, obviously, very difficult. this is going to hamper the search, christine. >> talk more about that weather, because that is something that searchers did not need right now. they need to be able to see whats out there, they need to be able to deploy assets to find it. they need to find those, you know, those so-called black boxes. we need information from what was happening in that cockpit and to the engines of th...

Empty. its a difficult place to see anything unfortunately. >> that map we just put up shows you, you have to turn the earth almost on its side to get a look at what were talking about here. thank you to chris hatfield. well see both of you again in a few minutes to talk more about this search. while search teams from around the globe are scouring the oceans for any sign of flight 370, investigators back home are examining ways to keep this from happening again and one way would involve doing ...

On the surface. very carefully back on how the currents might have taken it and so forth. see if you can find the main body of wreckage, and down there with that would be the so-called black boxes. but then youve got to locate them precisely, so you need sonar, if the pinger is still going. and eventually, youre going to have to have unmanned subs, if they ever do locate them, unmanned subs that go down and cameras show, and when they spot them, they can bring them up. a tedious job. >> one of t...

Why is it we only have 30 days on these? why after all of the innovation we dont have some better system for this? >> you know, thats an excellent question because of the fact that the french government now for 447 recommended as one of their top recommendations inl s lessons learned from the accident that that be extended to 90 days. yet four, five years later nothing -- >> anywhere. >> not even proposed rule make. >> this is not exclusion to malaysian airlines, nobody has implemented a new sys...

Entire time and they can hear what it hears. >> and presumably hear the pings from the flight data recorders, the so-called black boxes? >> correct. >> so that would be pretty significant. do we know if they actually dropped those buoys into where the debris may be located? >> i heard about buoy deployments yesterday to look at what the currents are doing but well need that information to backtrack to the possible impact point. im not sure what has been deployed in the area. i think more importa...

Somewhere out there. whether its land or sea. that is the emergency locater transmitter in the tail. >> correct. >> that is the epirb, on the rafts. and then, of course -- we like to call them the old fashioned name, black boxes, cockpit voice recorder. give me a breakdown on those other two transmitters and battery life left on the black boxes. >> well, the elt and the epirbs are short-term, 24 to 48 hours. once they touch water they start sending a signal for only 24 to 48 hours. >> so what wa...

Satellites five hours after the transponder went dead. u.s. officials saying theres a significant likelihood the plane is at the bottom of the indian ocean. back with me is my panel and bill nye a former boeing engineer and working on the design of so-called black boxes. and retired senior ntsb investigator. matthew robinson, we were talking before the break there. i want to ask you a more focused question about the terrain. i believe you know the area well. obviously completely baffling to many...

Damaged if it did actually crash on impact, it would really just break apart. but this would be very different. this sort of search would be very different than that 2009 crash of air france off the coast of brazil. in that case, the plane disintegrated and it settled some 12,000 feet deep. that required specialized equipment to go and recover the so-called black boxes. were talking about the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. now, in this case, at depths of about 300 feet or s...