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Dont have right now is a readout of cockpit voice recorder. the flight data recorder as the "wall street journal" said will show what the pilots did, the cockpit voice recorder will indicate why they did what they did. >> or what they talked about while they were doing it, right? >> and also whether someone from the cabin, from the cabin broke into the cockpit. >> so there is still that possibility, the "wall street journal" points this out, its not impossible at this point that another person c...

>> and we know that european airliners that allow one pilot in the cockpit are already starting to change that process. you know, we have the voice recorder, which has revealed what the investigator has already said, what doomed this plane, believing the co-pilot did that. is there any other data, miles, that could be coming in if they find the flight data recorders or anything else that could help us get more information about the why and the how? >> you know, a couple things. first of all, the...

Leah: and in this particular aircraft, it had fly-by require which weve talked about that, essentially, you put controls in, a computer decides what to do with those control inputs, and it could potentially fight the pilot. the computer system might actually say no, im not going to let this plane climb any higher because its already going outside its operating end slope. >> i think thats a great point and thats one of the fundamental differences between a boeing and an air bus aircraft is that a...

Decree -- the aircraft, the floating debris they know the winds and currents, thatll lead us back, hopefully, to the submerges debris, the pingers which will take us to the two black boxes is what we really need to solve this accident. yes, the transponder data is very handy, but what we really need is what went on in the cockpit and what control inputs were being made. trace: we were just talking early, doctor, about the fact that planes just dont sum my fall -- simply fall out of the sky, and ...

Off, control inputs and all of the data from the flight. the cockpit voice recorder is not likely to yield as much information because its on a two-hour loop. >> i raised the issue why? why record over if something sinister is going on, it could be on that recorder in the first two hours of a long flight, not the last two hours. oxygen for passengers is only 15 minutes. thats for them to reach a safe altitude where you dont need it. in terms of this recorder, the fact that the battery life is on...

To be the flight data recorder. its a 25 hour event recorder. it records the artifacts of the -- basically the entire flight. well know what direction, what control inputs were made. what pattern was flown and while it doesnt sound like much, we may be able to build a story line as to maybe what the intent of the pilot or pilots who were operating the airplane, what the intent was during the course of the flight. >> well, were going to keep, really, on top of this story. greg, fieth thank you fo...