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Radar that spot storms more than 100 miles. >> i think they knew they were enter to severe weather. perhaps were in severe weather. was the request to divert. they asked to increase their altitude altitude. that requires -- it was declined to my understanding. they were told to go left. so try to circumstance couple navigate the weather. they were not given authority to go above it. the plane, from everything i understand, could not have gone over the top of the storm. other planes flying in the...

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...

Some idea of where this plane made contacts with the water, if it was in one general area and that can lead them to the bottom the parts that they really need to find. what are those kinds of parts? were talking about very heavy things basically. were talking about the cockpit of the plane, the data recorders, things that they may want to know a great deal about there. if you look at the data recorders on this plane, what youre going to find is they are probably going to be near the bottom. if y...

>> that sort of depth is possible with divers with specialist equipment. they can go down. they cannot stay down very long but they can, in fact, recover things. i would imagine were talking in terms of weeks rather than months in recovering the data recorders. its possible they could find it sooner than that. thats difficult to know the visibility is like down there and currents. i have done some diving myself. it is not always straight forward. there are other factors that come into play. if i...

Data what was happening and then you literally you plot it on to a timeline. so what they do is they put the voice recorder then they put all the imput then they put the weather and they build up a realtime picture of exactly what was happening in the cockpit and they can tell you to the nth detail right down to the power of the chimes and noises and alarms. >> whats different from mh-370 -- we cant help but make comparisons -- we watched how t battery life on those data recorders slipped away f...

Stage and there will be other stages unfortunately, and thats when you know depending on what information we learn, you can deal with the families in a different way. >> thank you, good to have you on the program. appreciate the expertise this evening. quick break. were going to be back and talk about the crews and looking for those flight recorders. those critical data recorders. what information could be revealed about this flight. cnns special live coverage of missing asia airlines flight 850...

Narrow it down, put the pinger locators in the water, find the pinger noise, which is the easiest search to do the first search then you can start doing the side scan sonar, pick up the data of the debris field and then map that and go get some high resolution pictures and then send your salvage divers down. its shallow enough there that they can use divers to recover black boxes. so thats a much faster easier operation than using rovs. but when they start pulling the debris up theyll be using p...

Rachel crane explains what we can expect from the voice and data recorders. >> the search for survivors always comes first. but just as important is the search for answers. the why and the how. often those answers are found in the black box. since the 60s, all commercial airplanes have been required to have one on board. now the name is a little misleading because theyre actually orange. and when were talking about a black box, were talking about two different boxes. one being the cockpit voice ...

The mystery of what happened to the airasia jet is renewing calls for better tracking devices aboard airliners. cnn business correspondent alison kosik looked into the available technology. >> reporter: right now when an airplane disappears the story of what went wrong vanishes with the black box. but what if we had those answers all along? >> we would know where the aircraft has gone where it is and we would have information on what happened in the meantime. >> reporter: canadian company flight...

All were involved at some point in time, and they all, according to the records made the wrong decisions at some point in time flying that plane into the water thinking they needed to bring the nose up when, in fact, they had to put the nose down. is it your experience, do you think here that maybe there was some ice, maybe the computer might have shut off and they were kind of stuck? >> of course its possible, trace. we again, we need to get the recorders. the recorders will have things like th...