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That theyre able to cull together, they still may not be able to find that one piece that brought the plane down in the first place. >> lets get back to our panel now. also joining us is geoffrey thomas. i want to get to mary quickly. mary, we may not have to put this plane back together. ive asked you this question before and youve answered it. if the data recorders are found and the information is intact, which you think it will be once they are found, the plane, they wont want to reassemble t...

Plane. any hope of unraveling the mystery and the fate of its 239 passengers and crew rests on two black boxes, the flight and data recorders. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals we are detecting are from the black box on mh-370. >> reporter: if they find them, the question remains, who gets the black boxes and who will lead the investigation to uncover what really happened to flight 370. typically following a crash, the country of origin...

And theres a key request here. which county takes the lead in the investigation? joe jones reports. >> reporter: over two dozen countries have been involved in the search for the missing plane. any hope of unraveling the mystery and the fate of its 239 passengers and crew rests in two boxes. the flight and data recorders. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area, and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh-370. >> reporter: if they find...

Again. crews will scan mile after mile of ocean on this the 37th day after flight 370 kept missing and we keep hearing words like optimism and confidence related to this search, but the pings that are thought to be from the planes black boxes have not be detected since tuesday, thats five days leading to fears the batteries in the data recorders are becoming too weak to transmit. now, relatives of missing passengers met today with malaysian officials. one mother says she feels like the malaysian...

Any hope of unraveling the mystery and the fate of its 239 passengers and crew is in two boxes, the flight and data recorders. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh-370. >> reporter: if they find them, the question remains who gets the black boxes and who will lead the investigation to uncover what really happened to flight 370. typically following a crash the country of origin for the airl...

>>. >> four pings heard in the indian ocean have narrowed the search area for flight 370. its not nearly as wide as it was before. but it is still just as deep. crews will need a new set of tools to search nearly three miles now down to the ocean floor. rosa flores has more. >> reporter: four times investigators have heard pings that are consistent with the signals coming from the missing jets data recorders. >> i believe we are searching in the right area, but we need to visually identify aircr...

>> reporter: the u.s. national transportation safety board and the british air accident investigation branch as well as australian authorities each have capabilities with sophisticated labs and technicians. but an international working group of experts has also been suggested. if they are found, decoding the black boxes could be complicated. the boxes are built to withstand extreme conditions including fire and heat damage. but depending on the circumstances of the crash, memory chips extracted ...

That are consistent with the signals coming from the missing jets data recorders. >> i believe we are searching in the right area but we need to visually identify aircraft wreckage. >> reporter: thats where this probe comes in. it was sent to the indian ocean to scour the ocean floor. its called an auv, autonomous underwater vehicle using side scan sonar, you see it here, to create that picture and equipped with a gps system. you can see it right over here. of course that lets the crew know wher...

>> reporter: the u.s. national transportation safety board and the air investigative branch as well as australian authorities each have sophisticated capabilities with labs and technicians. but an international group of workers is suggested. if they are found, decoding the black boxes is critical, depending on the circumstances of the crash, memory chips taken from the data recorders could still be damaged and may require cleaning until the raw data begins to paint a picture of what happened. >>...

They tell us the investigation is going to be long. what we heard from the chief of police is they have interviewed, taken statements from 205 different people including some of the families of the crew members. about a week or so back they told us 170 statements have been taken. so we can now add another 35 to that over the past week. today the police are working away at it. but they have said all along that the key information is going to come from these black boxes or at least from the data r...