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>> thats true, wolf. but those cases, the opinion that the co-pilots crashed the plane is based on cockpit voice recorders where they could hear the struggle at the cockpit, knew who was at the controls, knew from data recorders what exactly those aircraft did as they crashed. in this case, you dont have that. so this judgment is being made on the absence of other evidence. >> why dont the malaysians release the recordings of what the pilot and the co-pilot were saying to ground control during t...

This one could lay the first eyes on the wreckage site of mh-370. >> the wreckage can tell you how it impacted or how it came apart. it can certainly tell you if certain parts were burned. it can tell you a very complete story. >> metal arms and jaws are controlled by a joy stick. >> its a black box, not a problem at all to pick it up, put it in a basket and recover it back to the vessel. >> reporter: but before the data recorders are recovered, the wreckage must be located, task as daunting as ...

From what ive gathered, will, it wont actually get to the search area in the ocean until the fifth of april. why so long? >> reporter: absolutely right. absolutely right. a week and a half from now. heres the deal. it arrived overnight, as you mentioned. this is a great piece of technology provided by the u.s. navy that can go down 20,000 feet and listen for the ping thats being sent out by the cockpit voice recorder and inflight data recorder. heres the problem -- those recorders have a battery...

20,000 feet sending acoustic pulses to the sea flee to find debris. maps are drown. they the find things up to 300 feet under the sea floor. the zernl needs to be narrowed down first. this suv can only search eight scare miles day. it would take four days to search an area as big as manhattan. the kwipt works around obstacles and maps them so divers wont get hurt. sgr we tend to fly the avu. keeps us out of the way of any ob trux. >> these searches can take months or years but the waif is high. ...

Malaysian defense minister, they stopped looking in the northern corridor, and all the focus is in the south, and although its 20% of where they were working -- you have perking -- perth right here -- there are few zones and that is more than 622,000 square miles. >> incredible. >> thats the needle in the -- the haystack they were looking for. >> still looking for the haystack. several countries pitching in with special equipment that could help find the data recorders, officials say a deep sea ...

>> 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...

Frankly, where we have dedicated our help. >> for the brother of one passenger, the hope is that the search continues. >> and i just want to see some debris off the aircraft and the black box to know what exactly happened because theres too many unanswered questions. >> and now there are two vital pieces of u.s. navy equipment on the way to the region. first, a pinger listening system that will be put into the water if they can determine whether to begin to look for the data recorders. a ship wi...

>> reporter: yes. we are expecting more details tomorrow at a press conference. a time hasnt been set yet. presumably, more details about how exactly inmarsat was finally able to calculate the final position of flight 370 and how malaysia will continue to coordinate the search effort. as richard quest has mentioned, it is imperative now that they find the debris field. thats the only way they are going to find that flight data recorder and figure out what happened inside the flight. the problem ...

Autopilot speed. >> the pings indicate the southern ocean. >> well, at this point we are still only talking about probabilities and cannot draw any conclusions until we find a piece of this plane. we still have no clue what happened on board. of course, the data recorders would paint a picture as to what went wrong. >> yeah, like one of these. this is a flight data recorder that emits that pinging noise. china says it is sending more ships to the southern indian ocean. a new search is about to...

Certain parts were burned. it can tell you a very complete story. >> reporter: metal arms and jaws are controlled by a joy stick. >> close the jaws. not a problem at all to pick it up and recover it back to the vessel. >> reporter: but before the data recorders are recovered the wreckage must be located, a task as daunting as the indian ocean is deep. now, working in the indian ocean is going to be very, very difficult. the good thing about r.o.v.s is they can work under water for days on end. i...