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The future? heres tech correspondent lawrie seagull. >> reporter: the story of what went wrong vanished. the answers could be in the black box. 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: flight makes live streaming data recorders that send information in realtime. its part of a satellite-based system that monitors the exact location, engine conditions and more. >> ...

Data recorders. vast piece of water, is this a huge, multidimensional search problem. >> certainly is, now that the sun is setting there off the coast of australia, much of the search will have to wait until day break tomorrow. barbara starr, thank you so much. well get back to you in just a moment so standby. we want to continue this conversation. do we have a picture of the satellite image of the chinese that we can put up as we trout panel. mary schiavo and we have this breaking news of this ...

Underwater surveillance in searching for the data recorders. this, after a 30-minute conversation between hagel and malaysian defense minister hussein. >> the defense minister of malaysia asked secretary hagel to consider providing some underseas surveillance equipment to help them look for the black box and whatever wreckage might be underwater. >> the malaysians are looking for pings from the data recorders and deep ocean salvage capability to raise any debris from the sea. but experts say fir...

Have some answers about that plane. cnns laurie segall, has more for you. >> hey, carol, right now, the plane sinks to the bottom of the ocean. the flight data recorder goes with it. we spoke with one company that says, that doesnt have to be the case and to say we could have had a lot more answers about the missing jet. >> when malaysian flight 370 disappears, the story of what went wrong vanished with it. the answers might be stuck in the flight data recorder, the so-called black box but what ...

Crash search weve ever seen? >> yes. certainly. at least of this significance a commercial airliner like this one. again, you think about that crash off brazil. two days later, we saw debris floating. took two year and just a lot more data points there to work with. here this debris will have been floating, if, in fact, a big if it is debris, for nearly two weeks. it will have been adrift. youre dealing with very deep water. the clock ticking, as we know, on those black boxes we call them. cockp...

Cases in the past where a hijacker took control of a plane and flew it to some remote location, you know, one of the goals of terrorists is to get media attention, and theyve certainly -- if that was the goal in this case, theyve done it. and in terms of terror, you know, people thinking twice now about getting on an aircraft and wondering if theyll ever be seen or heard of or known about ever again. so, you know, thats not an -- i mean, its an outside possibility but you cant rule it out. >> tw...

Racing for answers, through pretty nasty weather against deadlines driven by shifting ocean currents and approaching storm systems to the remaining juice in the batteries of the boeing 777s data recorders. were learning new information tonight about what got investigators so interested in this particular debris and why tonight some analysts now have greater confidence that this time, after so many false leads, this could be the real thing. first to kyung lah in australia. what is the latest righ...

In the search for the flight, the planes voice and data recorders. they were crucial to investigators and malaysia is appealing to the u.s. to provide more of the devices that can detect the pings from those recorders. we get more on that from renee mar marsh. >> reporter: these two hints in the indian ocean may be the best hint yet. but even if they are from the missing plane, the real key to understanding what happened could still be miles away at the bottom of the ocean and its call, but time...

Have routine scheduled maintenance. wolf? >> what does that mean? maintenance for the second day in a row. are they giving you any information with the p-8, the poseidon will not be involved in the hunt on this day? >> reporter: its not very clear. they have to have a certain number of hours down and were not sure why it has to be two days in a row. we need to check in on that and have more information for you. >> kyung lah, thank you. there is a massive hunt for the airliner to try to pinpoint ...

Crash search weve ever seen? >> yes. certainly. at least of this significance a commercial airliner like this one. again, you think about that crash off brazil. two days later, we saw debris floating. took two year and just a lot more data points there to work with. here this debris will have been floating, if, in fact, a big if it is debris, for nearly two weeks. it will have been adrift. youre dealing with very deep water. the clock ticking, as we know, on those black boxes we call them. cockp...