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Theyre referring to as under sea surveillance technology, they want two capabilities essentially. they want some acoustic capabilities, thing they can put in the water to listen for the black boxes, the data recorders, if you will. and also under sea salvage technology once they locate the wreckage and they want the technology to go after it. but, wolf, theres a couple of issues here, this is some of the most sophisticated, most classified technology the u.s. navy has, they may not even be able ...

Chilling recording for government officials to listen to because we then -- we had perfect knowledge about the last minutes of flight egypt air 990. its a long way to finding that black box here but thats what you really need to understand what happened. >> peter, lets not forget, even if they find this flight data recorder, the voice recorder, it may be empty. there may be nothing on that voice recorder. >> thats right. >> for a crazy reason that they only record, what, the last half hour or so...

Sanctions announced monday and, of course, this executive order which says that perhaps parts of the russian economy in general could be targeted if this continues. thats the real fear, i think, here. what we heard today from the white house was punishment for crimea and prohibiting many important people from having access to the global economy in many ways. the question is are they really trying to sound enough of a warning shot to prevent any intervention in eastern ukraine? thats the real con...

Their locating signals. and without those recorders, solving the mystery of flight 370 may be impossible. rene marsh is here and shes working this part of the story for us. what do we know about these flight recorders, the flight and data, the voice and data recorders? >> right, so wolf, as you see, theyre bright orange and theyre bright orange because they want these search and rescue teams to easily be able to spot them at a crash site but finding them in this case is a mounting challenge. the...

Different? i still think -- this is so baffling sometimes. theres such a level of interest in it. and everyone wants know and everyone has a theory, but at the end of the day theres only so many facts and that just sort of leaves us -- >> i do think these next few hours could be critical if those surveillance planes, the poseidon or the orion, the p-3, the p-8 if they get over this area and ships get closer, maybe theyll be able to touch and feel effectively what this wreckage is, what the debri...

If they can get back to the area where they believe the plane went down, the real goal is to get the data recorders. the flight data recorders are what will answer many questions. another one records the data. the cockpit voice recorder, ive spoken to a friend of mine who is a pilot that suggested if the cockpit voice recorder is completely silent, it only records two hours and then it records over itself. if its completely silent, he says, that will be as telling as any sort of conversation bec...

Really orange -- >> even then. >> why do you say even then? >> because the voice cockpit recorder will have been written over if the plane stayed in the air that much longer, theyre not going to be able to go back to listen to what happened in the cockpit. >> it will be silent. >> the last two hours -- >> theyll still have a lot of data. >> it will go up, down or sideways and wont tell you whats being said in the cockpit. >> but that data would be useful. >> it would be extremely useful. but it ...

Why is it we only have 30 days on these? why after all of the innovation we dont have some better system for this? >> you know, thats an excellent question because of the fact that the french government now for 447 recommended as one of their top recommendations inl s lessons learned from the accident that that be extended to 90 days. yet four, five years later nothing -- >> anywhere. >> not even proposed rule make. >> this is not exclusion to malaysian airlines, nobody has implemented a new sys...

Parker for national geographic.com and patrick smith of ask the pilot.com. welcome back. one thing we know for certain, there would be a lot less speculation and guessing for planes in flight and those on the ground. i want to come to you because the different ways the planes can communicate and my question to you is why not have the device where planes are in constant communication with the ground. we wouldnt be having this conversation and guessing. >> thats really a question i would like to h...

>> okay. what are the chances, though, of the beacons failing? because, you know, we look at recent airline tragedies or missing airplanes, and it has taken up to two years in some instances to find the data recorders. >> correct. actually, each unit is tested in water prior to shipping to its destination. so, the likelihood of the pinger failing is very slim. it is a very reliable device. it has been used for many, many years. this unit has proven effective over a long span of time. other than ...