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>> reporter: what is more likely critical for the malaysian airline is the recorders ability to withstand the tremendous pressure from the depths of the sea. the technology has come a long way. aircraft of this like from 1954 didnt have data recorders. it was shortly after the start of the jet age that the concord had a major accident and benefited from the advanced technology. but the problem is et getting to the recorders fast enough that makes them useful. from as deep as 20,000 feet below. b...

>> this has got to be a parallel investigation both looking at whether its an accident or a possible criminal act. >> investigators will check for evidence of bombs. or the 1994 attack on a philippine airline 747, one passenger was killed. it was part of a test run for an attack on 12 u.s. airliners that was foiled. theres no indication at this point of terrorism, but it cannot completely be ruled out either. one can only speculate until the data recorders are found. they activate when they hit ...

That. critical to help determining what happened to this missing flight, the data recorders if they are ever found. suzanne malveaux got a chance to look inside these. >> a typical boeing 777 has two recorders. the cockpit data recorder and its less likely to get damaged. getting to these devices is critical now. that is because despite the d durability, its all about how quickly the investigators can find them. how could the transponder fail and the aircraft veer so widely off course? the data ...

There would be but one of the issues that we have here is that the plane was at the outer reaches or outer capabilities of the malaysian radar. the further the object is away from the radar base, the less accurate the radar is. so it could be explained that it was at the outer reaches but its very perplexing. you would have thought that you would see the plane going down, you would have picked up hits on it. its very, very unusual. >> its a mystery to be sure. peter, thanks very much. up next,...

Off the assembly line, the planes meat about 5 million flights. yet the first fatal crash came in july when this asiana airlines crashed in san francisco. three people died. the cause still under investigation. in this crash, finding the plane itself is still the first priority. the data recorders are a priority. without those, there is no wi to get a full picture of what happened. this remains a mystery. jim? >> thanks very much. lets go back to new york with cnn super aviation expert. richard,...

Found any debris, what does that say to you? >> well, at this point i think thats not uncommon. if you recall, during the air france 447 off of rio, it took quite a number of days to find that. now, he recognize that this is a smaller area but youre still searching in quite a large amount of water and even over parts of land. >> so the bottom line in all of this is that we dont know yet. there could be any of these explanations. were just going to have to wait and see. you cant draw any conclusi...

The voice ask data recorders from the missing malaysia airlines plane could provide the best hope of determining what went wrong. so far there is no sign of the plane, no sign of the devices. but what if an aircraft could beam information back to the ground during an emergency? any emergency? brian todd is joining us now to talk about that. brian, the technology for those so-called live black boxes, it exists. how does it work, and why is it available on all planes? >> well, it does exist, wolf....

Causes the world to tighten up and have increased security, such as checking future bookings for stolen passports or travel documents. so thats the only difference. the trial run is not supposed to be the actual run. its supposed to be an attempt just to ping the system and see what security measures are in place. >> tom few weuentes, mary schia thank you so much into what happened to airlines flight 370, were going to look at some of the troubling theories. and its the only way to know for cert...

Prioritizing in this search. we focus on locating the flight digital recorders. if there are no survivors those data recorders have beacons on them. so they will have under water microphones in the water seeking to detect that signal and that will help them hone in on the debris itself. it is rarely deeper than 50 meters there, 166 feet. that will help make things straight forward. dan rose, thank you gentlemen appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right something else we are washing of global imp...

Of similar type, something dramatic happens. we wont know what that is until they get the voice recorders, until they get the data recorders, and they analyze it. and that will be a combination of the malaysian authorities which will take the lead, the ntsb recognizing as the country of origin of the manufacturer, the british authorities because rolls royce manufactured the engines, the bea from france because -- therell be everybody will be involved in this. but we are so far off that procedure...