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You? >> told me that the engine speed came up. >> reporter: if somebody gets a truck and doesnt start, what could potentially happen? >> they could be stuck literally out in the cold. >> reporter: in a worst-case scenario, a vehicle that wont start or an engine that in just too much snow could put a stranded driver in a life or death situation which explains why in torture team wants to solve problems here before they get to your driveway. the mckinley climate chamber built during world war ii w...

Separate whats known as a black box or a data recorder from the -- >> flight data recorder. >> we know they can withstand a whole lot. assuming they are able to quickly recover those, what is the most important information theyll be looking for to try to figure out how this could have happened? >> you look at the flight data recorder records parameters engine speed, temperatures flight control positions, attitude of the aircraft air speed, different flight computers, and what they were sensing. ...

Recorders, theyre going to want to know what type of conversation was going on in the cockpit, were they just trying to navigate around the weather, was there a malfunction, well be able to hear the engine speed, whether it was constant whether it was trailing off. well be able to hear whether there was unlikely bird strike a smashed windshield. well be able to hear any alerts or alarms that went off in the cockpit, and well also be able to hear some of the weather in the form of hail -- >> poss...

A lot about the so-called black box. theres two things. theres the flight data record enthen theres the audio recorder of the cockpit audio recorder. what are the first thing search and rescue and investigators are going to be looking at? >> once they find these recorders, theyre going to want to know what type of conversation was going on in the cockpit, were they just trying to navigate around the weather? was there a malfunction? well be able to hear the engine speed, whether it was constant,...

Thats the platform you see here on top of the ship. right now, the search area concentrated on some 75,000 square miles in the indian ocean. but time is running out to find the exact location. officials say the latest signals were weaker than pings detected over the weekend, suggesting the batteries in the black boxes are running out. buzz conroy has brought along a replica of a black box. great to see you. >> good to see you. >> you have the black box. which one? because theres two that theyre ...

Every day, we receive hundreds of questions from our viewers who want a better understanding about what it is that is not being done in the search for flight 370. lets bring back our panel of experts to tackle some of these questions. our aviation analyst, mark weise, and peter goelz and law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes. lets get right to the questions. tony tweets, why this long before releasing the transcript to the public? no doubt the malaysian authority hindered success of the search. >...

Sometime from now doesnt mean its still not valuable. right? just means it makes it difficult to find in the interim? >> well, what they would be doing is looking for the tail section of the aircraft, which is where these boxes are kept, and hope they would still be in the tail or nearby, and they could be recovered quite a while from now. a year or two from now. and provide the data. the voice recorder, however, only records the last two hours of conversation. its a tape loop that just tapes ov...

Or edr. >> in those kind of accidents edr data will be invaluable. >> reporter: sean dennis is a forensic engineer who reconstructs car crashes for law firms and insurance companies. >> its hidden way up underneath the dash. >> yep. yep. yep. >> reporter: it is tied into the air bag system and records two to five seconds of pre-crash data, things like engine speed, throttle, brakes, accelerator, seat belts. >> we see here 2.3 seconds before -- before the crash this person, this driver has gone f...

Ocean if theyre lucky is a black box. and as weve said, theyre not black, theyre orange because thats the mandate from the federal government since the 1960s. so you can spot one of these easily in wreckage. in a plane wreckage. but specifically, heres the pinger on the end of it that now has about, were told, less than two weeks of mandatory battery life in it. it may be going longer than that, but it is required to go for 30 days, and weve now used up more than half of that time already. in th...