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Hampering the effort to recover more victims. bad weather is hindering the search, as well for the planes flight data and cockpit voice recorders, the so-called black boxes. the pingers that help locate the boxes have about 25 days of battery power left. the devices and the wreckage will be key to determining the cause of the crash. 90 ships and aircraft were involved in this search. right now more vessels are expected to arrive by tomorrow and among them a ship from singapore with enhanced unde...

Continue to rake in small debris. lousy weather is hampering the search. divers cannot confirm a shadow on the sea floor is actually the plane. it may take a week to locate those so-called black boxes. of course they contain the flight data and voice recorders that will likely explain exactly what caused that plane to go down. lets get the latest. andrew stevens is in surabaya indonesia. hi, andrew. >> reporter: thanks very much. agony for the families. the weather over the search zone is severe...

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>> its a gruesome process, especially for the families that have to deal with this identification process. but the way it plays out is that the two boxes, the black boxes we refer to all the time, one is digital flight data. that has all sorts of information. flight controls, altitude, speed, trajectory. it has thousands of parameters. that will be combined with the cockpit voice recorder, which not only gives all the voices from the cockpit and transmissions to air traffic control, it also prov...

Passengers would be the other come poement. but david is right, if your hands are full and youve been through a dramatic upset of some kind thats possible. what this implies, though is that the aircraft had its aerodynamic capabilities but no power. jet engines have literally been doused out by so much moisture in the air, so its something that is to be considered but would be born out very quickly by the flight data and cockpit voice recorder. >> which we dont have but hoping searchers will rec...

Were hearing is even the sonar has not been able to verify whether this is basically the ground zero or not. >> andrew stevens in surabaya, indonesia, thank you so much. appreciate it. apart from recovering victims, search teams are most eager to find the planes flight data and cockpit voice recorders, the so-called black boxes. until we have those, experts are left to form theories, conjecture about flight 8501s demise based on each new piece of evidence. that brings me to david soucie in new y...

That is the way i would be leaning. >> aircraft hitting in tact. we are seeing bodies on the surface here which indicates that the fuselage at least did not sink in tact. >> exactly. it would have broken off by the wings. >> we know andrew stevens is reporting authorities are telling us that it is 40 meters deep the water there. that means they can look quickly for the fuselage and also for the flight data and voice orders. >> the towed ping locaters are on the way. they will expedite it. it is ...

To get there. murky water. talk about some of those challenges in terms of getting to the actual debris. >> well youve got to find it first of all. well theyve done that youve got to find the main debris field, well, mary as elgabtegantly said youll work backwards until you find it and then you go into the water and start searching. in 447, they found the debris field, they found where the fuselage was. but they still had several months before they could find the black boxes. because after, ther...

Side about five miles. it should be 4,300. >> the planes speed drops dangerously low. it begins to dive in heavy snow. the pilot overcorrects. a fatal mistake. >> obviously the initial reaction to the warning was incorrect. >> the jet crashes into a home in buffalo new york killing all 49 people on board. >> we put our lives in the hands of people we assume that the faa and the airlines are properly training. >> both black boxes, the cockpit voice reporteder and flight data reporter divulge pani...