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Without a trace while heading from malaysia to china. its not the first time something like this has happened. cnns martin savidge has been looking at other plane disasters shrouded in mystery. >> reporter: even in our world of satellites and cell phone, giant airliners can disappear. at least for a while. the last was air france flight 447 in 2009. the air bus 330 with 228 people aboard vanished beyond radar on a flight from rio de janeiro from paris. >> translator: people who go on the planes ...

Operation now is not to find anything other. the priority here is not to find anything other than those flight recorders. ive had no mention so far of a solar beacon being part of this. a solar beacon is something that drops in the ocean with the plane and transmits 30 days to tell searchers where it is. the problem with that idea is, if the plane -- the mystery about the crash, it happened instantaneously, without any chance for the decree to communicate anything wrong. if it happened in that w...

Place since the 90s and other accidents, but now one thing we do know is until we find the recorders we wont know whether this is a criminal investigation or whether it was a mechanical or malfunction of the aircraft. >> how rare is it to not find the wreckage with all these assets looking for the aircraft? >> well, its very unfortunate that five years after air france with the availability of the technology of deployable flight recorders which are used in the united states military that we stil...

The mix-up after friends and family contacted him through social media. he said his passport had been stolen last year. interpol confirmed today at least two passports were reported as lost or stolen. his one of them. they were used by passengers on that plane. flight recorders could prove key in this investigation. why one expert says we shouldnt have to wait for the plane to be found actually to learn what happened. spokesperson: the volkswagen passat tdi clean diesel

The jumbo jet that vanished 48 hours ago continues to be a huge mystery. primary focus will be to locate flight recorders. earlier i talk with mary skif organizations, a former inspector general with the department of transportation about that. search the ocean through the grid. the navy, submersibles will be looking for and listening for pingers from black box, cockpit voice recorder and data recorder. they give off an audible sound. they are powered by a battery. the battery lasts for about a ...

Until daylight tomorrow. certainly, many countries in the area and the united states are sending ships to help in the search. we know from previous planes lost over water that tracking the wreckage can take days and locating and recovering the flight recorders could take months or even years. the black boxes are capable of emitting signals that can be detected from under water. those flight recorders are vital to finding out what happened. until then, it is just speculation and, of course, for t...

Craig? >> we know its still just a few hours before the sun comes up there. have the search and rescue efforts -- have they stopped until the sun rises? >> reporter: theyve kind of half stopped. ships are still out, we understand. but airplanes have stopped their search until light comes up. many countries are helping, including the united states, sending ships and planes. we know from previous planes lost over water that tracking the wreckage can take days and locating the flight recorders can ...

Safety board beginning to rule out potential causes. investigators announced in a news conference today that the cockpit controls appeared to be working properly and likely played no role in the crash. flight recorders showed that the pilots received two warnings before impact and reports that the plane were descending to quickly. the two pilots were killed in the crash. well follow the developing story and well bring you the latest. >> looks like american households are changing. a recent study...

Fire, and smoldering and they werent able to get the black boxes. and now they have the data recorders. what have they heard? >> the flight recorders are so critical in gaining that valuable information about the final moments before the crash and they appeared to be badly damaged, but we just learned some good news tonight. there is data on those recorders. we do know that they were able to pull data off of those recorders there. and we know that the recorders captured the entire accident, the ...

As far as the debris found in the engine, that is not surprising either. its consistent with reports that the plane hit trees before crashing. now, today investigators were able to recover the flight recorders. they couldnt do that yesterday because part of the aircraft was still smouldering. you can see the recorder on the right badly damaged, covered in soot there. compare that to the recorder one month ago in the asiana crash. despite the damage, investigators say they are cautiously optimist...