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Crashes and are very robust. >> the bottom line is, when you hear that sound, which well play again for mary schiavo, its not clear if they will be able to say if thats a sound from a bomb or something else? >> the air frame coming apart, they will be able to say it was something very fast and very loud. >> all right. thank you very much, miguel. "outfront" now, mary schiavo. you just heard that sound, just that split second of a sound. would that be enough? >> well, its certainly not enough t...

Distortion and thats telltale that something happened that was very quick, very loud. >> reporter: the voice recorder then indicates all power was cut to the system. >> its not just about the voices on the voice data recorder. >> no. its everything. you have to be a real detective and use every bit of information that is recorded on the recorder. >> reporter: investigators found the power cut itself this five millisecond investigation assigned all four of the planes generators simultaneously sei...

>> reporter: is it a bird, plane, a man in a jet pack flying around the statute of liberty. >> it was awesome. dream come true. i was having a blast. >> reporter: the actual blast off from a boat was fairly gentle, the founder of jet pack aviation david is the test pilot and yes, he and his chief designer had to get all kinds of approvals to pull this off. >> the faa asked what is it? is it? a jet? is that? >> reporter: the flight lasted about five minutes, the pilot uses hand controls and his b...

Showed not one blip but four before the plane was coming apart. and then 46 1/2 seconds after that loud noise, flight 103 crashed into the area surrounding lockerbie scotland. 270 people died. 11 of them were on the ground. >> its pretty stunning. and when you hear the quickness of that sound and slow it down, its still so quick. this is what they are looking at, this right here, one of the flight voice recorders. >> its a flight data recorder. its an older model, probably more similar to what w...

American-made engines but ntsb says they are still waiting. when they see the wreckage, they may be extremely limited in what they are allowed to see. ren rene marsh is "outfront." what are you learning? >> the ntsb is prepared to help but they wont launch until they receive specific information about when and where the planes engines will be brought for examination. now, the russian passenger planes pratt and whitney engines were made here in the united states and that automatically allows the ...

Different locations. john bussey, from "the wall street journal," managing editor there is with us. theres a lot yet to learn. >> a lot of ifs, a lot of ifs. the presumption it is still shot down. we still dont even know that for sure. it looks like it but there are a lot of ifs. there will be a lot of information coming from this plane. there will be satellite tracking. there will be ground radar tracking. there will be a black box this time for this malaysian jet. shep, look, ukraine itself sh...