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Technical condition with two experienced and trained pilots was involved in such a terrible accident. >> reporter: finding the second black box will be critical to unlock the mystery of what brought down the jet. on the flight data recorder investigators will get a second by second break dlthdown of how the systems were functioning. was everything working or was there mechanical failure? the status for this piece of the plane is unclear. frances president said this. >> translator: a second black...

If in fact the last eight or ten minutes of that cockpit voice recorder has no sound from human beings the pilot or co-pilot or anyone else for that matter, tell our viewers what that means. >> well it certainly fits a scenario where you had some sort of decompression event, wolf. some event where the pilots were overcome by hypoxia, lack of oxygen. we saw this crash, this type of crash a few years ago over greece. the helios air crash, decompression was gradual, the crew eventually lost conscio...

Said there could be an erroneous indication from one piece of the electronic gear in the airplane to another set of computers on the a320 that could make the airplane believe its about to stall. if its about to stall, the airbus says im not going to let you do that im going to push the nose over of the airplane and try and get the nose lower and descend to keep the airplane from stalling. >> you think that potentially could have happened. let me get peter to react to that. what do you think of t...

Families how this plane went down. tonight, investigators are mapping the debris field in the french alps where the aircraft is described as obliterated. recovery teams are struggling to get to the wreckage spread far apart starting in an altitude of about 6,000 feet. their challenge, navigating vertical slopes and deep ravines is enormous. >> they may have little cliff edges that they may have to pick things off of. as they descend, they may have to stop similar to this gather things put them i...

>> one final question before we move on because we have a lot more to discuss. a preliminary check by u.s. law enforcement agencies of the manifest of this plane, they found no criminal links. investigators havent ruled out anything potentially including criminal activity or terrorism. >> im not too sure about the reports that they havent found any links. i dont think they would tell us if they did find links right now. its a preliminary investigation. its very early. they wont tell you one way ...

Board. so far, the cockpit voice recorder which records sounds and cockpit conversations has been found, although the external orange casing is damaged, french aviation investigators assess the computer chips inside which contain an audio recording of the cockpit during the entire flight. investigators didnt reveal when the pilots voices can be heard during the critical final ten minutes. after meeting with rescue workers and thanking them for their efforts, french president francois hollande ge...

They believe the plane flew to the end and the debris field suggests there wasnt an explosion in mid flight. were back with our analysts. there was are three fbi agents on the ground investigating with interpole and their french spanish, german counterparts. >> the fbi agents would be gathering data about the passengers the manifest any other information, evidence at the site that the plane exploded. the fact the debris field is littered with tiny pieces indicates it was probably not blown out o...

That can change in an instant. >> it can be sunny and a bluebird day and an hour later, clouds are coming over a ridge that you didnt see. next thing you know its blowing 20 30 40 miles an hour and snows coming down on you. rains coming down on you. that will negate any kind of helicopter activity. >> reporter: those conditions stand between investigators and their ultimate goal to examine pieces of this plane and determine what happened to it. experts say if they cant get enough information fro...

This caused the safety agency to issue a safety director warning about the possibility of an error with sensors on the plane. could something like that have happened in this particular case? >> unlikely wolf. the incident you are talking about, known as the angle of attack its unlikely. it would have frozen over if bad weather or freedzzing conditions. most people i speak to are discounting this idea of the protection and uncommanded dissent. airbus put out a fix. theyre aware of it. theyre awar...

Clues about why the flight from barcelona to dusseldorf germany crashed midflight. >> we really do need that flight data recorder as well to provide a full view of what happened to that aircraft just before impact. >> reporter: frances interior minister told local tv bfm tv we cannot completely rule out terrorism. but he said its not considered the most likely explanation for the wreck. there was no distress call from the aircraft but at this press conference the head of the investigation team s...