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Trying to find survivors, the ntsb has a different job. tear job is to try to determine what happened, why it happened, and, if necessary, to then instigate changes that would prevent a tragedy like this from ever happening again. at their briefing last night, they pointed out this vessel has on board something very similar to what we have all become very knowledgeable of, like a flight data recorder. only in this case, they call eight voyage data recorder. and that device, apparently, records e...

Catastrophic event struck it. >> that information would be vital for the ntsb investigation. right now they do not have a lot to go on. but to find it, you pretty much have to find the ship. thats believed to be in very deep water. again like the flight data recorders, there is something called a pinger. the data recorder has one t. batteries have a time frame of 30 days i asked if they have been listening and have they heard anything? the answer so far is. john, christine. >> such a sat story. ...

And to prevent another one. while they are here in jacksonville, they have a full team looking at e-mails and radiotransmissions, maintenance records, but their ultimate goal is to find the ship itself and thats difficult. its believed to be resting at the bottom of the ocean three miles deep, 15,000 feet. they will try to find it with the help of the coast guard and navy. it they do find it, they will try to recover the voyage data recorder. it gives them 12 hours of data on the ship before it ...

Quickly. good question. miranda asks why dont we have live cam ares on planes to when we detect something wrong we can help the innocent and take over and help? >> the airlines dont want it. i dont know one that shot 149 people at one time. >> that could be live sent to some place. weve got the technology. they have to do it. less a question for you from bob. why is the second black box -- this is for you les -- so hard to find if pinging like its supposed to? could the pinger be damaged? >> wel...

Cal questions. where is the plane and what caused it to vanish? an official report on the disappearance of flight 370 reveals the pinger batteries on one of two black boxes expired long before. >> the family members -- >> reporter: lawyers representing 27 of the victims families say that may have compromised the search. >> the balancettery pinger expired, its another dagger in the heart of the families. >> reporter: the airline admits the maintenance oversight but denies it hampered the search b...

That the battery on one of the black boxes or the pinger if you will, was not operable. but in the grand scheme of things, you still had the second black box you could have identified if we knew where the wreckage was you could have found those boxes because theyre probably within close proximity to each other in the wreckage. >> and what about the fact that they spent so much time in those early days going the wrong direction, thinking that the plane in doubled back and expanding a search area ...

Out not to be pings at all, it was the wrong frequency. so there are a lot of missteps. and the pinger batteries might not have made a difference in the long run anyway, but they shouldnt ever be allowed to be expired. >> interesting what this report is saying and not saying. officials say the pilot and the crew showed no unusual signs of stress. does that rule out, for example, true pilot error or pilot suicide? >> well, i think it does because you need to have evidence of a crime if youre sayi...

Have not looked at the clock today and you think you have an extra hour. >> that could of happened, by the way! >> it could have, yes. >> im joe johns in for victor black well. >> im christi paul. one year after malaysia airlines flight 370 van issued without a trace, investigators say the planes captain and crew showed no signs of stress before it took off. >> we just received hundreds of pages of the first interim report from the malaysian government. among these new details, the planes ping...

Looking at here. >> richard, here we are, they say a week and a half since the plane went down. no fuselage. no black boxes yet found. in relatively shallow water. >> no. doesnt surprise me. i was looking at paula hancocks report from the ship. you have to look out and see the vastness of the area. >> conditions. >> conditions. vastness of the area. in the right area. we know that. it is just a matter of, with the technology we are using today. in terms of tracking the air craft. we can discuss ...

>> thats very good news but the better news is the fact that the other pinger was replaced with a competing model. if that was manufactured this year it would have a 90 day battery in it because tso 21 has changed o changed to make 90 days. we may have a reprieve in and a message now from tony fernandez to confirm that or not. >> david gallo, one official thought perhaps the black boxes could be buried by mud. just how much would that or could that mufl the sound of pings, could it make it so th...