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So its intended to provide all the information that john mentioned before from wall street is the engine information, the speed information, it tells us about vibration information. if there was a bomb or something that happened dramatically on board or a fire even would cause enough vibration that that data would have been sent back. theres 10,000 data points a second that are being sent through that acars system. so i find it difficult to believe that those pings contain data. i do believe tha...

Example of the governments and companies having too much access to our private lives. doug mckelway with the news from washington. what kind of information do these black boxes retain? >> well, shep, the good news is they dont retain voices, the cockpit trans missions or passenger compartment transmissions or how many times you reach for your big gulp or your latte. they do retain speed information, gas and brake pedal inputs. lateral accelerations. steering turns and stuff like that. one expert...

Tell me what your best guess is, what happened here? was it icing that led to all of this? was it just a mechanical failure? was it anything having to do with the pilot? >> i think its a combination of both. there had to be something that started this whole process. they were flying through an area of lousy weather. there was some turbulence. they knew there was some turbulence. they started to circumnavigate the weather by making a left turn. they then lost their airspeed information so they di...