for speaking with us this morning. think about it, we're 23 days in on this thing without definitive answers about what happened to this flight. as he was talking about this black box, a lot of questions you had, as well. >> i went down to south florida and spoke with a ceo of a company who buys commercial planes and refurbishes them including malaysian airlines boeing 777. i asked him about the plane's data recorders and what is inside these things. >> they consist of three parts. you have the element which records. and the power unit in the back. >> abdul, these are the beacons that are sending out these pings. >> yes, they are. a sensor on the sides here activated by water. once those are activated, they will send out a ping signal that will be picked up by tracking devices that will look for these