identified. wolf. >> rene marsh reporting for us from washington. thank you. let's bring back jim sciutto along with miles o'brien and peter goals, tom quinn tes and richard quest. there were no distress calls from the plane and that potentially could be very significant. tell our viewers why. >> well, it could mean that there was something that happened that knocked out the electrical system which made it impossible for them to transmit. it could also mean that things happened very quickly. it also could mean that the crew was too busy with an aircraft that was compromised trying to keep it righted. the cockpit voice recorder which records what's going on inside the cockpit, which we're told -- i'm not totally certain i've heard reports that the black boxes have been found. there's no reason to believe they will not be recovered. it will be telling in this case.