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To figure that out. bottom line the so-called black boxes aren't perfect, even when they are found to be in good condition. they may not reveal the cause of the crash. on a plane they are tucked inside an insulated case surrounded by stainless steel designed to withstand temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees fahrenheit and catastrophic impact. after twa flight 800 went down in july 199612 minutes after takeoff from jfk's airport, the plane's black boxes were recovered, hardly a scratch on them, but they offered little. >> both the voice recorder and the data recorder terminated their operation...

Learn this. >> both the recorders stopped recording about six minutes before the aircraft actually hit the water. >> reporter: leaving investigators to wonder why they suddenly lost control of the plane. it was a fire they later found in the jet's entertainment system, but it took putting the plane back together, all 2 million pieces of it, back together. bottom line the so-called black boxes aren't perfect, even when they are found to be in good condition. they may not reveal the cause of the crash. on a plane they are tucked inside an insulated case surrounded by stainless steel designed to ...