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Checks. they're going to then bring in expert voice analysis people to determine whose voice is saying what. in other words, where's the captain speaking where's the co-pilot speaking. that's going to take a lot of time. then they want to marry that data. they want to marry that cockpit voice recorder with the flight data recorder. that's why it's so critical to get that. this is a typical flight data recorder. however, they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. you see the one in the pictures from france. it's a smaller version of it. it does the same thing. it's about 25 hours worth of data...

>> let's bring in tom costello who covers aviation and with us faa chief of staff michael gold if farm. tom, what are some of the most pressing questions, including ours facing investigators this morning? >> i think you hit the top ones. now with the cockpit recorder they might want to find the flight data recorder. it will tell them a whole list of items everything from altitude to air speed to a vertical acceleration heading, pitch, roll performs all of that. but this morning, they still have the same questions they had last night. a disaster now strewn over the french alps may have started ...