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What caused the plane to plummet into the water minutes after take-off is still a mystery, but a recording indicates air traffic control lost contact with the pilot very early on.
They're hoping to learn more clues about what exactly happened aboard this flight, even though there is this extraordinary atc recording, the conversation between russell and the flight tower. but they were not able to recover the cockpit voice recorder, only the base of it was recorded. the top portion is missing. investigators are no longer on the island. the island is actually about a mile behind me here. the recovery now is what's going to be taking place. the way the ntsb described it, ryan, is that there are these thick woods. this plane went through about hundreds of feet of wooded area...
Right. so let me ask you this. because we do -- they have released transcripts. what would you learn from the audio as opposed to learning from the transcripts? >> well, it may well be possible once the proper team of experts is assembled to discern who is speaking at each turn. typically in the u.s. and many other countries the pilot flying the aircraft is not the one talking on the radio. that could help. and we can also get a baseline from prior recordings whether they be home videos or other types of recordings, voice mails, voice mail greetings, and compare those voices, certain parameter...