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Welcome back to "hardball." the human toll for the crash of germanwings flight 9525 was evident today with victims identified from 20 countries. at least three were americans aboard, including a mother and daughter from virginia emily selke had recently graduated from drexler university. there is one gaping mystery. what happened in the french alps that caused a plane to crash in clear weather? one key piece of evidence is the flight's cockpit voice recorder which investigators said was recovered and is yielding some information. >> we just succeeded in getting an audio file which contains use...

And having a full understanding of it in conjunction with all the other information coming in particular from the other recorded parameters will take weeks and even months. >> translator: so we've heard that the envelope has been found. can that be confirmed? >> translator: no, i'm sorry. i cannot confirm that. i can't confirm having found any actual element of this black box. >> translator: you seem optimistic despite everything. after the basis of what you've heard from this first black box, can that be true? >> translator: i am optimistic. number one, at least we have this audio file that w...

Lasted for ten minutes, even longer than first reported. >> they had reached the cruising altitude for a while, 38,000 feet, so around 9:30, the last message emitted by the plane issued by the plane to the control center was a routine message confirming the instructions given by the control center which was it was authorized to continue on to the point you see. >> everything absolutely normal. radar records show that's when normal ended. ten-minute descent that was controlled as investigators put it, as if the pilots or the plane's computers were still completely in charge. but for some reason...

Or deformed but we haven't heard anything about any reduced to tiny little pieces that are scattered. >> can you tell us exactly, specify in english, what this data you have found on the first black box shows and when we can expect additional information to be made available to the public? >> as i said in french earlier, we just succeeded in getting an audio file which contains usable sounds and voices. we have not yet fully understood and worked on it to be able to say, okay this is starting at this precise point in flight. this is at this precise point in flight. we hear such person saying t...

We've seen these kind of small debris also in the case of the accident in mali last summer. >> translator: you've explained that you have an audio file that is usable and has been listened to by your technicians, so usable but very deteriorated, we saw the state of the black box. >> translator: well, these recorders, it's a digital technology. so the file is an audio file which is recorded in a digital form. so if it's usable, it's unlikely. i don't have actual details because the work hasn't yet been finished. it's unlikely that there will be serious deterioration in quality. and and. >> tran...