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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 ...

Out. bottom line, the so-called black boxes aren't perfect. and they're not black either. they're usually orange. on an airplane, they're tucked inside an insulated case and surrounded by stainless steel. built to withstand temperatures high as 2,000 degrees fahrenheit and catastrophic impact. after twa flight 200 went down after 12 minutes after takeoff from new york's jfk airport, the plane's black boxes were recovered, but they offered little. >> both the voice recorder and the data recorder terminated their operation within a nanosecond of each other. when the explosion took place. >> repo...

But it took putting the plane back together all two million pieces of it to figure that out. bottom line the so-called black boxes aren't perfect. and they're not black either. they're usually orange. on an airplane they're tucked inside an insulated case and surrounded by stainless steel. they're built to withstand temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees fahrenheit and catastrophic impact. after twa flight 800 went down in july 1996 just 12 minutes after takeoff from new york's jfk airport, the plane's black boxes were recovered but they offered little. >> both the voice recorder and the data r...

>> reporter: this is the sound of a pilot in trouble. that was the pilot of swissair flight 111 talking to air traffic control just minutes before he crashed into the atlantic ocean in 1998. everyone on board was killed. when crash investigators found the plane's black boxes at the bottom of the ocean, they were stunned. >> 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 which also caused ...