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Airasia officials say the focus now is on the recovery effort. the search area is about six miles from the plane's last known location. analysts say finding the cockpit voice and data recorders, the so-called black boxes, is key to trying to figure out what went wrong. a u.s. navy ship has arrived in the search area. "the uss sampson" was dispatched following a request from the indonesian government. the pentagon says another ship "the uss ft. worth" is also getting ready to deploy. the discovery of debris and bodies is devastating news for the families of the passengers and crew. while watchi...

>> i paint them red. our robots are red. the same color that plane is. because they're easier to see on the surface. they stand out on the ocean versus -- it's not natural to have a red object. life jackets are painted red. >> we saw during mh370 was a number of the submersibles were either red you see the so-called black boxes. they're orange in color. they were yellow though. is that -- >> yellow's another good color. actually some people are starting to use a lime green. but again, red is such a non-ocean color military boats are painted gray to blend in with the horizon and the ocean. whit...

Difficult. once we get a good fix on the location it will be relatively easy to recover the recorders which will give us a wealth of information about what happened. >> the two so-called black boxes. the plane itself though, what condition do you suppose it will be in? >> most likely it's pretty well broken up structurally into the -- the wings will probably be together and the fuselage will be badly broken up. much like twa 800 that crashed off the coast of long island. it was pretty well broken up by the ocean, by the impact and as it settled down the pieces were spread out. >> will investig...

Continuing our coverage of the missing airliner that is air asia flight 8501. joining us from new york is forensic odd wroe expert paul beginsberg president of pro odd wroe labs. we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves here but we do want to talk about the possibility of flight data recorders and what they could possibly tell us about what may have happened to this flight once they are discovered. let me ask you this paul. first of all, what is it that the first thing the investigators will want to know from these so-called black boxes, and i should point out there's really two. there'...

251 bodies have been recovered from the crash site of malaysia airlines flight 17. they're being held in refrigerated railroad cars there. separatists are keeping the remains apparently until they say international experts can examine them. >> and those separatists are also refusing to turn over information about flight data recorders that might have been pulled from the debris. these images here from the reuters news agency shows a worker with what appears to be one of the plane's so-called black boxes. international investigators have not verify that the recorders have in fact been recovered...