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>> very, very quickly. if we don't get the data recorders, the so-called black boxes, there l this essentially remain a mystery? >> i suspect it probably will. i'm not an expert on finding sunken black boxes but it seems an awesome task after the air france 447 took two years and they knew exactly where that aircraft was and in this case they don't. so they really must try and locate those black boxes whilst there's some battery life on the flight deck recorder. it's only got a range of about 10 kilometers so you've got to literally be on top of it to find it and the faster they get throughout...

A third party or the aircraft could have been commandeered by a third party, someone who would have the technical knowledge and skills necessary to operate the aircraft themselves without the crew. so any of those scenarios is plausible at this point. >> cary walsh, if this plane is in the southern indian ocean, the topography underwater, how much does that play into the difficulty of retrieving the ever-so-important black boxes? >> well, it's going to play a lot into the difficulty. the area they're searching is gigantic and unless they're able to get people on the water and actually pick up ...

Getting worse, the cloud is low, in some areas down at sea level, making visibility, obviously, very difficult. this is going to hamper the search, christine. >> talk more about that weather, because that is something that searchers did not need right now. they need to be able to see what's out there, they need to be able to deploy assets to find it. they need to find those, you know, those so-called black boxes. we need information from what was happening in that cockpit and to the engines of that plane. tell us a little more about the weather and what we're expecting. will it hamper the sear...

Empty. it's a difficult place to see anything unfortunately. >> that map we just put up shows you, you have to turn the earth almost on its side to get a look at what we're talking about here. thank you to chris hatfield. we'll see both of you again in a few minutes to talk more about this search. while search teams from around the globe are scouring the oceans for any sign of flight 370, investigators back home are examining ways to keep this from happening again and one way would involve doing away with the famous so-called black boxes. more after this break. [ bubbles, baby giggling ]

On the surface. very carefully back on how the currents might have taken it and so forth. see if you can find the main body of wreckage, and down there with that would be the so-called black boxes. but then you've got to locate them precisely, so you need sonar, if the pinger is still going. and eventually, you're going to have to have unmanned subs, if they ever do locate them, unmanned subs that go down and cameras show, and when they spot them, they can bring them up. a tedious job. >> one of the things we have to point out is even if they find the debris identified in the satellite images,...