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As relates to the second black box they're looking for, the flight data recorder which looks similar to the first one, this is 1300 pieces of data on that fdr, altitude and speed, vertical acceleration heading, pitch, roll all of the parameters, flight parameters engine performance that tell us what was going on in the plane as well as whether there was any sort of decompression event. >> captain cox, let me bring you in. looking at the debris field, hearing the description of pieces being in some cases smaller than a small car there, again, we are waiting to hear more information. but the fac...

>> amazing. i thought we knew so much more. it's great having you experts on. robert hager, as always, my friend, and captain john cox. great to have you on this friday night. we're dam close back to square one anyway. coming up, anguish and incompetence with the search for flight 370 heading into the third week now. who's looking out for those families and who's holding the malaysian government accountable? plus, has any potential 2016 candidate for president had a busier week than hillary clinton? she may be a year away from announcing her candidacy but if you look at what she's been up to...

Accurate, of everything that was said between pilots and the controllers. we've had just the last phrase "all right, good night." that was the last thing we heard from the plane. but they say they got the transcript of ten minutes of conversation before the plane took off and then 40 minutes in flight and then up to -- and it goes up to the very broint they say "all right, good night." and people who've looked at it say it shows nothing but normal activity. just routine transmissions. what that would tell you if it's a real strint that nothing untoward came down in the cabin up to that point. ...

Other than a catastrophic event that prevented further communication. >> yes. >> some man-made decision was involved? >> it indicates right now, the evidence indicates that a knowledgeable individual had interaction with a computer and beyond that there was no communication. there was electrical power on the airplane, we know that. we know that there was electrical power on the airplane and available for several hours meaning greater than six. so put all of that together, it reduces the likelihood of a mechanical cataclysmic event on the airplane or an on board fire or some of the other specul...

Into the south indian ocean a little after 8:00 a.m. that same morning. what did happen on that plane? what is there for relatives and the beloved to contemplate for the rest of their lives and for us who travel by air to imagine, to consider each time we head skyward? yes, kuala lumpur, we have a problem there is just so much we don't know about malaysia airlines flight 370. can a 777 just disappear? can we be left not knowing what happened even when it was still flying? robert hager is a former nbc aviation correspondent. and captain john cox is an nbc aviation analyst. he was a commercial p...