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>> jim hall was chairman of the n ntsb when the recommendation was made, after the investigation of several cashes determined that there was not enough cockpit data to determine what went wrong. >> the cameras would be on the instruments and on the manipulations that are made. >> we see the edging and edging more towards taking away way the privacy of the pilots. we are performing our job up there and i would rather be focused on doing my job than people seeing me. >> i hope that we won't wait until we have a similar incident resolving a united states airline and united states citizens to take...

Would not be available for viewing by anyone. >> jim hall was chairman of the ntsb when the recommendation was made. after the investigation of several crashes, found there wasn't enough cockpit data to determine what went wrong. >> cameras would not be on the face of either of the pilot or the co-pilot. they would focus on the instruments and on the manipulations that are made. >> we constantly see edging towards taking away privacy from the pilots. i would rather focus on doing my job that what people are seeing. >> though others see this as a priority more than privacy. >> i hope we don't w...

Help search for the black box is heading into the search zone. let go live to will thunder. >> reporter: kate, the countdown is on, less than one hour until the scheduled department for the "shield," that will tow the equipment along the sea floor listening to the cockpit data. it can only detect the sound within a one-mile radius. the plan is to get the ship in place. if and wehen debris is found, they can zoom in to the area. chris? >> there's so much frustration from families and others to why no discovery yet.

Black boxes. we don't know if that will be the case. we have one of the most sophisticated lags. because of that one-third of their league is for essentially foreign governments. how fast can they analyze it? the ntsb investigators could potentially once they get the black boxes get a read-out of that first critical data within 24 hours. >> so how exactly do they get the information off the boxes? >> so when they do, if and when they pull them out of the salt water, what they'll want to do is place it in fresh water. and they will place it in that water for that trip to the lab. then they flus...

>> uh-huh. >> we'll never know what might have gone on if the voice recorder's found other than the last two hours. >> that's correct. that's correct. that's all we would know about it. but that could be valuable information. but what would have been more valuable is if the flight voice recorder had been going all that distance. this issue of privacy came up when there was a big push to put cameras in the cockpit and record the video of the pilots. >> they didn't want that. >> throughout the whole flight. no. i can kind of empathize with that because the fact it's stressful to be up there in t...