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B.e.a. of france which extracted the data on air france 447. it will be complicated and difficult. >> it's a british -- excuse me, it's a u.s.-made plane. it's a boeing 777, but it was owned by malaysia airlines. so it's a little complicated. what i hear you saying, though, richard, under no circumstances given their lack of experience in dealing with this sophisticated black box like this should malaysia get first crack at it. >> malaysia wouldn't want to, i wouldn't imagine. this isn't something that you tinker about with. you don't have a go at it. the malaysian investigative authority will...

Is doing if we have the flight data recorder we will know how fast it went, how high it went, we will know all about the plane. we will have everything we need to know what the plane did. the trouble is the motivation for why it did whatever it did is contained in the voice recorder and the voice recorder is only good for two hours. this flight went many hours past that. >> so it records over? it loops. >> it's a loop tape, it works the same way. the event when it happened, when he turned around, descended down and flew south, that information is not going to be recorded. unless someone is tal...

As part of their core playbook. they're obsess ld with aviation as one of the threat factors. it does raise the issue. no matter what happens here, no matter what we find, this is a teachable moment where we've identified vulnerability that needs to be addressed. if you're flying aircraft over a certain way, over with a certain number of passenger, should bit the case you cannot manually disable the transponders. safety issues have to be addressed but it's an important counterterrorism issue that has to be addressed. >> tell me about the data blocks, what we've called the black boxes, the data...

Questions that couldn't be resolved because the executives would not cooperate. there ongoing investigations here today was a moment where the two executives are put through a humiliating process. they don't want to cooperate and they gave them quite a lot to think about. >> kelly o'donnell live with us. thanks a lot. new details from the ntsb on the deadly racing aircraft crash. in nevada, that tops our look around the nation. investigators say they are looking at evidence that a piece fell off an aircraft as it climbed in reno. they are checking the on board data box and camera equipment fro...

Standpoint, not simply lawyers pushing paper. jon: a lot of our viewers might not know that prior to coming to congress in the year 2000, you had a background in automotive electronics, you were the chairman of the consumer electronics association, the company that you founded manufactured automotive electronic components and security components. is there a feeling here that some of these electronic throttles and so forth were simply not up to the task that they were supposed to do? >> well, it's very clear that between the body control module and engine control module on the data box, the thr...