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Suicide but all the evidence points to a suicide. >> unfortunately we can't put these -- this data recorders in people's heads. pilots. only put them -- >> -- right. >> inside the cockpit. but that we have different rules here in the united states. you can't leave a cockpit lone and that maybe that would, you know, could have possibly maybe prevented what happened in france. >> well you would at least have had a chance to do something about it the pilot sitting in the seat having to get up to counter someone else in the cockpit in order to commit an act like this. would have to extradite himse...

Into that maybe when the door opened when one of them came out to use the restroom someone else could have gotten into the cockpit. that's unknown at this point. we have not heard what conversations took place in that cockpit. >> it's interesting, the french president francois hollande said today they are looking at the interior trying to find the interior of the flight data recorder. this is a flight data recorder. the outside, they apparently found the shell of it but haven't found the important stuff that's inside. how unusual is that? >> it is unusual. these data recorders as you see are v...

Wrong. frank ses, thanks so much. we're going to talk about that now and the hunt for answers. it really does center around the plane's two flight recorders, the so-called black boxes. data has been retrieved from the plane's cockpit voice recorder. moments ago at a news conference investigators said they've not yet analyzed the voices on the recording. meanwhile, they've not yet been able to locate the flight data recorder. mike after listening to the french press conference and talking about the fact that one has been retrieved of the data recorders, do you think that will be enough to hel...

Are not black, they are really orange. >> this is really extraordinary. i have seen many data recorders and voice recorders. this is hardened stainless steel. it is armored to withstand tremendous pressures and to be deformed like this just confirms what a tremendous amount of pressure. but the data material is there. >> is inside. >> that material apparently has survived. the french have said they've got the sounds they've got voices they've got alarms. >> this is what's left of the cockpit voice recorder. they are still looking for the flight data recorder. stand by for a moment. coming up a...

That can change in an instant. >> it can be sunny and a bluebird day and an hour later, clouds are coming over a ridge that you didn't see. next thing you know it's blowing 20 30 40 miles an hour and snow's coming down on you. rain's coming down on you. that will negate any kind of helicopter activity. >> reporter: those conditions stand between investigators and their ultimate goal to examine pieces of this plane and determine what happened to it. experts say if they can't get enough information from the cockpit voice or flight data recorders they may have to piece this aircraft back together...