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Stage and there will be other stages unfortunately, and that's when you know depending on what information we learn, you can deal with the families in a different way. >> thank you, good to have you on the program. appreciate the expertise this evening. quick break. we're going to be back and talk about the crews and looking for those flight recorders. those critical data recorders. what information could be revealed about this flight. cnn's special live coverage of missing asia airlines flight 8501 continues.

Narrow it down, put the pinger locators in the water, find the pinger noise, which is the easiest search to do the first search then you can start doing the side scan sonar, pick up the data of the debris field and then map that and go get some high resolution pictures and then send your salvage divers down. it's shallow enough there that they can use divers to recover black boxes. so that's a much faster easier operation than using rovs. but when they start pulling the debris up they'll be using probably some robotic gear and a lot of salvage gear. but at 100, 150 feet it's deep there's some ...

Rachel crane explains what we can expect from the voice and data recorders. >> the search for survivors always comes first. but just as important is the search for answers. the why and the how. often those answers are found in the black box. since the '60s, all commercial airplanes have been required to have one on board. now the name is a little misleading because they're actually orange. and when we're talking about a black box, we're talking about two different boxes. one being the cockpit voice recorder and the other be being the data recorder. they have to be crashproof. black boxes can s...

The mystery of what happened to the airasia jet is renewing calls for better tracking devices aboard airliners. cnn business correspondent alison kosik looked into the available technology. >> reporter: right now when an airplane disappears the story of what went wrong vanishes with the black box. but what if we had those answers all along? >> we would know where the aircraft has gone where it is and we would have information on what happened in the meantime. >> reporter: canadian company flight makes live streaming data recorders that send information in real time. it's part of a satellite-ba...

All were involved at some point in time, and they all, according to the records made the wrong decisions at some point in time flying that plane into the water thinking they needed to bring the nose up when, in fact, they had to put the nose down. is it your experience, do you think here that maybe there was some ice, maybe the computer might have shut off and they were kind of stuck? >> of course it's possible, trace. we again, we need to get the recorders. the recorders will have things like the outside air temperature is actually one of the things that these modern digital flighting data re...