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That they're able to cull together, they still may not be able to find that one piece that brought the plane down in the first place. >> let's get back to our panel now. also joining us is geoffrey thomas. i want to get to mary quickly. mary, we may not have to put this plane back together. i've asked you this question before and you've answered it. if the data recorders are found and the information is intact, which you think it will be once they are found, the plane, they won't want to reassemble this airplane. >> right. that's correct. and in most crash investigations they do not reassemble...

Plane. any hope of unraveling the mystery and the fate of its 239 passengers and crew rests on two black boxes, the flight and data recorders. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals we are detecting are from the black box on mh-370. >> reporter: if they find them, the question remains, who gets the black boxes and who will lead the investigation to uncover what really happened to flight 370. typically following a crash, the country of origin for the airliner, in this case, malaysia, is tasked with taking charge of the investigation. but ma...

And there's a key request here. which county takes the lead in the investigation? joe jones reports. >> reporter: over two dozen countries have been involved in the search for the missing plane. any hope of unraveling the mystery and the fate of its 239 passengers and crew rests in two boxes. the flight and data recorders. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area, and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh-370. >> reporter: if they find them, the question remains who gets the black boxes and who will lead the investigation to uncover...

Again. crews will scan mile after mile of ocean on this the 37th day after flight 370 kept missing and we keep hearing words like optimism and confidence related to this search, but the pings that are thought to be from the plane's black boxes have not be detected since tuesday, that's five days leading to fears the batteries in the data recorders are becoming too weak to transmit. now, relatives of missing passengers met today with malaysian officials. one mother says she feels like the malaysian government has forgotten about all things connected to flight 370. right now the u.s. navy's ping...

Any hope of unraveling the mystery and the fate of its 239 passengers and crew is in two boxes, the flight and data recorders. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh-370. >> reporter: if they find them, the question remains who gets the black boxes and who will lead the investigation to uncover what really happened to flight 370. typically following a crash the country of origin for the airliner, in this case malaysia, is tasked with taking charge of the investigation. but malaysian author...