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Pilots were there are five microphones in the cockpit. one in each of the headsets and then two area mikes and another area mike and they will on different channels and why that's important if i may is because you not only want to hear what we're saying to each other, but you also want to hear any external noises so those microphones will pick up the flaps going down wheels being retracted and difference in engine noises if an alarm has gone off and when you read a report it says sound of autopilot disengaging. that particular noise. a lot of information. >> a lot of information. of course cru...

>> well we know that at least a fairly significant chunk of the fuselage is under the water, and the only good news in this story so far is that you look here, the fuselage and the wreckage is only at about an 82 to 105 feet of water. that's important because that allows elite military dive teams to actually go down -- we have important things like the bodies. that's first and faux most. then you have the black boxes. you talk about the cockpit voice recorder. that can tell you things like did the stall alarm go off? what was the ambient sound like engine noises, and then there's the cockpit -...

the foundation and literally right next door is a home where there is almost no damage at all. this home lost a little siding and a broken window, beyond that, it's not really bad. that's what i always find very challenging in covering tornadoes. so much loss and then some people who are able to get out of the area with just their lives. today, of course, a number of people who are injured. 100 injuries or so reported. many of them came right from this area and no surprise because look at the damage here. people had to hold themselves out of the rubble, in many cases, or wait for res...

>> the big question remains what exactly caused this crash. trace gallagher is here with more. what are we learning? >> we have these radar reports that show the plane was at 32,000 feet then went up to 36,000 feet then suddenly plunged. it could be evidence of a stall, one of the few things is they want to recover the bodies for the families' sake but they want to do autopsies because autopsies on the victims can tell if they died on impact, before impact or after impact. that could help in the investigation. we all know the cockpit voice recorder is key because if there was a stall in this c...