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Every day, we receive hundreds of questions from our viewers who want a better understanding about what it is that is not being done in the search for flight 370. let's bring back our panel of experts to tackle some of these questions. our aviation analyst, mark weise, and peter goelz and law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes. let's get right to the questions. tony tweets, why this long before releasing the transcript to the public? no doubt the malaysian authority hindered success of the search. >> great question. i have no idea why they waited this long. >> they should have released it right ...

Sometime from now doesn't mean it's still not valuable. right? just means it makes it difficult to find in the interim? >> well, what they would be doing is looking for the tail section of the aircraft, which is where these boxes are kept, and hope they would still be in the tail or nearby, and they could be recovered quite a while from now. a year or two from now. and provide the data. the voice recorder, however, only records the last two hours of conversation. it's a tape loop that just tapes over itself. so that's unlikely to tell us the genesis of this accident. but the flight data record...

Or edr. >> in those kind of accidents edr data will be invaluable. >> reporter: sean dennis is a forensic engineer who reconstructs car crashes for law firms and insurance companies. >> it's hidden way up underneath the dash. >> yep. yep. yep. >> reporter: it is tied into the air bag system and records two to five seconds of pre-crash data, things like engine speed, throttle, brakes, accelerator, seat belts. >> we see here 2.3 seconds before -- before the crash this person, this driver has gone from brakes off to brakes on. >> chrysler, gm and ford give people like dennis access to information...

Ocean if they're lucky is a black box. and as we've said, they're not black, they're orange because that's the mandate from the federal government since the 1960s. so you can spot one of these easily in wreckage. in a plane wreckage. but specifically, here's the pinger on the end of it that now has about, we're told, less than two weeks of mandatory battery life in it. it may be going longer than that, but it is required to go for 30 days, and we've now used up more than half of that time already. in the black box itself, there are two components to the black box, right? there's the cockpit vo...