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It also gives them new incentive to go looking for other parts and other pieces that may be in the reunion island area or other areas so they can help narrow down and maybe perhaps aid the search for additional wreckage and those all important black boxes. >> that's an important point. they can keep on looking around there. keep on with the undersea search in the general search area they have suspected now for more than a year. mary, it took a long time for them to reach this conclusion, to get the official confirmation. a lot of people thought it would come much more quickly given it was a fa...

For the french bea to be reticent and take their time and to be -- frankly, when the rest of the world, especially boeing saying it's the flaperon, it has to be from mh-370 because no other 777s are missing, under ntsb standards, under our investigation standards, which is a civil investigation, that would be enough for us to conclude this is most likely 370 but the french bea, and i've worked three previous case, the concorde crash, the west caribbean 708 and air transport and i worked on some matters and the bea took a long time and they will repeat again and again that they do a criminal in...

Plane's nose is up or down what is the exact position of your plane with respect to the horizon. are you pitched up? or are you pitched down. and this is a tube on the port of the plane. on the side of the plane, and it reads this by having air flow into the plane. there were some problems with others, air france 447 had some indication there is might have been these tube problems. and one is called a pedo tube and the other one is a port that takes in information. and the airline did come out with a statement saying they had made those changes to this plane and other planes in their fleet. th...

That can explain why this plane just lost so much altitude from 38,000 feet to 6,000 feet in only eight minutes and ended up crashing on that mountain on tuesday. well the point is the debris of so many and so small is making it difficult for investigators and that is why the two black boxes are essential to find out what happened on tuesday. >> and so we'll see if they can recover the second black box. claudio, thank you. and we'll see about recovery of one of the black boxes and tom costello joins me from washington. and so they have the flight date recorder still missing. so having just one...

Black boxes very quickly. they're good at it. so can the french bea, the british can do it the australians can do it. there are many countries that have that capability. the most important thing right now is finding it. you know no beacons, no elt's going off right now apparently. no way to do it except the long search with eyes and with, you know radar coordinates, et cetera. >> this may sound like a basic question but we know it's a yurp even aircraft so are the black boxes the same? is it all essentially the same? does internationally we all have the similar kind of device? >> they're all p...