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On the black boxes. >> season operators found the needle before they found the hey stack. it's quite unprecedented. >> reporter: once you know where to look, how do you get down there, some 14,000 feet below the indian ocean? >> there's one of two ways you do it. you either do it with a remote vehicle that is not tether ed t a ship on the top or you do it with a tethered remote vehicle. >> reporter: former managing director of the national transportation safety board says similar types of vehicles went almost 13,000 feet deep during the search for the cockpit voice and data recorders from the ...

There's no way of tampering with that. the only way you can do anything is to pull a circuit breaker. that's not accessible to us in the cockpit in the 777. there's no way you can possibly erase data, move data. it's not something we as pilots have the capability of doing. >> so i'll ask the big question. from your observations these many days, what do you think happened? >> that's the $64 million question. i've been going over this in my head. i've taken every aspect from a terrorist event to a passenger going berserk getting into the cockpit and the crew itself. nothing makes sense to me fro...

Over the last 35 days. nic robertson is in the capital, kuala lumpur. malaysian officials came out and said once those black boxes are found, they will be turned over to the malaysian government. true? >> reporter: yes, it is true. what they're saying is the malaysian authorities will lead the investigation. we've heard this today from the head of the chief of police. we've heard it from the acting transport minister as well. this is under international conventions that this would be the case. but what the police chief did go on to say is that malaysian lacks the experts and expertise to prope...

Disappear. is there any way to obscure the information recorded on those black boxes? >> other than the fact that the cockpit voice recorder only goes back two hours and the plane flew much longer and we'll only know what happened the last two, no way at all from the flight deck or inside the airplane that i'm aware of or anyone in the business has ever said you can modify what's on that flight data recorder. there are thousands of bits of information that goes back more than 30 days -- goes back at least 30 days. we're going to have a lot of info once we pull those things out, positions of fl...