The NTSB said a preliminary report, to be released within a month, will contain "factual information" gathered in the investigation.

Some have suggested that it stems from Hussenot's device, because it used film and "ran continuously in a light-tight box, hence the name 'black box,'" according to Airbus, which noted that orange was the box's chosen color from the beginning to make it easy to find.

NTSB officials say they found the cockpit recorder from the plane that crashed in Philadelphia deep inside a crater left after the collision. CBS News Philadelphia's Ross DiMattei reports.