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news. they found wreckage of the plane's fuselage. it's lying on the bottom of the java sea. so far several bodies were pulled from the wreckage including one flight attend about. the debris field is some six miles from where the last they heard from the plane. all 162 people on board are now presumed dead. >> we are live in sewer buyeria ind -- surabaya. there are heart warming stories of families of children mothers and fathers who missed the flight and who are today thanking god, aren't they? >> reporter: robin, that's

exactly right. behind me is the crisis center i counted some 100 families eating dinner talking to counsellors. there are a bunch of notes on a bulletin board on each and every person on that plane and also 15 names of no shows, people who never showed up and their names are there, too. i look at those names and think those are the luckiest people on planet either right now they missed that flight. most of them come to terms with the fact that their loved ones have passed away in this terrible tragic accident on sunday. they want the bodies back. seven bodies have been recovered. five are currently on a ship headed to borneo island north of here. two of them are on the island and will be transported to a phish hospital.

we have some pictures that were given to us by the indonesian government waiting by divers the chief of search and rescue for the city who is very involved in this. he told us that this belief is that most of these bodies are still on the fuselage strapped to their sheets and will require drivers to go under the plane to recover most of the bodies. it is his belief and others belief here many are strapped to their seats in the fuselage t. water is not that deep. it's about 100 feet most. it's very shallow. it is very rough and making the search and rescue difficult. there are so many sad stories. it gets to you after a while. we hope we can give them support

as citizens of the world. also this man lost his sister brother, two nieces and a nephew. we talked to him about what he is going through. listen. >> when we had the information, firstly, of course we hoped our family members were safe and thought of nothing, until yesterday morning an afternoon, we still hoped we would get a miracle that our families are still alive. because my mother my sister we were very close. >> reporter: there are so many people like this gentleman in the room behind me t. wait goes on back to you, guys. >> how long will this guite on? i mean we have been told the weather is not good there is

only two bodies that they brought book to land. they're now undergoing an investigation. this is such a long and involved process. it's quite brutal really when you think these people are going through such an emotional distress right now and have to deal with officials and identification. >> reporter: yes, brutal john torturous. it's very difficult. post-casesitative come to terms with the outcome. >> that makes it slightly. it doesn't make it easy it's slightly better to get their loved ones back. it's great business in there. there is not yelling and screaming and crying going on in there. there is tear people come to terms with that, that doesn't mean it's going to be much easier right now they have a job to zochl they will stick around and do it. they are moving closer to where the bodies are today or

tomorrow. >> like i said it all demands on the weather, how soon they can get out there. it will take weeks. gary we appreciate you being with us. let's check in a little later. >> well john lennon spoke to one pilot who thought there was more. >> we don't fly into storms of any time of that magnitude not going to survive very well. so i don't think we can blame the airplane. the airplane is a smart and efficient airplane. 447 had they taken their hands off, it would have more than likely flown through the storm without a problem just because of the data we got. this one looks like the buildup was pretty sophisticate. so yeah i don't think this is

an airplane. it's coming down there is not a lot you can do it's all smooth ire. we don't do extreme turbulence like you explained in a thunderstorm. >> investigators are already learning something about what happened to flight 8501 from the debris so far the editor-in-chief and managing director at airlinesratings.com. he joins us live. he is in perth, australia. jeffrey, the whole thing is moving very quickly. are you surprised? >> look no in that area of the world, it's a very heavy traffic area both in the air and on sea. there are lots of assets in singapore to do with the oil and gas industry and also in ind nieciasm a whole lot of countries have come to the aid

of the indonesians. there is about 32 at last count in the area and, of course, you know it's very close to land online mp370, which is 2,000 kilometers off the west coast of australia, far more difficult to get to and to search for. so no i'm pleased it's happened so quickly and it appears as though we're going to have a timely closure for the loved ones. >> what do we know so far? bodies strapped into the main fuselage very few bodies on the water the december floating on top. is this giving you some kind of indication there was a catastrophic failure here? >> the number of bodies is down i believe is 74 men, three

ladies one uniform, in the cases of the fuselage and the rest of the passengers i expect to be strapped in. and it still doesn't tell us a lot about whether the plane broke up in flight. when i say broke up a horizontal stabilizeer or a vertical stabilizeer coming away in the flight or even the wings, highly unlikely. but i think most of the damage would have been done when it impacted the water and as we found with air france 447, the airplane fractured in a number of places when it hit the water in 2009 and then of course we don't know whether it's right way up or upsidedown but that may not necessarily mean anything at all if the plane was out of control, which we think

it was from this high altitude upset. it may have hit the water upsidedown right way up. >> that wouldn't really tell us a lot. >> the fact that there is a blink of the plane in the water, is that encouraging? because, oofbl obviously, they want to get to the tail section, because that's where the flight data recorder is. >> if indeed we had a situation like mh 317 and spread out over 350 piles, that would make it very difficult if there was a midair explosion a bomb or something leak that. the fact that it's all intact will certainly help investigators. it will help rescuers to bring this to a timely conclusion. because it's very important we get to those black boxes, we feed to know what caused this disaster because there are 6,000

or so 320s flying around the world. it's the back bone of many many fair airline fleets. each one of those 6,000 airplanes does about six sets a day. it's a real workhorse. we need to understand how the catastrophe happened. >> and those answers will be coming not as quick as we would like them. thank you. well the search is hang in water as deep as a ten-story building. it's dangerous, difficult work. >> randi kaye explains what it takes to get wreckage from the plane up to the ocean floor. >> reporter: this is what it looks like trying to recover an airplane in the ocean. are you watching a u.s. navy salvage team gather pieces of twa flight 800 which went down off new york in 1996. here divers are maneuvering

among wreckage. >> they have the capability they've done this before. >> reporter: retired navy captain chip mccord has been involved in at least 50 ocean salvage operations including twa 800 and swiss air flight 111 which crashed in 1998 off the coast of nova scotia. under water vehicles are equipped with lights and cameras. they're also outfitted with with sonar to scout for debris. they are zeered by two operators on board a ship above who use instant feedback from the salvage cameras to direct the robotic arms. >> they can hover, they can move left right, forward and aft and go to where they need very carefully however over a piece and pick it up if they need to. >> reporter: remember air france flight 447 which crashed in the atlantic ocean in 2009. two years later an unmanned

under water vehicle found the debris field noor flight 13,000 feet beneath the surface. the engines were pulled from the ocean floor. >> if it's small like a black basket can you put a basket in the rov. the arms can pick it up. >> reporter: but the remote under water vehicles can only carry about 4,000 pounds so anything heavier like a large piece of a fuselage has to be attached to a cable and pulled to the surface by a crane on the ship. randi kaye cnn, new york. still ahead on cnn, we will champion the theorys on what may have caused the fleet of airasia flight 8501. plus a look at some of the passengers on board and how their families are coping with the tragedy. just into our newsroom witnesses say at least 15 people were killed in a baca haram

raid. they tell us baca haram, you may recall more than 200 school girls were abducted by boka haram in april. >> that sparked gloeblg outrage. we will bring you more information as it comes in. back if a moment. .

being brought back to shore. officials believe that is an

oxygen tank there, some luggage as well. >> winds are complicated efforts to recover more debris. we spoke about the importance about recovering the famous black box. >> the cockpit voice recorder will tell you exactly what the pilots were saying to each other as they negotiated whatever trouble they found in the cockpit and the flight data recorder will have ought parameters of the engine the avionics. the input. it will tell you whether the left hand or the right-hand seat made the input and what you do is you put them in a time line to simplify you got the voice the data you got the weather and you can literally recreate that flight moment by moment. those pieces the data phone box recorder spell the data recorder that is going to tell us what happened no doubt.

>> even though the plane's flight recorders have not yet been recovered, there are a lot of theories out there. cnn spoke with an aviation expert about what might have gone wrong. >> reporter: when an airplane flips or stalls it could be catastrophic. >> once are you in unrecoverable stall, what happens? >> there are various types of stalls. for the most part you are going to see more or less a flat situation. because the pilots will try to control it. it will just it will almost be like a leaf. >> how is that possible? >> well it's possible because they got to is up a slow air speed. >> reporter: a stall occurs when not only the air speed slows but the wings are at such an extreme angle or as pilots call it the angle of attack the plane loses lift and can plummet. >> the reason the plane flies, you have high pressure on the

wings and less on the top. this is the relative wind the steep of the angle of attack occurs the more likely you will get a stall. >> reporter: in the case of 8501 already a possible critical information, air traffic control data showing the a 320 ascending shortly before radar. >> it's disturbing to me an attempt was paid at least so far, we haven't verified it with data that he was avoiding weatherly going up. that's not something you'd rather like to do you like to go left to right. >> reporter: air france in 2009 was flying from rio to paris in a powerful storm. ice formed on the plane's exterior. the tubes deliver quickal information to the computers. pilots had confusing signals as to what was happening with the plane. >> they were getting horns, readouts on their displays

they're trying to figure out what's happened with the plane. >> reporter: the 447 pilot thinking it was losing speed, pushed it into a climb, pushing it into a catastrophic stall. the flight voice recorder captured the confusion in the cockpit with a stalled warning blareing the plane's captain says, juan out you are pulling up. one of his co-pilots responds am i pulling up? with flight 8501 described equatorial heat. ice could easily form. the pilots of 8501 getting similarly bad information about what was actually happening to the plane. >> you are talking super cooled water droplets at this altitude. what would have happened the concentration was such that it blocked the tubes and the heating system failed to keep up with it. >> reporter: all questions for investigators as the search for victims continues, the search for answers just as intense.

miguel marquez, cnn, new york. >> they now found where the plane is. they don't know what brought the plane down. as we have been reporting, weather may have played a very big factor. >> now the weather is impacting search and recovery operations. we will check in for more on that next. we needed 30 new hires for our call center. i'm spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my . then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. makes my job a lot easier. [ female announcer ] over 100,000 businesses have already used zip recruiter and now you can use zip recruiter for free at a special site for tv viewers; go to ziprecruiter.com/offer5.

>> with the flights in asia in thailand there is a lot of rain. >> that is something we have to look at very carefully because the air is changing. >> he spoke about the weather in the region when flight 8501 went down t. plane's wreckage has been found by the airport to prepare all facilities and hospital chief pilots have been making all the arrangements. they have been very active with the families. they have arranged counsellors and spiritual leaders to be on hand for the families and the passengers on board that flight. >> absolutely. also focus for the family no doubt the search and recovery of the bodies of their loved one itself. it's a combination of rain wind and thunderstorms are expected over the next 24 hours, which could really severely hamper all these operations. let's go to the international weather center for more details. hi there. >> yeah the storms we have ahead

the next couple days resemble the severity of sunday morning, potentially why we are in this area to speak of. i want to show you the wind speeds ahead of us a main factor at this point. let's take you through this afternoon, pause it notice the red indicating the deepest of the reds here that, would equate to about 70 kilometers roughly 40 to 55-mile-per-hour wind gusts the strongest winds across the ja za sea will be based on the storm field based on tomorrow afternoon. this time tomorrow of course you are looking at rough seas powerful winds still in the forecast until friday afternoon before things quiet down across the debris feel. i want to show what you this equates to on an empirical field, you get through the boford scale of 8 of one to 12. it puts it around the 70 kph range. the description for the wave height is 18-to-25 feet.

this really becomes a dangerous situation for anyone to be out there when it comes to search efforts taking place. therefore the wend speeds, a rough 24 hours ahead of us here. rainfall will be tremendous over the next couple of days possibly 100 millimeters over the debris field. this is normal. this is about three-and-a-half to four inches in their forecast. this is the satellite perspective. areas on infrared satellite. we don't have access to radar this part of the world to say the least. these typically are 45 feet high. the red showing you the cold down across this region in the debris field, notice moderate development taking place, probably 25,000 feet an average thunderstorm. certainly, wet weather in place, low clouds in place as we spoke. the cloud sets here in the next couple hours, the big question is how do the next couple days shape up?

here is late tomorrow morning, wet weather again, there is related to the wind speeds as that storm, that system rolls through, look at friday morning, this is about an hour after sunrise on friday morning, we certainly would imagine operations will be impacted by wet weather of that nature rolling right through that region once again saturday morning, the theme continues across this area. so something about the depth across the java sea. the average depth is around 40 meters 130 feet. it drops down to 80 or so feet. 100 feet that most depth will find across the debris field area. but i want to show you what the currents are doing at the ocean here. because they're moving at roughly 1-mile-per-hour. the average person walks roughly at 3 miles per hour. it's moving at a pace of one-third of what you would walk on a walk perhaps. the debris will be on the move. when you factor in the winds at the surface, as strong as they, are you know this will be problematic when it comes to

displacing a lot of the debris across the region. this is what the shore lines look across portions of borneo a lot of marshy landscape. this is what we have ahead of us with the wild weather, which is, again, what is expected this time of year across the area of the world, guys. >> and, of course the weather, not just causing problems for the recovery and the retrieval of the debris and the bodies but it's also the impact it will have on the debris on the bottom of the ocean, the sea, rather. >> the evidence section. >> they will scatter the debris around, so there is huge issues here they have to deal with. do they go out? i think the risks, hoy do they deal with this. thank you. we will talk with you again soon. much more on the crash of flight 8501 when we come back after a short break. narrator: these are the tennis shoes skater kid: whoa narrator: that got torture tested by teen . from the surprised designers. who came to the rescue with a brilliant fix male designer: i love it

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right now to our flight in indonesia, so far two bodies were flown in by helicopter. now it appears the remaining five of the seven which have been recovered in the past 24 hours or so are now heading back to begin the long process of identification and then to return them to their families. we are joined on the line gary walk us through the process of how all of this is now playing out. >> reporter: okay right now, i have been brought to an indonesian airbase in surabaya where army air force, navy personnel, about 100 of them are preparing to honor the first

victims brought back to surabaya from this horrible plane crash. right now they are standing in silence, waiting for the military jet to land at this airbase. they will be saluting the victims. the victims will be put on a van for a drive about an hour away from here for a police hospital. that's where family members will be asked to meet the bodies and provide identification. but this will be the first arrival back in surabaya where they started their mission of victims of this airasia flight. right now, 100-to-110 indonesian troops are standing by. >> right now they have the two bodies which have been brought back to land of the seven which have been recovered so far? >> reporter: it is believed it's two bodies. i talked to the man in charge here. he can't vouch that it might not be more than two bodies. i believe. so it is the first two we know

brought to borneo island. at least those two will be transported here back to surabaya to the airbase. >> am i to assume they plan to do the ceremony for all the crew if they manage to find all 162? ? >> reporter: that is the plan now, that i have the same protocol for each of the victims believe to have died in this terrible crash hand the is a plan. they have apparently trained for this even before this plane crashed, that is what the roles are of these soldiers and airmen and navy men and women who are here right now. >> that is a transfer of all. >> gary we'll let you go. hopefully, we will talk to you again soon. we appreciate the update. telling us there is now a ceremony out of the way t. military for the first of the two bodies which have made it back to land from that crash site it seems like it's very ceremonial very respectful as they honor the victims of this

tragedy. >> for people with loved ones on airasia flight 8501. we saw some officials have picked up an area for family members to get support and provide information. >> that may help identify victims. of course all are presumed dead. now, the mysterious circumstances surrounding airasia flight 8501 at first gave loved ones on board some reason to hope that somehow they'd be found alive. now the debris and bodies have been found, that hope has given way to unbearable grief. here's jay taper. >> reporter: for the families praying and waiting for good news each piece of debris discovered represents the destruction of their last hopes. >> the only flight benefit is that for the people in there, there is some closure. this is a scar with me the rest of my life. >> reporter: now as victims'

belongings are collected from the sea the world is gaining a clearer picture of who we've lost. 162 souls, including 18 children. one of the first pilots to spot debris told the indonesian newspaper "compass" he saw vimths floating in the water still holding hands. it's perhaps a tale but it is symbolic of the tragedy. in this south korean church the congregation is weeping for one of their missionaries. park sung ban as well as for his wife and their 11-month-old daughter gone along with them a fiancee whose chance to become a husband will never come. >> they said that his plane was missing. >> reporter: his bride to be explained that he perished along with his family on their last trip together. >> he was supposed to be there last vacation before us got

married. >> reporter: britain's only citizen aboard was traveling with his two-year-old daughter zoe when the plane went down. according to newspaper "the telegraph," the father boarded this flight because there were not enough seats to fly with his wife and son on another. the wife of the pilot is mourning as well. >> the children still need a father. i still need guidance from a husband. he's a good husband in my eyes he's a faithful husband. >> reporter: the captain was an experienced indonesian air force veteran whose daughter posted this on social media pleading for his return. a return that tragically will never happen. >> the director general of the association of asia pacific air, he joins us now on the line from suri england, just outside london. give us some understanding of

regulations, particular when flying into bad weather like this. the u.s. says go around it. that's not the same globally is it? >> reporter: well if you can try to avoid large thunderstorms aulgss do subject to air traffic control, but obviously if bad weather it's quite normal for aircraft to fly in bad weather and they're certified to fly in bad weather and bad weather alone would not only bring down a modern jet. >> so with the information and it's quite patchy some of it is conflicting at times, how do you and your colleagues assess what might have happened in the skies on sunday? >> reporter: well we try to avoid speculation that these times, it's a time to gather evidence and focus on the search and rescue efforts of the body and obviously parts of the aircraft that may be a part of the aircraft to try to locate

and retrieve the black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. investigators rely on that data to piece together exactly what happened. until that evidence is available, it's pretty pointless to speculate. having said that and bad weather alone will not only bring down a modern jet and i think the investigation team will be looking closely at possible equipment malfunction and/or the crew action but it's as we say, it's difficult to do. we have the evidence. one shouldn't speculate. >> absolutely t. safety record of airasia has been flawless. however, a lot of airlines in the area some have been black listed particularly in flying over the iu for example, what is the state of aviation and safety in the asia-pacific region? >> reporter: well, flying is extremely safe and the safest

form of travel and that's true world wide. and asian airlines operate in accordance with the same international standards. air asia as you say, has an excellent safety record. they have flown millions of safe flights over the last ten years. this is obviously, a catastrophe. we need to find out exactly what happened. >> but just talking about an industry at large, you are very involved in this. there has been massive growth in terms of the number of people traveling the growth of airlines particularly on domestic routes. has this put pressure on the industry in that region and does that impact on safety? >> well it's true that flying is extremely popular. we are talking about more than 3 billion people flying around the world every year. and that's 9 million passengers a day. some of the fastest growing markets are if asia that includes indonesia, which is a

large market because the country is far flung islands, thousands of islands, and air transport is an essential part of linking that internationally to other points around the region. keeping up with that management capability and of course the number of pilots trying to keep up with the news as it develops. in terms of the safety the fact is the industry safety record has been extraordinarily good and has been getting better if we look back just sen years the loss rate is one in ample flights. five years ago, they've outlined in 2 million flights, currently world wide it's running one to three to 4 million flights. agents that an extraordinary achievement. having said that every accident

is a kas that catastrophe. safety is about managing millions of safe flights rather than accidents. accidents are one of the few ways we do learn to fix mistakes made in the past and assure those similar events don't happen in the future. >> andrew is the director general of the association of asia-pacific airlines. and an update now on what indonesian officials have been telling us. it seems one official, a senior official is backing away from earlier comments that sonar had, in fact detected the fuselage on the airasia flight. he actually says he still believes sonar located debris on the bottom of the ja za sea. only he is not quite as certain as he was. we are also hearing from the national search and rescue who told us the news agency the plane has not yet been salvaged. he should add, though

indonesian officials have been very cautious in saying anything definitive until it is absolutely 100% confirmed. so that's where we are right now. much more when we come back.

welcome back. we continue to follow the breaking news and crash of

airasia flight 8501 officials are being cautious as to whether sonar has found the plane wreckage. one official says sonar has, in fact found parts of the plane at the bottom of the sea. but the national search and rescue chief isn't so sure. he says the plane has not been found yet but officials there have in fact been very cautious up until this point. >> search crews have recovered seven bodies so far, including that of a flight attendant. cnn analyst mary schiavo spoke with dom lemon about what changes may come from the tragedy. >> caller: it leads us to causes it also leads us perhaps, to cures. one of the things the inspector general rems where we need additional laws and regulations. i think we need to look at the u.s. has a rule about not driving into thunderstorms, saying you know it's nautical miles away from thunderstorms maybe there needs to be

international guidelines. so we need to use this and every tragedy as a way to move aviation safety forward and i think this will. >> and families of the passengers on board that flight were briefed about the discovery in surabaya. the plane took off on sunday. here are the images as they walked into that briefing. they had been at a prayer service just before. meanwhile, passengers on another airasia flight had a scare, when their plane ran off the runway. this time it was a plane flown by the regional partner airasia zest. they report it was traveling from manila when it skied and overshot the runway in the central philipines. the emergency sights were deployed. no one was hurt. it's important to note however the area was being slammed by a

tropical storm at the time flash flooding and landslides have killed more than 30 people in that region. another big story here torts in western canada say a man killed eight people. police say it was the worst mass murder there in 60 years. nine bodies were found at three separate crime scenes. one woman was found, several more victims, including two children were found at a second location overnight a. man was later found dead at a restaurant. police say the man's family members feared he was suicidal. and in scotland, a woman who had been in west africa recently has tested negative for ebola while a patient in england is awaiting test results. meanwhile, scottish nurse is in isolation fighting the deadly virus. she returned to scotland sunday from sierra leone where she worked in an ebola treatment

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nearly 300 girls were abducted. the men here have come together each bringing what they could, trying hoping they will be able protect their families. >> what are we asking? >> reporter: we are here on the ground we are speaking to the people who are personally affected by this. they did not see any -- this is the mango tree where the two bodies were found hanging. the teenagers were allegedly gang raped by three brothers. there is some pushing back. . go back go back shouts this man who said a tank was about to open fire. everybody ran. i saw a boy cut up right there, over there, a pan, he looked dead. i saw a boy, he looked dead too. supernova shows me where a naked

woman smashed through the roof into her kitchen. >> within seconds a gunshot. and it begins. itative all gone forward trying to case down what seems to be a poacher who at least most definitely is armed. >> we're on a hilltop north of syrian border. you should be able make out some figures. we believe they are isis fighters. >> do you personally believe if beheadings an executions like this? >> i hope god gives me such a chance. >> ebola can lead to death, just one drop of infected fluids. >> you can see the center. it's not extraordinarily equipped. this is it. this is the only place people have. >> this is a public place. i will ask you to report. he's going to shoot. >> beyond the mosul dam, the fighting has been going on for more than two weeks.

>> this is where the sit-in has grown, calling for more democracy in hong kong. >> this is the first time the papal plane has been allowed to enter chinese airspace. >> an incredible year. it was ending on a very sad note because the news right now, the families of 155 people still at the bottom of the java sea. they are going through a very difficult process of having to identify those bodies. it is believed many are still strapped into the fuselage of that plane. as we have seen already, they are slowly being brought back to land. we reported a few moments ago, there is this very dignified

service which the indonesians are now providing for people on board that flight. two people brought back so far. about 1 humidity or so military men and women leaning up as well to pay their respects. so this year is ending on a sad note for so many people in indonesia and around the world because of everything that's happened. >> absolutely. the big question of course also for the families of mh-370 still unarmed with questions. it's been particularly traumatic for them to relive this third major crash this year. >> and the third major crash from a malaysian-based airline company. many people now wondering what is happening in that part of the world. is it safe to travel there? do they have safe safety standard as everywhere else around the world. of course those families right now they want to get their loved one itself back. >> and say good-bye. >> exactly. that's what we will do right now. >> thanks so much for watching.

>> stay with us. "early start" is coming up next. see you right back here next year.

♪ >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. breaking news this morning the wreckage of airasia flight 8501 believed to be under under water. sonar technology possibly spotting this plane on the ocean floor as more bodies of those on board are now recovered. but now the mystery of why the jetliner fell from the sky remains as the efforts to recover the black boxes gets tougher. the big story this morning. good morning, welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. it's wednesday, december 31st new year's eve. it's 4:00 a.m. in the east. we welcome all of our viewers here in th