let's bring in our safety analyst david sousie. everybo soucy. you've heard that this has happened before. what's your analysis? could it happen again? could it happen here in the united states? >> well, yeah, actually it could and it has. if you think back to just chicago a few short months ago when there was a fire down in the lower section of the control center, this is the concern, is that if there is a single point of failure and it's supposed to be designed not to do that, if there's a single point of failure because everything is integrated, that single point of failure has impacts that are far-reaching, as you mentioned before. it's going to reach far and wide and could be months before this gets back to normal. >> and the investigation, i assume, only just beginning. they say it wasn't a power outage, although that was the initial suspicion. what other problems could generate this kind of air traffic problem crisis, let's call it? >> well, the part of the software that failed, as i understand it, is the scheduling part of the software. w

i want to bring in cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes safety analyst david sousi, and aviation analystt to talk to you about the radar of the aircraft and where the debris was found, that the pilot was attempting a sea landing. why do you say that? >> if you calculate the drift angle or the glide path of the aircraft after engines have quit on it it's about 17 to one. if you calculate that out to the 120 miles, it just about comes out to 32,000 feet. so that indicates that glide path was long. it does not look to me as though it was a sudden stall as we had originally thought because it was misreported that the impact point was about six miles from where the radar picked it up last. there are others that substantiate that or back that theory up. >> there was no distress call. so far the bodies that have been found we're not seeing those passengers wear life vests. aside from making the distress call wouldn't you expect the pilot to tell passengers to prepare for an emergency landing? >> no not at all actually because as it's going down if the earnings were still running and things were

so that is all attached to some seats just inside the exit door. >> david sousy, richard quest, thank you very much and dan duke. a-320 pilot. great to have you on. >>> "outfront" next the search for flightthe flight and we'll have an update from the fleet. >>> and another bad day in the philippines and another problem with the same plane, with one of the heavily marketed planes in the world. >>> and welcome back. we're continuing to follow breaking news of the extensive search underway for airasia flight 8501. the search is under way to find more debris and bodies. it is an international effort consisting of divers shift and aircraft and including a u.s. destroyer. here is what we know. wreckage from the plane was spotted between 62 and 124 miles from the last known location in the air on sunday morning. this information remains fluid as we learn more about exactly what happened in the air. search teams are focusing on a debris field in the cara matta strait located in the java sea off the coast of indonesia. the water there to average between 80-100 feet. and it is however monsoon s