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Detected gets taken out of the water and looked at we dont know what took this airplane down. ice is one thing at altitude. the other thing that is associated with thunderstorms is turbulence. and turbulence can be a large player in why this aircraft went down not ice. if there is icing conditions hail can damage aircraft can shatter windows, can mess up the leading edge of the aircraft and it can also be adjusted in the engines. so that type of icing could damage the airplane. but more associat...

Total of 57 divers to investigate several large objects detected by sonar imagery. the u.s. s. fort worth is using sonar equipment to scan the ocean floor. meanwhile, indonesian authorities extend the massive operation east beyond the most probable area where crews have retrieved dozens of bodies and located large pieces of debris believed to be from the aircraft. >> the position of where they find the debris is extremely important because of the fact you can determine whether there was an infli...

Isis forces. this according to the pentagon. its happening at the elassad air force base in the anbar province. barbara starr, i take it theyre in greater danger as a result of these strikes that are going at the al assad air force base, is that right? >> reporter: wolf this is the concern. this is a sprawling huge base in western iraq but isis knows there are u.s. troops there, 320 of them along with hundreds of iraqi forces. what u.s. officials are now saying very openly is that base is coming...

These? >> reporter: what we are hearing now it is specifically at al asad air base in western iraq a very remote area where these attacks are happening. these are so-called indirect fire. rocket and mortar attacks launched by isis militants against the base. they are very impreisiscise attacks. they aim these weapons at the base. no u.s. troops injured thankfully. we dont know about any iraqi troops injured. they are very imprecise attacks. and pretty much at the moment limited to this area wher...

Pulled from the water and taken to land. severe weather breaking long enough for officials to deploy a total of 57 divers to investigate objects detected by sonar. the u.s. ship is using sonar equipment to scan the ocean floor. meanwhile, authorities expand the operation beyond the most probable area where crews have retrieved dozens of bodies and located large pieces of debris believed to be from the aircraft. >> the position of where they find the debris is extremely important because the fact...

Whats happening with those 320 mostly marines who are at the al assad air base in the al anbar province of iraq coming under fire from isis troops they were surrounded this area, how worried should their families be these american marines? >> it is true the al assad air base has received indirect fire in the last few weeks or so. its infrequent. its not multiple attacks every day. its also important to remember the side of al asad air base. its a big place. there are 320 marines there. theres al...

Troops. there is a lot of worry that eventually hopefully not, but eventually one of those troops could suffer injuries. there could be u.s. casualties there. the pentagon not saying at this point whether it has changed security measures there. the troops that are there, 320 u.s. troops they are conducting training advising assisting for iraqi forces trying to get them back in the fight, but the concern, of course is that the fight doesnt come to the doorstep of those u.s. forces. president obam...

Taking engines out and having a loss of power. so its definitely a part of the investigation to help searchers find wreckage. but then later in the investigation is when they will look at that as a contributing cost. >> and then the air bus 320 has a so-called ditching switch for water landings. what are the conditions in which that would be used. >> im not a pilot. i dont fly for commercial airlines. so i cant address that specially. they subsequently drown when the aircraft sinks. that makes s...

Inside the theo lacy jail facility in orange county, california, clarence butterfield has been busy writing. >> i have been writing poems since ive been in here. ive written 320 anyway. this is poem number 300. i dedicated it to my daughter. its called "being an angel" because she was an angel. its not what people do, its the deeds they leave undone. that gives the soul remorse at the setting of the sun. a helpful word unspoken, a letter you did not write, now is when you said later are the ghos...

Aircraft. on december 10th, 20 days before this accident the governments of europe and the united states issued one on the airbus a 320, that at certain altitudes the attitude sensors, the things that tell the pilot and the autopy wloot the nose of the plane is doing freeze up at high altitudes in bad weather such as thunderstorms. and they will cause the airplane to dive directly to the earth and the crew cant do a thing about it. that has not been mentioned by anyone but fits classically withi...