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Vicinity. we dont know what happened to these guys that didnt happen to everybody else. >> lets center on the recovery efforts. 30 bodies have been recovered so far. we know that sonar has picked up pieces on the ocean floor. is it your belief that that could be the fuselage and thats where the bulk of the passengers and crew would likely be found? >> well, from the evidence that we have, i mean the indication is that this major piece was i believe almost 60 feet long. and the a-320, 123 feet i ...

Me to death. he was all in my face. then he grabbed his radio and he said he was going to bust me in my head with it. ellington ended her letter asking her aunt to call the prison and express concern for her safety. when ellingtons aunt called the prison, she says an official told her he would make sure her niece was looked after. less than 24 hours later, ellington was dead. a private autopsy paid for by her family revealed blunt force trauma in her abdomen consistent with being kicked or punch...

Diver who tells us he knows exactly what that process is like. the number of crews from around the world helping to search for airasia flight 8501 continues to grow. and if anyone knows the job that lies ahead, especially for the dozens of divers involved its gino. the 51-year-old is an experienced diver who said hes helped after recent catastrophes including the japan tsunami and the earthquake. part of airbus 320 have been recovered so have dozens of bodies but waves as high as 13 feet have ha...

Area with 12 divers. >> those sonar images are not very clear at all. i mean its very hard to tell. do you think it is jumping to conclusions to say these are most likely part of this aircraft, jeff? >> i have to say yes. that is my reaction. as we were talking about before the break, if a wing came off this plane everything should be pretty closely together. and i didnt see anything that looked like a fuselage a tube cylindrical kind of thing. i didnt see anything that looked like landing gear ...

To be much better. smaller wave better conditions and hopefully better visibility and they hope to take a closer look at the objects on the sea floor. they are relatively close together. the largest is 60 feet in length. just for context the length of an air bus a 320, approximately 120 feet. the wingspan also. >> to epius understandhelp us understand the issue and the skprepsdiscrepancies about the route. help us understand why there are certain days designated to this flight plan and what poss...

Government can issue regarding the safety of 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 is 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 b...

The uss sampson part of the recovery team has recovered a dozen bodies and the uss fort worth with dive teams set to sail from singapore on friday although indonesia authorities have not asked them to join the search. david malco is out "outfront" in indonesia. >> reporter: for the first time recovery of actual parts of airasia flight 8501 brought ashore in indonesia. more pieces resembling windows from the airbus a-320 but the fuselage is believed to be at the bottom of the java sea. the search...

I know you know some of the details about that. they were reporting engine problems. this plane came down ten miles before the airport where it was trying to do an emergency landing. given the fact you are formerly an ntsb investigators, they were reporting some engine problems. what could have brought this plane down? >> well engine problems in heavy weather is a big problem. ive flown in that type of aircraft incidentally and any kind of heavy weather particularly and im not saying they did, b...

Week. >> right. where they thought they had found it with sonar and the company said not yet, exactly. >> until we get eyes on it be it a camera or human eyes. i dont want to jump the gun on it. an object that size could be a wing a portion of the fuselage. >> that makes sense for an a-320? >> it does. it does. it makes absolute sense. it might be, you know a larger portion of it, you know the fact that we initially recovered two or three victims right off the bat that seemed to be in proximity ...

In it. we get a big window of opportunity sunday into monday. >> well look forward to that. chad myers, thanks so much. >> the search area for the wreckage from flight 8501 narrowed to roughly 2,000 square miles, taking part in the search five planes eight helicopters and 30 ships, including the "uss sampson." 30 bodies have now been recovered, four of them positively identified and as search crews struggle with the brutal weather the question of how the plane went down remains as much a mystery...