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Is hampering the search for flight 8501s flight data recorders. we know they contain valuable information. >> here are a few things you need to know about black boxes. first of all, as we said about 10,000 types they are not black, they are orange. they are located in the tail section of an airbus a-320. they store about 25 hours of information about the planes altitude air speed, engine performance, other data. then theres the cockpit voice recorder. it has two hours of interaction with air tra...

The first wreckage and bodies from the crash, about 66 miles from the planes last radar position. since then the grisly task of recovering bodies has been ongoing. the "uss sampson" lending assistance on thursday. but so far, no clear answers on what happened to bring this airbus 320 out of the sky. among the theories that the pilots disregarded the order not to climb, that for some reason that the aircraft traveling too slow to sustain flight dropped into the water like an enormous rock. the se...

Hello, everyone. im pamela brown in for ashleigh banfield. happy new year and welcome to "legal view." weather is still a big problem over the java sea at this hour but this has been the biggest day yet in the search for victims and debris from airasia flight 8501. teams from several nations, the u.s. included, recovered 21 more bodies today, bringing the total to 30 out of 162 passengers and crew. today, four have been identified and given back to their families. one was a flight attendant. ano...

Angle of attack. the plane loses lift and can plummet. >> the reason the airplane flies is because you have high pressure underneath and low pressure on top. if this is the nose of the airplane and this is the relative wind the steeper the angle of tack occurs the more likely youll get a stall. >> in the case of qz8501 already a possible critical piece of information. air traffic control data showing the ac 320 descending shortly before disappearing from radar. >> it seems an attempt is made, at...

Navy divers down to identify a piece of wreckage that wasnt happening today. it is hampering the search for bodies as you can imagine. one victim the first to be identified today, a woman. she according to airasia was identified through dna, united with her family here and taken back to her village. after a brief ceremony laid to rest, richard. >> kelly, as we look at some fuselage you reported on theyre hoping that indeed according to tony fernandez what they have seen might be part of that. wh...

One of the worlds most popular planes. cnns miguel marquez looks at the airbus 8320 from nose to tale. >> reporter: worldwide, more than 3,600 airbus 8320s are flown by more than 400 airlines, charter companies, and private entities. eight american carriers combined have more than 450 a-320s in their fleet, among the biggest, jetblue, united, delta and us airways, 69 each. in the short to medium range world, the a320 is second only to boeings 737, which has delivered nearly 8,000 of its ultra po...

A320 and a-330 is very much the same. their flight decks are the same. pilots have flown a 320 you can convert to a 330 or the other way around within a few days because servicing so familiar to him. >> we know weather was a factor in both flights. there were thunderstorms at the time and both of these flights were that in inter tropical convergence zone. i one that means something significant too because thunderstorms are somewhat unique in this zone of sorts, is that right? >> you got to be th...

Are clothed suggests some passengers and the flight attendant was still within the fuselage within they died. >> 8501 is the airbus 320 even have the pilot tubes that froze in air france flight 447? >> well, certainly they have pilot tubes. i understand its a different manufacturer and these model pilot tubes, john have not had a failure history like the ones that were on aboard air france. >> again, this is just another reason why we need to get a hold of the flight data recorders to find out e...

Hail. windshield. many time had to hire acoustic experts to tell us the meaning of every click and sound in the cockpit. a wement ofalth of information. very important. >> you are saying the debris is indicating a textbook crash. the faa issued a warning pilots about a certain part of the a-320. what does that mean? >> an air worthiness directive, regarding the pito tube. if it was something sthalt was major and -- that was major and life threating it would be more than an air worthiness directi...

Velocity of the aircraft. you try to recover from a stall if thats what occurred. but we have severe downdrafts and updrafts in a storm. this airplane could have been tossed like a raindrop out of the bottom that storm. trace: people sayies it so urgent? we have 3,000 a-320s flying around this world every day always flying into bad weather. if its snoght airplane we need to find out fast. >> those things are going into service right it doesnt looks like the aircraft may be to blame. trace: we ke...