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Almost be like a leaf. >> how is that possible? >> well, its possible because they got to such a slow air speed. >> a stall occurs not only when 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 airplane flies is youve got high pressure underneath the wing and low pressure on top. if this is the relative wind, the steeper the angle of attack, occurs, the more likely youll get a stall....

Debris and also found bodies floating in the water, everyone became hysterical especially the mothers. one mother even blacked out. >> reporter: the airbus a 320 lost contact early sunday morning shortly after the pilot requested permission to turn and climb to a higher altitude because of bad weather. cnn obtained audio of air traffic control moments before the plane left indonesias second biggest city. >> [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: officials are hoping to find the planes black boxes which sho...

Indonesian officials over the past hour. they seem to be confident what they have found here is a debris field. from this point, theyll work back look at the currents of the ocean, the winds and work out where the fuselage of the plane is and they have just said in that news conference they have confirmed the sighting of an emergency exit door from that airbus a-320. as we said it went down more than 40 hours ago now. this is day three of the search. so we have confirmation from these officials ...

That passengers are very uncomfortable. 38 minutes into the flight the pilot requested to climb from 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet. at first air traffic controllers gave the okay but then told the pilot to wait until six nearby planes cleared the air space. four minutes later the airbus 320 disappeared. there was no mayday or pan pan, which is a lower level distress call. some experts believe thats an indication of a catastrophic event. but remember the air france crash in 2009 also happened in bad...

Welcome back. in every airline disaster the pilots come under immediate scrutiny. the captain goes by one name arionto. hes a seasoned pilot including 6100 hours with airasia on the airbus 320. joining us is president of the national safety council, the former chair of ntsb. david, obviously, theres a lot of difference between this and what we know about malaysia flight 370. one thing is similar, they both did not have a realtime tracking information that could have given constant data. still, w...

Evidence of the root cause of the accident that is when you stop adding layers. so in this case it was necessary to build the entire aircraft back. and peter can tell us more about that. how that happened was that there simply were not answers until they saw the entire impact. there was a lot of questions about whether there was a missile from the outside in or inside out. those were agsed but it took a lot of assembly work. >> painstakingly, you can see how much work it did take to put that tog...

Conference. well bring you anymore news as it comes to hand. this missing plane, an airbus a-320, part of airasias fleet. miguel marquez takes a closer look at the planes history and how it flies with other airlines around the world. >> worldwide, more than 3600 airbus 320s are flown by more than 400 airlines, charter companies and private entities. eight american carriers combined have more than 450 a320s in their fleet, amongs the biggest, jet blue with 190. delta and u.s. airways, 69 each. in...

Were following breaking news. the pentagon now preparing two dive teams and a reconnaissance aircraft to take part in the search for the airasia flight. thats according to a defense official source and bodies and wreckage from the plane have now been recovered. the search for airbus a-320 is continuing fueled by what indonesia officials say looks like a plane. andrew stevens begins our coverage in surabaya indonesia, where the flight originated. andrew give us the latest. >> reporter: he willwel...

Fight. this aircraft essentially was made in their country. not only that they have experience. they investigated air france 447, so they are not inexperienced when it comes to -- >> yeah they certainly know what they are doing when it comes to that kind of investigation. will we definitely find out what brought down the plane? >> when they get those black boxes, its going to be critical. they are located right in the back part of the a-320. so its in the tail area. and its strategically placed ...

Into a system thats not going to be used. you dont want to build an aircraft thats too strong, for instance instance. you also dont want to load up an aircraft with electronics that are going to be used only one in a million times. >> this airbus a-320, thats a workhorse, right? >> it is. its been proved to be a very reliable airplane. >> were going to talk about that coming up because how safe is the airbus a-320? thanks. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] fedex® has solutions to enable global commerc...