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Is the pilot given the ability to make the decision to stay safe? >> thats your primary responsibility. you are there to keep it safe. everything else is secondary. you are doing everything within your judgment and your skill set to protect the people keep the air may not safe and get safely to your destination or go someplace else if you have to. there are a lot of tool. you investigated losses of planes like this. great to have you on. coming up the air bus a-320. a plane that millions of amer...

And programs at a cost. whether the training was not right for the staff. we dont know the answers to that question but it will be raised. >> it is a big question if safety has been stranld with this expansion. a great question to ask. i want to bring in now our cnn aviation correspondent richard quest. so certainly airasia is not going away. this has been a success story until now. but you have revenue down as competition went up. now with this happening, what does the future of airasia look li...

Pulled from the wreckage. the answer to the primary question investigators are trying to figure out what brought down this plane. >> for the first time we hear voices from the cockpit of airasia flight 8501 as it takes off from indonesia, bound for singapore sunday morning. the airline confirms debris floating in the java sea is wreckage from the air bus a-320. >> the part that we found corresponds with the serial number of the lost plane. >> military aircraft spotted what looked like a shadow o...

And expected to arrive within the next few hours. airasia flight 8501 flying from indonesia to singapore yesterday when it hit bad weather and suddenly dropped off of the radar, seemingly to disappear. there were 162 people onboard including 16 children and one infant. trace gallagher has a closer look at the planes final moments as it hit bad weather. >> megyn, its very common for pilots to try to go around bad weather, but trying to go over bad weather is an indication that passengers are very...

Degeneresly no more than 150 feet long. tonight well tell what you we know about it. and examine the questions investigators are trying to answer. one, how dangerous was the weather the flight flew into? can the a-320, a plane that millions of americans fly every year safely navigate such storms? and crucially now, how hard it will be to find this plane so we can learn what brought it down? while this still officially remains a search and rescue operation, indonesias vice president admitted that...

High altitudes, the very first thing youre going to do is lower the nose and apply more power. and thats how you would normally recover from that. if theyre in a climb, probably go pretty much like full power anyway. the only thing left to do is to lower the nose. to gain speed. were probably thinking here of the air france accident where the -- that was over the atlantic when the aircraft impacted the sea. that was because the first officer was holding the nose of the aircraft up because he was...

Meanwhile, air bus has single two experts to jakarta, indonesia, to be continue with the investigation. the a-320 is a time of aircraft many of us around the united states and the world have flown frequently. according to air bus, that group of aircraft takes off and lands every two and a half seconds of every day. >> reporter: world wide more than 3,600 air bus a-320s are flown. eight american carriers combined have more than 450 a-320s in their fleet. among the biggest, jet blue with 130. unit...

Others burst into tears. 155 passengers and seven crew members were on that flight. >> translator: when they explained that not only did they find debris but also found bodies floating in the water, everyone became hysterical especially the mothers. one mother even blacked out. >> reporter: the airbus 320 that took off from surabaya lost contact with air traffic control early sunday morning after the pilot requested permission to turn and climb to a higher altitude because of bad weather. cnn ob...

Control. airbus says every 2.5 seconds a plane from one of its 320 family is taking off or landing somewhere in the world. the missing plane, designated qz8501, was delivered to airasia in october 2008. since then the airline says it has taken off some 13,600 times, logging approximately 23,000 hours in the air. airasia 8501 was carrying more than 18,000 pounds of fuel when it departed enough for about 3 1/2 hours of flight. shortly before disappearing the pilot asked air traffic control if he c...

Piece together just what may have brought down this plane. lets bring in cnn aviation cropped rene marsh. what are people saying about what they found and how does it reshape the next steps in the search? >> well jake no doubt today was a turning point. they want to answer the primary question what brought down this plane? >> reporter: for the first time we hear voices from the cockpit of flight 8501 as it takes off from indonesia bound for singapore sunday morning. debris and wreckage has been ...