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Carefully. they can be very effective using handheld locators a diver uses. theyll be able to map this site similar to the way dave had mentioned. not with visual but with multisounder. so the entire site is mapped out. we dont know yet whether were talking about small concentrated debris field or one thats more spread out. but if its small and concentrated it may only be 200 meters by 400 meters. a multib echo sounder can map that and centimeter type resolution before anybody touches anything a...

Indonesian officials now saying that sonar has detected objects believed to be from airasia 8501 on the bottom of the java sea. they dont know if the airbus is in one piece or broken up. they say seven bodies were recovered overnight. the first two of those bodies just arrived in surabaya for identification. dozens of planes are combing the area for what is now a grim search and recovery operation. investigators hope they are a step closer to finding the data recorders. the so-called black boxes...

Seven bodies. the first two arrived in simple wooden caskets with number 001 and 002. the head of the search operation says one of the seven bodies was that of a flight attendant while local media reports the other was a teenage boy. as for search of the wreckage its been slowed by the monsoonal weather conditions there. and theres a question of whether plane wreckage has been spotted under the water. the ceo of air asia says thats not been confirmed. as crews search for victims, investigators a...

Presumed to have lost their lives, i want to go to where andrew stephens have been talking to family members. the next phase of the search. what happens now, what do we know about it? >> reporter: its still very much in most regards a search. the primary fuselage the shadow that the indonesian air force saw yesterday. the shadow that looked like a plane which suggests the plane is on the bottom of the sea. they havent been able to relocate that. conditions at the site are not good. theres heavy ...

World. we begin with word that season noor has detected objects believed to be areas of flight 8501 on the bottom of the java sea. its still not known if the airbus is in the sea or underwater. first of the two bodies are being transported to say are bayh for possible identification. right now, dozens of ships and planes are combing the area in what is now a grim search and recovery operation. investigators hope theyre a step closer to finding the flight data recorders, the so-called black boxes...

All 49 people on board. >> we put our lives in the hands of people that we assume that the faa is and the airlines are properly training. >> reporter: both black boxes, the cockpit flight recorder divulge panic in the cockpit as the plane tumbles towards the ground. marvin says jesus christ and were down. rebecca trying to say something but cut short by her own scream. >> pitched and rolled and this horrifying fact. the pilots were joking around as the plane slowed in the final minutes before tr...

Before the recovery it was thought the plane speed sensor were to blame. but the black boxes reveal the pilots were at fault. a transcript from the cockpit voice recorders shows confusion in the cockpit. >> we still have engines. what the hell is happening, one asks. another copilot said climb climb climb and the captain said no dont climb. air flight 3407 also stalls and disappears off radar. >> colgan 3407 buffalo. >> colgan 3407 approach. >> delta 1998 look off your right side about five mile...

150 feet or so below the surface of the water, that could take some time. they want to milk sure they pick up all the debris on the surface they can. and then look for the fuselage which probably still contains many, if not most of the victims. and looking for the tail section of the plane, which will hold those all-important black boxes, cockpit voice and flight data recorder, in particular will have about 1,000 points of telemetry data recorded. it will tell investigators what condition the pl...

Sonar has discovered this plane, but say if this is true, if the plane were to be upside down what does that tell us? >> its really once the aircraft penetrates the top of the water, at that point its anyones guess as to where it would end up and particularly because it hasnt been validated. tony is confident about the fact that it hasnt been validated and the information wasnt true and we thought we knew more yesterday than we did today because the information thats coming out is not reliable a...

Coordinate to search and they just systemically go through it and they check off the boxes, if you will. so they know they have covered all of the areas where the wreckage could be. and they just backtrack working back to where the point of impact would be. and then at that point of course where the point of impact is is where theyre going to want to get divers and submersibles and get those assets there as quickly as possible to get those all-important cockpit voice recorder and flight data rec...