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Just about 40 minutes after this plane took off. what that last signal was specifically and what it tells us? >> right. and theres a little bit of a, a little bit of a mystery about some of the signals. now the initial information said that first the radar data went down which is really nothing more than coordinates. the radar shows you where you are and it is primary radar, its literally just a blip on the screen and if you have a secondary, then you have altitude and other information. and the...

Families are waited with baited edbathed bretd. indonesia officials are urging caution. theyre preparing people from the worst. from their coordinates they believe the plane crashed in the java sea and underwater. a lot of questions what happened. and why were the other planes in the area that were flying in this same area when the plane went off radar why did they not have any trouble. >> one question is what role bad weather played in the experience of air asia flight 8501 as katie tur mention...

Its monday afternoon in indonesia. the families of the 162 people on board airasia 8501 praying and hoping for some positive news, but it doesnt look good. indonesias national search and rescue chief says based on the coordinates from when it was last heard from, it likely crashed and is likely at the bottom of the java sea. search teams, the airliner disappearing from radar a little less than halfway through its planned flight to singapore. the u.s. navy is standing by if needed. meantime, a ...

Its easier than if its an underwater location. because of the coordinates that we received suggested it a is underwater our resumption now is that the aircraft is under the sea. >> if airasia flight 5001 is sitting at the bottom of the sea it could make piecing together what happened just much difficult. joining me is now is john goglia former member of the national transportation safety board. good morning, sir. >> good morning. >> so the search has been suspended because its night fall over th...

Being deployed from several countries now, several ships and aircraft now involved in that search. and just before this news conference started, the families of the passengers were also briefed by airasia officials. that was close to the media. but being able to see at least the reaction on the faces of some of those families they were grim-faced showing very little emotion to what they were being being toldtold. there was a press conference in jakarta where it was suggested the plane is at the ...

Likely on the bottom of the sea. based on coordinates of the planes last transmission. here at surabaya airport, its become crisis central. the distraught family members were briefed here earlier today behind closed doors. monday marks the first full day of searching since 8501 disappeared early sunday morning. so far, the plane has not put out any signals that could help pinpoint its location. instead, crews focus on this very broad search zone over the shallow waters of the java sea where the ...

Theres no -- i dont want to say it at first but then everythings possible at the moment. >> yes. absolutely. and it will be interesting to see if there are witnesses and confirmed reports of people who saw something because right now all we know is that this airplane was ascending to 38,000 feet and after vectoring around a severe thunderstorm that other planes before and after encount encountered encountered, all contact with the plane was lost. we are told they do have the coordinates of the l...

Astonishing aircraft mystery. so however tragic this case is i would be surprised if were looking at another mh370. i think thats where the similarity would probably start. mh370 was such a unique situation were likely to find out what happened much sooner with this one. >> right. because there was things going on in the cockpit of mh370 that no one could make sense of. not the case here from what we know of 8501. and as you just said they do have the last radar coordinates. is that correct? >> ...

That region at the time? >> well really the picture right now is quite unclear. we do know that the aircraft has disappeared. we do know it did request to change course. and we kind of know vaguely the last known coordinates of the aircraft. those have been given. the number of passengers and so forth. but right now were at this time in the incident which is -- its very early. i mean nobody really knows whats happened to the aircraft. presumably it has crashed, however. and its likely if it cras...

Time. les will be able to give us much more indication about the difficulties of climbing from 32,000 to 38,000 feet quite quickly when the envelope of safety is really quite small. of water, and the weather is known. >> okay. phillip, before i turn to les, indonesian air traffic control lost contact early this morning after flight 8501 requested a deviation due to weather. based on last known coordinates of the plane and what kind of information i suppose is it that