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The search area wednesday above a specially chartered airasia flight to pray for their loved ones. its unclear if families will move forward with that flight. airasias ceo, tony fernandez, expressing his condolences saying my heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in qz 8501. now the somber task of recovering the wreckage, the flight data and cockpit voice recorders and piecing together what caused the plane to go down. overnight, audio transmissions from airasia 8501s cockpi...

Tweet, sort of alerting my crew in the control room the jacob rossi tweet. he wants to know why in this day and age do we rely on the physical recovery of black boxes? flight data should be continuously streamed to the cloud. this isnt novel. this is something that we talked about back in march when we were talking about the malaysia air flight. what do you think, david? >> id like to defer this to mary because shes been talking about this for almost decades. excuse me to the age reference, mary...

Weve discussed before that this aircraft, you can stall this airline. like we saw with air france 447, a lot going on in a short period of time. i think something we need to think about is when flying near the tops of these storms which the last radio transmission seemed to indicate that was a concern to the crew theres a lot of ice up there. we saw this with air france 447. that changes the protection system in the airplane. when those systems become invalid or start malfunctions the protection...

Sun comes up. >> it is typical when the aircraft crashes into the water, it will break up, and light components will float up and some people will will see pieces of the tail but interior components that are light and they will spot wreckage and then they will lis attorney pings, and the pings are just on the flight data and the cockpit voice voice recorders, and they have a 30-day battery and the world is shifting to 90-day batteries, and i believe they will locate them quickly. >> do you agree...

The fuselage, the flight data and cockpit recorders. ations of this time, time is of the essence. >> joining us by telephone is vice president of the american underwater search and survey. john, what is the search like? what are the challenges? what will they be doing? >> good evening. the challenges will be, first, to locate floating debris which there is likely to be a significant amount. thankfully, the waters are shallow. also, it is much closer to land mass than some of the accidents where ...

That accident there out of jfk, american changed their training program and the word spread throughout the airbus operator fleet that dont do that, you can over power this rudder and laurel literally break it off. so they now train the pilots not to do that in heavy turbulence. do not use the rudder pedals to control the rudder. do not try to correct an imbalance or an upset by using your rudder. i hope we solved that problem but, of course, until we get the recorders, the flight data and cockpi...

>> after days of protests from leaders around the world, there appears to be some cooperate from ukrainian separatists in the recovery of malaysia airlines flight 17. >> yeah, for families this is a long-time coming, this moment. at this moment, a train bearing the bodies of 282 victims is making its way from donetsk to kharkiv. from there, they will be flown to amsterdam, which is where the flight originated. the separatists were reluctant to turn over the bodies. >> the airplanes black box rec...

Would be some indication that someone had warned them before handled. that they had said, youre flying through an area you should not be. get out of here. >> but they were not in an area they werent allowed to be. >> thats true. but they were in a different area than they had been, supposedly. when we look back, they really werent. they were in an area they had flown before as well. so according to these audio tapes that paul will address, it says, why are they here? its a war zone. but there wa...

Growing confusion today over the flight data for mh-17. joining me now for more, former u.s. ambassador, mark ginsburg, also deputy senior adviser for policy to president jimmy carter. ambassador, thanks for joining me. >> hi, alex. >> we now know that at least one american citizen was killed. what should be the u.s. role in an investigation and any possible responses? >> well, the international aviation organization and the united states as well as other countries have an enormous responsibilit...

Humanity and dignity to the site. at this point so much of the evidence has been moved or contaminated. you usually do a grid first. thats why the u.s. ntsb has a go team. they have a jet and they get there fast them map out the area. if the fbi is there, the criminal investigators would take precedence because it is a crime scene. then they start to move thing here. that couldnt be done because of the terrorists have the site. moving the bodies does seem like a logical thing to do to get them t...