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>> flight delays because of stormy weather. >> no pilot is going to willingly knowingly, foolishly take their aircraft into a deadly storm. but these things happen womenly and circumstances change. >> david gallo, your thoughts on that for a moment here. here you have a lot of stormy weather in the region. we dont know by the way, we dont know what causes this plane to come down it could have been something very different. we just dont know. the early indications are the last word from the pilot...

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...

Flight instruments were damaged by weather. youre instrumental in the air france investigation. we know that the instruments played a critical role. what questions do you have what thoughts do you have about perhaps the role of instruments in this? >> well were going to have to wait michaela. in the case of air france 447, the plane was, found in several miles of water beneath the atlantic ocean. i dont recall looking, what the results were looking at the cockpit instrumentation, certainly they ...

The searchers have been lowered down by helicopter. to find bodies from the water as well as debris. >> the focus is on the people on the passengers and the crew. >> the most important clue now is the black boxes. >> theyll be able to piece together precisely what happened to this aircraft. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning to you and welcome to "new day," im michaela pereira along with john berman and christine romans. we want to turn now to our breaking news -- airasia confirming t...

Was last known. the awfulness of picking up and recovering the deceased is under way. you pick up the wreckage. that is now whatever wreckage you can find. and you start to bring in the necessary equipment to find the black boxes. the so-called flight reporters, which as we know are actually orange or red. and you bring in they will find them relatively quickly. this is not going to be a difficult job. in the shallow waters of the java sea. youll bring in the locators youll recover them. youll e...

To get there. murky water. talk about some of those challenges in terms of getting to the actual debris. >> well youve got to find it first of all. well theyve done that youve got to find the main debris field, well, mary as elgabtegantly said youll work backwards until you find it and then you go into the water and start searching. in 447, they found the debris field, they found where the fuselage was. but they still had several months before they could find the black boxes. because after, ther...

Activities finding the last-known location of the plane are very important. i think the 370 investigation really threw people off. and i think -- >> it changed our expectations really didnt it? >> it did. it made people question a lot of the things that had worked for us in the past. but you follow those protocols, you follow those procedures. you know where the last radar hit. where the last communication was. and what the crew might have communicated at the end. that will help you walk things ...

Seabed. so they need equipment to detect those pieces of aircraft. also the black boxes. they could ask the u.s. for the toe pinger locater used for mh370. the ntsb monitoring the situation, but theyre willing and ready to help if needed. >> rene marsh in washington thanks so much. our next guest, john know all about these sorts of investigations, they are both former heads of the national transportation safety board. jim hall and debra hersman joins us. deborah is now president of the nationa...

Box send streaming data if theres a serious altitude or pitch adjustment. thats a question. why in an emergency, could the black boxes not stream data to authorities. >> the technology exists theres a huge debate in the aviation industry over exactly how it should move forward. what information you should send. how frequently you should send it. >> is it expensive? >> expense is one reason. that -- but thats not the only reason. with the sheer number of planes in the sky at the moment. there isn...