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And more difficult. there have been calls, there is a chance that some people may have to jump in the water in order to be rescued. but obviously, were hoping that we wont get toe that point. the greek prime minister is in contact with his italian counterparts. its being monitored by both countries. it is a joint operation. there are a number of people very close to the ship. it seems to be very difficult to get the people out for the time being. >> we understand the complexities and the weather...

Several hours. you were saying the one thing that people went through that was so hard to take with the investigation with mh 370 was transparency and communication and openness. >> reporter: and certainly, natalie, in the initial hours, when a plane goes missing, and there arent a lot of answers, it does take a while for any organization to get their emergency teams in place, get their information, the means to deliver the information to the families. so there are going to be delays in the init...

Center indicating a very active weather pattern. if there is a search and recovery effort going forward, aircraft around that area need to be careful of similar weather patterns and also the rough sea on the ocean because of the waves that have formed. >> we have a reporter on a ship right now headed to search and certainly, there are two c-130s right now. they are built to sometimes fly into hurricanes arent they. but commercial aircraft never into a thunderstorm. >> thats right. they try to di...

All contact was lost with the airplane. most of that planes flight path took it over open water. and if youre looking at the map here that green country, where you see the plane was, not really over but from the perspective of the map, it looks like it. thats malaysia. of so this is the region that has seen two air disasters in this past year. that right there shows where this plane was when air traffic control lost contact with the airplane over the java sea. we know that there are c-130s there...

Absolutely. and as we said the ceo of airasias on his way right now to surabaya. and perhaps when he gets there we will get more information from the leadership of the airline. will ripley we thank you from beijing for us. weve been talking to many aviation experts for several hours. weve been on the air just a little over five hours now, just talking about what we do know with it this flight and what it was dealing with when we last heard from the pilots. julian bray is an aviation expert based...

They were resigned to the fact that they still didnt have answers. and here we are now ending the year which has been a horrible air travel year in asia. and those families, mh 370 families still truly dont know where their families are. there are search operations in the indian ocean that have so far turned up no tangible evidence. there are some includes some educated guesses that they going on. this doesnt seem the case here. unlike mh 370, there were no technical problems and the transpondin...

Of the people from mh 370. >> we are presuming this plane did crash. we dont know if it crashed in tact or not. weve had many analysts talking about what situations might cause it to as far as if there was ice or hail that just caused the plane to freeze. but anyway, there are a lot of questions to be answered. a lot of information to be put out there, and we havent heard from airasia in a while. are you in kuala lumpur. its so hard to look at people who happen to be in an airport, and there are...

370. their families still dont know where their loved ones are. if there is one thing we can hope for in this tragedy, it is for answers for the families. we hope that they are given the respect that they deserve, the company will continue to be transparent, to set up all the support systems that they need so they can get from airasia, from the different governments involved quick, efficient and compass nat information. theyre hopefully not learning about it from watching the news or reading the...