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it could be days before they can start recovering the victims of flight 9925. the flight crashed in the french alps killing all on board. there s no word on what caused the crash, but one of the black boxes has been recovered. helicopter crews say the plane is in pieces. no piece is bigger than a small car right now. the head of one rescue team says the debris is scattered over ten acres, some in areas much higher than the mountain peaks. translator: our priority is to get as many bodies back as possible so that specialists of criminal identification may be able to identify them. but not only the bodies anything that can help to identify them such as personal belongings which will be scrupulously picked up and taken
so what went wrong? why did an airbus jet like this one suddenly fallout of the sky during the safest part of the flight? thousands of passengers are flying on similar planes right now. zimmerman versus obama. the man acquitted in trayvon martin s death is publicly blaming president obama for racial tensions in america but he s apparently not blaming himself. and ted cruz s surprise. the senator and newly announced presidential candidate reveals new personal information in a one-on-one interview withcnn. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. hundreds of first responders are gathering on a remote mountain site where an aircraft plunged out of the sky. the search has been called off for the night but the helicopter crews have spotted wreckage of the german airliner in the
the java sea, these two large pieces. reporter: certainly a significant find, victor. easily the biggest found so far in the search. it really is a case of two steps forward and one step back. these were found just before midnight on friday. but saturday s search, they couldn t get any closer just because the weather was so bad. as you say, big waves in the area. driving rain and winds which making it obviously very difficult for helicopter crews to get out there to take divers out to the ships. leaving if they could. they got the roc on the vessel which they could not deploy either just because the weather is too bad. but certainly, these two pieces of debris could provide a major clue as to where the main debris field is. the working assumption is still very much the plane went down, the fuselage, mainly intact. which is where the searchers
the air asia pilot asked to change course and fly higher because of the weather but 370 s path was diverted for unknown reasons. it crashed likely in the java sea. flight 370 which has never been located is suspected of crashing in the indian ocean which is very large and of course very deep body of water. now let s get a check on a few of the morning s other headlines. former president george h.w. bush is spending another morning in the hospital but a spokesman says he could be back home soon. the 90-year-old was admitted to houston methodist hospital tuesday after suffering short ps shortness of breath. last year he spent two months in the hospital with a cough but in june he celebrated his birthday by skydiving. creek and italian helicopter crews worked into the night to air lift passengers off this burning ferry adrift in the ark dri adriatic sea.