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Washington this morning. thank you. i want to talk more about the search for flight 8501 with former inspector general of the u.s. department of transportation mary schiavo, im also joined by thomas altschuler the vice president of teledine marine system which is helps locate planes. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. thomas i want to start with you because your company makes an underwater suv that might be used in this search. can you tell us more about that? >> so what w...

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Airplane can mean a couple of things. if indeed under microscope you look at that metal and a skrak had propagated earlier, you can tell that happened and whether it was quick, slow moving tear or abrupt, sudden tear. that you can see under a microscope to give you clues as to whether the aircraft landed as a ditching and then broke apart or whether it landed all at once or went into the nose. all of that can be determined by a few small pieces of metal. >> and what about the location, if those ...

Here i dont think there is any possibility of that having lost control. we thing. up at 36,000 feet. so the -- the fact there is a big piece, is fortunate. i dont think we will find the plane intact. we know that because there has been the, the body that have been found. >> yeah. so if its -- say the plane is upside done again. that is "the wall street journal" reporting. does that say anything. could it be the currents? >> it could. >> yeah. yeah. it could be either. could have come down that w...

That air craft broke up in flight. we know these thunderstorms can be a threat to air traffic. >> and obviously with capable of tearing apart even modern jetliners. what about the underwater search for the black box itself? will they use pinger shreds or visually for whatever remains of the aircraft are there on the sea bed? >> at this point, i am sure they are using all of the assets they can, including the listening devices. this is shallow water so you may not need the equipment that was used...

It was from this high altitude upset. it may have hit the water upsidedown right way up. >> that wouldnt really tell us a lot. >> the fact that there is a blink of the plane in the water, is that encouraging? because, oofbl obviously, they want to get to the tail section, because thats where the flight data recorder is. >> if indeed we had a situation like mh 317 and spread out over 350 piles, that would make it very difficult if there was a midair explosion a bomb or something leak that. the fa...

Celebration marching the new year. marking the new year. what do you anticipate from the search efforts? >> i think it will depend on the weather. they are hoping to eventually get a break and do a better job of pinpointing where the wreckage might be from flight 8501. were talking about depths in the sea of 100 to 160 feet so the hope is it would be easy to identify and retrieve the fusel lodge and the belongings and the critical black boflxes which were in the tail section. this could take tim...

Upside down according to "the wall street journal." on tuesday, recovery teams bring in pieces of debris ashore, along with the remains of six passengers and a flight attendant. authorities now faced with a grew some task, recovering more of the passengers from the wreckage, and identifying the bodies for grief-stricken families, but some still hold onto hope. one woman with six family members on board telling cnn, there is nothing confirmed as far as what happened to the passengers, and we are ...

Seven bodies. the first two arrived in simple wooden caskets with number 001 and 002. the head of the search operation says one of the seven bodies was that of a flight attendant while local media reports the other was a teenage boy. as for search of the wreckage its been slowed by the monsoonal weather conditions there. and theres a question of whether plane wreckage has been spotted under the water. the ceo of air asia says thats not been confirmed. as crews search for victims, investigators a...