Vanished early sunday during stormy stormy weather. It was flying from the indonesian city of surabaya to singapore. Distraught family members have gathered now at that airport in surabaya where the flight originated. Thats where we find david molko. David, thanks so much for joining me. I cant imagine. I know youre experiencing it alongside them. The grief at that airport, the families learning of that news today. Talk to us about the latest and the recovery effort. What do we know . Hi michaela. Its just 11 00 in the evening here in surabaya and indonesia tonight, surabaya a city in morning, indonesia a nation in mourning confirming that the plane has gone down and that searchandrecovery operation is under way. Whats also different tonight from the past two nights is that operation is continuing around the clock. You haveships in the search zone. We imagine that there are planes that are potentially on the way. The search not suspended by any means, the president joko widodo was here in surabaya at the Crisis Center speaking to families a few hours ago and he said this is an all out effort, our numberone priority is to bring back as many human remains as possible to search and to recover anything and everything thats possible. So right now we know from the head of indonesias searchandrescue agency that at least three bodies have been recovered. Conditions are pretty challenging out there. This is a relatively shallow water, about 100 miles off the coast of borneo we understand in the java sea but the conditions are choppy. Its cloudy were getting reports of fog and then there are waves up to ten feet. Earlier we heard from an Indonesian Naval official who said we spotted two bodies but we were only able to recover one. This is a grim task. 162 men, women, children on board that airasia flight and theres a lot of hard work in the hours ahead. Michaela . And many people from the very same families you were telling us yesterday about the flight manifest showing sur names that were similar. We know this is going to mean devastation to so so many families. Youve been in that Crisis Center that theyve set up. Are you getting a sense that some of the people there, some of the family members are Still Holding out hope there could be survivors found . Michaela theres hope but i think hope is fading. I talked to two families in particular tonight. The first one is a couple who had four family members on that plane, including two grandchildren, theyre from a town about three hours outside of surabaya. And they said, you know, theres a small chance, a 5 chance that somebody may have survived and were holding out hope just so we can have at least one member of our family back. And so we can find out what happened. I also talked to another gentleman, his name is Rudy Theodoros and he had four family members on the plane traveling to singapore on holiday to celebrate the new year and what he said was fairly different. He said hes confident that the best theyre going get at this point is the remains of their family members coming back to them. Amidst that grief, amidst the heartache, though some strength. He said im the leader of my family, my wife i have to be strong for my wife and other family members here and im seeing myself as the figure that has to lead and be strong and i just hope for the best and hope that we are able to have at least the remains of our families back here with us. We certainly admire his strength. David molko, we all think about the fact that most of us traveled at some point during these holidays or will and the idea that we could lose our families like that in the blink of an eye is a sobering thought, indeed. Our thoughts and prayers go to those families. David, thank you. Airasias Ceo Tony Fernandes wrote my heart is filled with sadness. On behalf of airasia, my condolences to all, words cannot express how sorry i am. He has met with many members of the family there is and is present in indonesia making sure they feel the sentiments of the airline. We want to talk about the other search, the search for answers into why that airbus 320 ended up in the water. Richard quest has been very busy and hes here with me. Richard, we know the evidence lies in the flight data recorders. Talk to us about that. Remind us how those boxes are designed to inform us what happened aboard the flight. Okay. What those black boxes and there were two of them the cockpit voice recorder, that will be recording everything that is said in the cockpit, including all the surrounding noises over a twohour period. Built to withstand any impact. Absolutely. Certainly with the impact were talking about here even in the shallow waters you havent got the pressure of depth that we nave 370. So the cockpit voice recorder will tell us what the pilots were dealing with and how they dealt with it. But the data recorder will tell us in a much greater detail every single thing you wanted to know from how the aircraft was performing, the engines, the conditions. All the systems. The inputs. So for example, if you as the captain made a move, did something with the controls it would tell us it was your side that did it. If i did it it would tell it was my side that did. It and also if the plane reacted. It would tell us lets say, for example, there was a sudden updraft or a sudden the weather was having you would know from the meteorological data what was happening and then you literally you plot it on to a timeline. So what they do is they put the voice recorder then they put all the imput then they put the weather and they build up a realtime picture of exactly what was happening in the cockpit and they can tell you to the nth detail right down to the power of the chimes and noises and alarms. Whats different from mh370 we cant help but make comparisons we watched how t battery life on those data recorders slipped away from us. Time is on our side here correct . First of all, they know where the wreckage is. And if this has transpired as many believe, its a tightly controlled tightknit small debris field, you go down there and they may not need the pingers, they may be able to literally work their way to it because they know whereabouts it should be. And the key is you get control of the boxes and what happens . Custody and control . Custody and control. You send the boxes to a an Investigative Authority that has the experience of decoding it. You cant just crack them open and get the data out. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Theres a big warning sign on the box saying do not hope do not touch. They may have to put them into water because theyve been in water. They have to be careful. Depends on the condition of the boxes having been in sea water for several days or weeks. And then they decode it. I would imagine singapore has the ability if not australia certainly does the uk france the u. S. They will go somewhere and will be decoded . And several of those nations have lent their efforts to the searchandrecovery so we know theyll be landing in their hands. Can we get you to stick around . We have more questions that we want to get to you with in just a moment. Ahead, well look at the clues and try to read them. What our next guest sees signs that suggest some passengers could have survived . Well ask him about that. Also, in other news back here state side he is the numberthree republican in the house. A few years back he spoke to a White Supremacist Group. 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Weve just received a statement that the wife of the pilot of the airline, airasia flight 8501 has made to within of the local tv stations in surabaya. Im going to read it to you. This is the transcript in english. Id like to know where my husband is. I wish my husband was found immediately. I hope as his wife he will be back and well and alive. The children still need a father. I still also need guidance from a husband. He is a good husband in my eyes and he is a faithful husband, a great husband. I cant name all his qualities, he is a great husband for me. Again, that is the wife of the pilot. He had over 20,000 hours of flight time. We know this was an experienced pilot, pilot irianto. So many questions to be answered. Debris has been located. That debris includes an emergency exit door. We also know bodies have reportedly been seen and three of them have been recovered in the java sea. A u. S. Ship is helping in the recovery of airasia flight 8501 and the search for the 162 people who were aboard. The answers to what exactly went wrong. Well as we mentioned with Richard Quest a moment ago, theyre locked away in that planes black box. So far no word they have been located. Lets bring back Richard Quest, our aviation analyst and former Inspector General of the department of transportation mary schiavo and author of why planes crash david soucie. Richard, ill start with you. Obviously in terms of where the the debris was located, there was a much larger field, some 13 zones that they were searching, an area the size of georgia. Their narrowed it down when they were able to spot this debris. How does that help them paint backwards to what happened . Dont confuse the fact they said this is the search zone from where they were actually searching. Okay. Make that clear to us. Well they say were going to extend the zone. Thats the logical thing you do when you cant find anything immediately, you widen it out. But it doesnt mean youve suddenly shifted everything to the furthest extremity of the zone. Say with mh370, if you look at the zone its huge it doesnt mean theyre combing the whole lot of it. They go to where the most likely place is. And as david soucie will tell us you start with where the lastknown place of the aircraft. So now that this is where the debris was recovered, the smaller yellow box we just saw in our screen they can start, as you said not just from the black box because its not found but from the debris and the knowledge of the currents and what else they find on the ground they can start to paint a picture of what happened. Well up to a point. Up to a point. Up to a point. The debris will tell them how the aircraft came apart. So for example, a bomb blast, which isnt in this case. It would have residue. It would show strains, certain parts of the metal may have twisted in tern areas. The impact, the dense, all that would be shown on the actual metal. We saw these images and we also keenly looked at them, these were the first signs of debris and we know there was an area that there was a lot of debris. Its a big shifting area. But you saw something that made you say, wait wait wait, there could be a survivor. Which i think were so reluctant to even go there, david. What made you think that . I am as well. It was kind of an initial reaction andern soly what made me think about that was the fact that there was a door and right below the door is mounted the slide, an exit slide so whether or not it deployed or came apart during the breakup, thats still in question. They dont deploy unless theyre deployed on their own . Well typically thats right but this slide has not been inflate sod therefore it was likely not inflated for an escape purpose, it came out as the door came apart. So its too early to say there were survivors or to say there is or isnt. Its just a matter that its observation wise it looks to me as though its a slide. Theres an exit door to put those together as something that was done after the aircraft hit the water is premature. Mary and this is really grim and i want to tread carefully here because obviously its its so horrific what has happened here but we know that the state of the bodies investigators will be able to understand information when they recover those remains. Thats right. In this kind of an accident and ive worked other over water and ending up in water accidents. If theres not as richard mentioned, if theres not a case of explosive residue, et cetera you can tell in terms of how the bodies entered the water, what caused the Blunt Force Trauma which is how they always describe it. Just really how extensive the plane disintegration was. You can see that on the bodies. Here i think the preliminary reports as well that they had been the in the water for some time but the ones they found so far were intact. You cant read much into that and i dont read anything into the slides by the way and the life vest because in almost every water accident that ive worked on those things were floating and people did not survive the impact. Its just they come out of the plane when the plane breaks apart and lots of things float and usually you see luggage, life vests, life rafts, shoes float. And its pretty typical. Richard, does it surprise you that more debris hasnt been found or are the currents there so strong that it wouldnt necessarily be grouped together . Both. I mean there will be more. This is this is its early days. This is hour two, three, four, five six of finding but it spreads out. You know, the plane hits the water with a ferocity. It breaks up and large parts of it like the engines, for example, heavy parts, will sink. If the engine its very unlikely to have stayed on the wing but if they stayed on the wing and the wing disintegrated that will go down it with. And the rest of it michaela it breaks up into little pieces the ferocity is so great. So yes, you will have think of 447. You have one or two major pieces you have to tail. The rest of it literally goes into a million and plus little pieces. Some will float and spread out, the majority will sink. And we could remind you 12 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time so its about 11 18 at night. Well have to get a sense once daylight comes what kind of efforts continue. Our thanks to Richard Quest, david soucie mary schiavo, the three of you, we appreciate it. A man about to be married, a teacher, families heading out on vacation. Ahead, were going to take a look at just who was aboard airasia flight 8501. If you would like to help some of those affected by this crash, please visit our web site, cnn. Com impact. 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I want you to consider this a man who was about to be married, missionaries, a biology teacher, an 11monthold baby some of the 162 passengers a aboard the airasia flight. Now their families are dealing with the grim reality of life without them. Search and rescue turning into a recovery operation. Rosa flores joins us. We felt it was important to not let people be statistics but put faces and names to the identities of these people. Youre hearing from some of the families about these victims. We are, as you might imagine, michaela its very difficult for these families to even talk to the media. Imagine having a microphone in your face while youre trying to grieve your loved one. One woman did and itsoverwhelm ing we motion. Take a look. Translator my brother never flew with airasia so i kept calm. Then someone told me they saw his name on tv. Then i saw it. As you might imagine, very tough for that woman and for many others who are there waiting, waiting to hear the best about their loved one, i also talked to the principal of one of the schools in that area and she tells me she knows five people on board that flight three of them her students and also her parents. Heres what she said. Shes a very cheerful girl and always having fun and joking with her friends. We are really so shocked with this news. And we are praying and we are waiting for good news. Bless her heart. She tells me that there is just so much emotion right now that theyre feeling. And one nation bearing the brunt. Over 150 of them are indonesian. You know what i always think in these scenarios are the people that missed their flight. Their alarm clock didnt go off or they didnt get a cab to the airport in time there were likely several of those kind of stories as well. Yes, definitely so. Were learning about a man, his wife and their child. They lost their flight. And hear this a family of ten who lost the flight. So heres what happened. The Departure Time changed and they didnt get the email. They didnt get the notice. Initially they were upset like you and i would be when we lose our flight. Now theyre counting their blessings. Also having to deal with survivors guilt, too. Absolutely. Absolutely. Some of them saying the lord is good to me. Others saying thank you, lord jesus. Just so many emotions because they do sometimes feel a little guilty. And an area that has already dealt with two air disasters, one the downing over ukraine and the other one that missing mh370 still no answers about where that flight went. What a horrific time and a nation in mourning. Thank you so much for that rosa. Its important to know who these people are. This crash is bringing back pain for the families of the flight i just