Pilots have been making all arrangements. Cnns gary tuckman is at the International Airport in indonesia. He joins us live. Gary, the families are there. Theyre trying to help them through an unimaginable difficult time. Their courage is unbelievable inspirational. I walked back there to that room. Thats where they are. Hes got 100 people in there right now. All sitting in chairs and theyre watching the news. Theres three mon tors and theyre watching updates. Theyre just very stoic. For the most part, just looking at the tvs and trying to get as much information as they can. What theyre going through, youre right, is unimaginable but how theyre dealing with it is incredible. I dont know how many of us can deal with this situation like these people are. The communication has been rather good here with indonesia officials. Theyre answering any questions they have at anytime they want the questions answered even if they dont have the answers. Thats providing some comfort. A seventh body was found. Six passengers and one of the bodies found is a Flight Attendant. Weve also been told by the government course that sonar has indeed confirmed where the plane is on the bottom of the that va sea. However, other Officials Say it may have confirmed. Two families members say theyve been told in a meeting sonar found the plane. Whether its in one piece or upside down we dont know the answer to that. But we do know at the very least, it has been found and the fact is the water here is relatively shallow. 100 feet deep at the most theyre saying. That will make the search easier. What makes it tougher is were in a pea soup fog right now in this city. Its very windy and blustery on the water. It could be the weather that helped precipitate this accident and the weather thats making the recovery at this point more difficult. It was a rescue mission to begin with. At this point, most of the people in inside this room if to not all the people have acknowledged the fact that their loved ones arent going to come back. Gary i think whats been so obvious, this has been a very public grieving process. Like you say, there are a few meters away from a huge media contingent. Theyre trying to learn as much as they can. But now begins the task of them having to hand over dna, photographs of their loved ones. The next few days are going to be inkreable tough, arent they . Its very difficult, but theres a sense of mission and a sense of love for your relatives where you know you have to do that and you do that willingly and you do that gladly. You want to help in the recovery process. That leads to this the number one question that officials here tell us theyre being asked is when will you find the body of my loved ones. Anything that helps in doing that these people who are suffering so much are very glad to do. One of the big concerns is they may not recover all of the bodies. Theyve found seven so far. Obviously when the divers get there, the ships get there out there, that process will move along a lot faster. That brings us to the point, lets go to our weather center. Where we want to talk about how the weather might impact the search the rescue operation. Not only for the fuselage but also for victims. What do you know and what do you think is going to make out for the next few days. Shallower water, the currents are stronger in these shallower bat waters and we know murky to say the at least. Mudlike clay in this portion of the java sea. Theres a debris Field Location 100 to 200 kill meters from the last point of the aircraft. Satellite loop in motion here for you. Tremendous Thunderstorm Development on this infrared satellite imagery that we see north of the java sea. We do have some moderate storms taking place and low clouds also. So the weather is better across this region. But still far from ideal. So we take you through the model forecasting into the afternoon and evening hours, about four hours left before sunset. The weather going to be improving over the next four hours. Isolated showers. This is early thursday morning. Thunderstorms really begin to blossom across this region. Certainly going to be choppy as well on thursday morning. And really much of thursday. Even into the afternoon hours. Storms push through this region only until about 2 00 or 3 00 in the afternoon do we start to see improvement in the way of weather. Thats the concern over the next three days. Could see three inches of hateful across the area. A predominant area of one plus millimeters expected in this region. Want to talk about the ocean currents and how they could impact the debris field. Because the debris field again, 60 to 120 miles away from the last point of contact. The currents here move at roughly 1 miles an hour. Were about 80 hours removed from the point when this plane went down. So quick math tells you, roughly 80 miles of motion, which puts it in the 60 to 120 scale. So it makes sense where this debris field is located. But it also makes sense the debris is going to be on the move very slowly. You walk generally at 3 miles an hour. So this is 1 3 of the speed as you take a calm walk through your neighborhood perhaps. Unfortunately when you get through this region theres marshy landscape. You want to get to this debris field as quickly as possible. It gets a lot more complex when it pushes into a terrain like this. The weather has been a factor since the very beginning. Some title information as to what went wrong onboard that plane. Where searchers are looking and what clues they may find. There are three layers to the physical search. We know where the plane took off, we know where it disappeared, we know where they have found debris in the search area and we know the water is very rough at times. The surface matters because the surface is where you get your first clues most often. Things floating on top of the water may or may not tell you a lot about the cause of the accident, but they are indicators. When you look at the second layer layer, the water column beneath them, and you start reverse erng nearing against all the competing currents below, you can get an estimate on where they came from. And that can lead you to the third layer down here, which is the heavy bits on the bottom. Those are the ones you really have to get. What are we talking about in the were talking about big parts of the plane, parts of the wings and parts of the tail parts of the landing gear the electronics, the flight data record e, the voice recorders, the engines which are each about 9,000 pounds. All of these are critical. If you collect enough of them as they did with twa800, which was also in about 100 feet of water off the coast of long island you can reassemble the plane in effect. And when you do that you can look at all these pieces and figure out what went wrong. Was there a fire . Was there an explosion . Did did it simply tear apart . Did it hit the water intact and then sink . All of those can be critical clues to understanding what happened. Much more unfolding on this story after the break. Hope gives way to grief as we learn more about the live of those people who died on flight 8501 including a veteran pilot, a husband and father of two. The children still need a father. I still also need a guidance from a husband. Hes a good husband in my eyes. And hes a faithful husband. Well also look at how air asia is confronting its first crisis ever and also take an in depth future as at one of malaysias Business Success stories. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk. [ meows ]. 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But rough waters are complicating the efforts. Loved ones of those onboard have hope that somehow they would be found alive. But now that debris and bodies have been found, that hope has been given way to unbearable grief. Each piece of debris discovered represents the destruction of their last hopes. The only slight benefit is that for some people theres closure. Wreckage was discovered on tuesday, along with three bodice of those onboard. This is a scar with me for the rest of my life. Now as victims belongings are collected from the sea, the world is gaining a clearer picture of who we leave lost. 162 souls, including 18 children. One of the first pilots to spot debris told the indonesian newspaper compass that he saw victims floating in the water Still Holding hands. Its perhaps an apock riffle tale but it is symbolic of the tragedy. In this south Korean Church the congregation is weeping for one of their missionaryies. Park song bong as well as for his wife and their 11monthold daughter gone along with them a fiancee whose chance to become a husband will never come. He parished along with his family on their last trip together. A. It was supposed to be their last vacation before got marry popped. Britains only citizen aboard was traveling with his 2yearold daughter zoe when the plane went down. According to the newspaper the telegraph telegraph the father boarded this flight because there were not enough seats to fly with his wife and son on another. The wife of the pilot is mourning as well. Translator the children still need a father. I still also need a guidance from a husband. Hes a good husband in my eyes and hes a faithful husband. The captain was an experienced Indonesian Air force veteran whose daughter posted this photo on social media, pleading for his return. A return that tragically will never happen. Well air as y5 ceo Tony Fernandez is pledging his support to the families on board that flight. Hes called the planes disappearance his worst nightmare, but sighs hes got to sfa strong for the families. I apologize profusely for what theyre going through. Im the leader of this company. Im not running away from my only cases. Even though we dont know whats wrong, the challenges were on my aircraft and i have to take responsibility for that. And i have tried to be as honest as i can. They had been flying high expanding its fleet and dhajing competitors. Until flight 8501 made national headlines, air asia was a local success story. An entrepreneur bought a failing airline with two airplanes to its name and 11 million in debt. Today its the biggest low Cost Carriers on the continent. Its fleet of 158 planes fly to 83 destinations in 17 countries. And it celebrated its success with some flare. A former beauty queen turned pilot appears on its annual report. Air asia was called a pioneer in 2007 for importing the low cost mad el to asia. In its eely day, some of its flights cost just a few dollars a seat. The founders saw an opportunity 234 southeast asias rapidly growing middle class. That growth has attracted rivals. There are now nearly 60 lowCost Carriers in the region and that hurt air asias results in 2014. With the airline clocking one of its worst quarters in its 13year history. But now, worries about revenue are giving way to worries about reputation. Flight qz8501 is air asias first major crisis. And as investigators piece together the cause of the crash, one of malaysias biggest Success Stories could unravel. Richard quest says what happens next for the airline is a period of intense review. I think what the company will do now, its going to be a moment of introspection because they will obviously be looking at what caused the pilots to do what they did. Once the final report is known you have as an airline, as any airline does, you say where did we fail . If we failed at all. For an airline thats grown so fast, that will be the key moment. The reputation will be damage the but let me tell you, there are a lot of airlines in asia that has dreadful reputation. Theres no doubt they survive. There will be a moment in which it has to decide and reflect what went wrong, if anything did. And the rest of the industry, and this is core the rest of the industry has to actually analyze whether the regular environment has enough strength in the region. Well air asias ceo says once the investigation is finished, if changes are needed they will be made. And of course, to update our viewers on this breaking news here on cnn, a major discovery in the search for air asia flight 8501. The wreckage at the bottom of the java sea. Well talk live with an aviation expert on what were learning from thf latest discovery. Stay with us. Thanks. [ male announcer ] fedex® has solutions to enable Global Commerce that can help your company grow steadily and quickly. Great job. mandarin cut it out. See you tomorrow. Indonesian Authorities Say theyve found the location of air asian flight 8501 using sonar. They say its at the bottom of the java sea, but they still dont know whether the main body of the plane is in one piece. Were joined now by an aviation expert from sydney australia. A lot of conflicting information coming out. We probably dont know everything. What do you make so far of what youre seeing, the pictures and of course the latest information that they might have found the main body of the plane . 4 4. Robin, hello, yes. Theres conflicting information. I do hope i sincerely hope that really is the body of the aircraft that theyve located pen they seem to be quite positive about it. And using modern sonar and technology its a good chance they have got it. But weshld also remember that that area was subject of heavy fighting in the Second World War and you would be surprised of the number of war sites that still exist in the shallow waters aircrafts and shifts and they do find b aircraft from time to time for the last 70 years. Anyway hopefully that is 8501. If it is they should be able to get tot flight data and cockpit voice recorders very quickly. Its in shallow waters and dooifrts should be able to achieve that. The kr are zr as i tried to say earlier, im quite confused saying bodies that look as though theyve fallen some distance through free air. And it doesnt seem to fit with the idea that the aircraft may have landed intact. However, the aircraft could also have broken up on landing, which it would do in any case because of the speet at which it would have hit the water. I dont see any orderly attempt to evacuate the aircraft. Even if it had fallen intact from 36,000 feet, it would have been a quite dramatic and traumatizing fall. The aircraft doesnt seem likely that the aircraft was under control. It seems that it was more in a staal or in some form of uncontrolled descent. There are difficult to say at this point in time. Evidence will start to come together very quickly as they start to recover parts of the aircraft and most particularly if that i recover the cockpit voice recordner which we will hear the discussion between the two pilots and the noises of warping bells and ore signals and any other activity that took place in the cockpit. That should become available very quickly. Thank you so much for that analysis captain desmond ross. Well check in with you if we get any more information. Well also have much more on the ongoing snerj the java sea a little bit later. But first, lets check on some other headlines were following here on cnn. Authorities in western kaubd say a man kale kilned eight people before taking his own life. Edmonton police say its the biggest mass murder there in nearly 60 years. Nine bodies were found in three separate crime scenes. One woman was found at a residence monday night and several more victims including two children were found in a second location overnight. The man believed to be the suspect was later found dead inside a restaurant. Police say the mans family members had feared he was suicidal. And the pentagon says that it has sent five prisoners from the u. S. Prison in Guantanamo Bay cuba to kazakhstan for resettlement. Three of men are from yemen, two from dunisia and spent more than a decade at the facility. The u. S. Has stepped up efforts to shut down the prison and transferred more than two dozen prisoners this year. And a ferry that caught fire in the adriatic sea over the weekend is still smoldering as it ges towards an italian port. Its being towed there. The ship isis expected to arrive later today. Two albanian sea mep were kill during the salvage operation. That brings the death toll to 11. Italian Officials Say that could rise further because of discrepancies in the passenger logs. Authorities believe sundays fire began in the ferrys vehicle bay. A criminal investigation is under way. And were tracking that major discovery in the search for air asia flight 8501. Wreckage found at the bottom of the java sea according to ibd neegs authorities. Live reports from indonesia and australia after the short break. You dont think much about it. You never dwell on how it was made. Its just a blanket after all. But when Everything Else has been lost, the comfort it provides is immeasurable. The america red cross brings hope and help to people in need every 8 minutes every day. So this season give something that means something. Support us at redcross. Org youre watching cnn. More now on our top story. The wreckage of air asia 8501 now located on the bottom of java sea. Lets go live straight to gary tuckman at the International Airport in indonesia. Hi there, gary. Weve been talking over the past few hur hours and whats so striking is that youre so close to many of the family members. This has been a very public grieve progress says. What have you seen and what have some of them told you . Sometimes you feel as if youre intruding on their prooifty, but were trying our best to tell a story. About 30 minutes ago, sthed a tell conference in the room behind me behind the door in the airport. And during the tell conference with ipd neegs officials, they were officially told that a seventh body was recovered. 162 pe