Hampering the effort to recover more victims. Bad weather is hindering the search, as well for the planes flight data and cockpit voice recorders, the socalled black boxes. The pingers that help locate the boxes have about 25 days of Battery Power left. The devices and the wreckage will be key to determining the cause of the crash. 90 ships and aircraft were involved in this search. Right now more vessels are expected to arrive by tomorrow and among them a ship from singapore with enhanced underwater detection, as well as another u. S. Ship. Searchers have yet to recover the bodies of 153 victims from the airasia disaster and while the recovery effort continues, forensic teams work to identify the remains that have been found. Cnns Andrew Stevens is joining us live from surabaya indonesia. Tell us about this process, andrew, of identifying these bodies to make sure that families can properly put their loved ones to rest. Yeah its a painstaking process brianna. Families are being asked to provide photographs, obviously, different types of photographs, too, of their family members. Theyve been asked to identify or send in any information on identifiable marks on the bodies, jewelry they may have been wearing, and also something which they could match in dna samples, as well. If you consider the bodies will have been in the water already several days and the decomposition would already have begun, so facial recognition is not going to be easy anymore, and the authorities are making a point of it to make sure they get it absolutely right, because they do not want any mixups with misidentification. Were here at the Police Hospital in downtown surabaya. The Crisis Center has been moved from the airport in the past 24 hours to come down here so that families can be closer to the identification zone. Obviously you can imagine what its like here when bodies are being brought in. So far at surabaya weve only had eight bodies and it does that speaks volumes about the difficulty the searchers are having in locating the fuselage main fuselage where they think most of the passengers are still contained in and it adds up to a very very long and slow and painful process for the families of the victims. What is since experts do think that most of the bodies will still be inside of that main wreckage there have been some conflicting accounts though, about whether sonar has detected the main part of the plane. Whats the latest on that . Yeah, it is conflicting, and it of course adds to the pain so the families think we may get some closure sooner because were getting reports that the main body of the plane is being found. Tony fernandez, boss of airasia saying he hoped the information that the plane being located was right because its so important to find that plane, but nothing since. And the rescue officials weve been speaking to search officials weve been speaking to excuse me are saying no we havent actually pinpointed it yet because, again, the seas are so rough, its very difficult to get the acoustic listing devices towed along the ships to get them into the water and functioning properly, and, of course, you need divers as well. Divers actually eyes on the wreckage, all we know really is there were a large shadow they call it a shadow seen underwater, this is a few days ago now. They think they may have got a couple of echoes of where it is again, but we still have not heard anything concrete about whether its actually been identified, but certainly, if it had been identified we would know by now, brianna, because this is such a critical part of this whole mystery. You get to that main fuselage probably going to also find the black boxes, the rear of the plane, you know find the voice recorders and the cockpits and thats when you start piecing together this whole tragedy. Thats right. So important. Andrew stevens, thank you, from surabaya live for us. I want to get more now on what evidence is telling us so far and what effect the weather could have played in this tragedy. Joining me now, cnn aviation analyst david soucie and on the phone we have an aviation analyst, as well as a former pilot. The Sydney Morning Herald reporting now supposedly leaked information about the plane, saying flight 8501 was traveling at a ground speed of around 75 Miles Per Hour in its descent and before that was climbing at a rate of 6,000 to 9,000 feet per second. To you first, what do those numbers tell you if they are true . Well first of all, i think the 6,000 to 9,000 feet would probably be per minute rather than per second. Yeah. An aircraft an aircraft at that altitude cant climb at that sort of rate. The only way any rate of climb of that nature could have happened would have been through an updraft in a severe thunderstorm. And even that is you know an extreme figure. The figure that you gave 70 miles an hour, 63 knots, would have been a forward ground speed. Thats below the normal flying speed of an airline, it suggests that the aircraft is stalled and was literally falling basically down. So those are the interpretations you can give to those figures as far as i can see. It is entirely possible that the flight crew were trying to regain control of this aircraft but with that sort of forward speed this aircraft their controlling achieved very little indeed, so the aircraft is only going one way, and that was down. But david, these numbers that are talking and that was per minute, pardon me on saying per second, 6,000 to 9,000 feet per minute. The climb, that was the initial part of this data is that possible . Its certainly possible. In fact ive investigated one accident in which these numbers are almost eerily comparable over colorado on monarch pass in which the aircraft had climbed at least those rates and back to alistairs point on the air speed hes correct the airplane couldnt maintain flight at that speed however, what was the situation in this one that id investigated was the headwinds were such that coming out of a huge thunderstorm similar to this over the rockies, that the aircraft had sped up to incredible speeds and then slowed to very very very slow speeds, ground speed, but the air speed of the aircraft was still very high. With a forward headwind you could show 64 knots with a 200knot headwind which is what this was the case. It could be actually a relative speed of over 200 miles an hour in which case it could sustain flight, so while these facts and figures can put us in places if we assume a theory in the first place, it makes sense, but we have to make sure were considering everything and we certainly dont have everything at our disposal. So that ground speed of 63 knots is a net speed. Its not necessarily the actual speed the plane was going. Important to note. Alistair, if the plane was truly in a nose dive of sorts, what would have happened then on impact . Would the plane have broken apart could it have gone into the water with the fuselage pretty much impact . Two things here if the aircraft wasnt in nose dive it would have that could explain a very low forward ground speed, but as the other gentleman mentioned in the case a high air speed, in which case the airplane wouldnt have been flyable, but if the airplane goes into the sea, its going to break up. Theres no question about that. So you know what were talking about here are the violent winds you get inside a thunderstorm these are vertical winds, upwards and downwards rather than the typical jet stream where you could get 100 or even 200 knots over the pacific. But there were no very strong horizontal winds in this area so when you fly into this sort of extreme weather, you will get strange readings on the aircraft and readings transmitted to air Traffic Control through the transponder system, but, you know, were second guessing here. When they get the black boxes, as they are so called theyll be able to recreate a profile of the aircraft in a simulator and see exactly what happened to that aircraft but it does seem to be Severe Weather event at this point in time. So to that point, david, if this is a Severe Weather event, lets think of this in terms of if it were an american flight. Do you think that this plane would have been where it was . Do you think that perhaps it could have been cancelled or it could have been rerouted if it had been an american flight . Well i suppose it could have been whether it should have been or was or wasnt is the pilots decision. So what that brings it into is the realm of judgment by the pilot although in the United States it would be dispatchs decision, decision made by dispatch, anticipating the weather they have much more Information Available to them than does the pilot, so an american airline, the airlines have a lot more information, i would guess. Im not familiar with airasia as far as what their capabilities were on the ground but remember this is a very very dynamic weather area and it can change within 15 or 20 minutes you can go from just a rainstorm to an incredibly intense thunderstorm and i think thats what happened here in my estimation. Yeah was there hail was there severe hail thats one of the questions out there, too. David soucie alistair thank you to both of you, well have chad myers talking more about the Severe Weather event coming up. Later, what it takes to recover a plane like airasia 8501. And we want to hear from you, youve had many questions, use the 8501qs on twitter and well have our experts answer your questions. Next the latest on weather conditions in the area where recovery teams are looking for victims and evidence from the crash. Cholesterol. New ensure active heart Health Supports your heart and body so you stay active and strong. Ensure, take life in. Waves as high as 13 feet fuelled by strong winds and heavy rain extremely challenging conditions for a search and recovery mission. This is exactly what crews are dealing with as they try to find and recover victims from the airasia crash. Chad myers joining us now, hes joining us from the cnn Severe Weather center. You have severe storms here chad these were an issue the day the plane crashed, now there are reports that this plane made an extremely dramatic assent then fell nearly straight down that seems to be what the data indicates if true. If thats verified z it back up speculation of a weather event that led to or contributed to this crash . The unusual part is yes, the more unusual part is that the pilot got the plane in that either he couldnt see the updraft the updraft was in between two storms so he was seeing returns reflectiveity, a lot of turbulence when you get bumps and its clear outside, could be in between two storms seeing two rain shafts and tries to go through them and in the middle is an updraft. Even that 6,000, 9,000 feet per minute is somewhere in the neighborhood of about 60 to 100 Miles Per Hour. If you have a thunderstorm over oklahoma and it makes golf ballsized hail in order to support that and make that hail, it must have an updraft of 60 Miles Per Hour. Baseball sized or bigger has to have 100 Miles Per Hour updraft. Those are the exact same numbers and we get that weather all the time so this isnt some unique never happened before thunderstorm. The unique, unfortunate part is that the plane got into this updraft and thats why in america we fly around the big storms. The pilot obviously either didnt have a choice didnt see it and we saw the wall the wall of storms that he was flying into he thought maybe he had some place to get through as he was in jail trying to get through one of the bars, but at this point in time we know he got into one of those updrafts otherwise the plane couldnt do what it did, couldnt get 6,000, 9,000 feet higher in that minute, because the plane doesnt have that much power. Exactly. Very good point, chad. So youve got the weather now that these search crews are dealing with really hampering the efforts here to retrieve victims and the black boxes. When will they get some clear weather . They will not. Its never going to get perfect. Its never going to be a calm sea. Inside this data that we got from the Sydney Morning Herald they got leaked to them that we have not independently confirmed we are now down the latitude and longitude of that plane is down to onehalf of one second you know degrees, minutes, seconds, so the last location is right there. You can find the numbers online they are not hard to find. The plane being right there, the winds have pushed some of the debris into this area right through here because the winds have been coming from the same direction for days and days and days. What also has happened is at night when the sky gets dark the skies clear up. In the daytime the skies again get cloudy with rain. Heres tomorrow morning, heres tomorrow night, the clouds go away heres tomorrow morning, the next morning, clouds and the rain comes back in. What hasnt gone away the entire time have been the winds. The winds with these waves, ten, 12 feet high even right now, 25 Miles Per Hour tomorrow up to 35 miles per j6bhour. And then 25 Miles Per Hour again. So this is the weather that they are dealing with and they have white caps on top of high waves and looking for white pieces of an airplane and it just makes things completely impossible out there. If you cant get air assets in because the clouds are so low or rain is too heavy, that really limits your visibility. 35 mile per hour winds, wow, they are definitely dealing with tough conditions there. Chad thank you so much keeping an eye on that. Still ahead, captain sully sulenburger compares the conditions he faced landing on the hudson river with the conditions faced by the pilot of airasia 8501. Next whats happening at the hospital where those that were killed in this airasia crash are being taken. Man youre not coming. I took mucinex to help get rid of my mucusy congestion. Mr. Mucus oh, right then ill swing by in like 4 hours. 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Stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. Ask your doctor about viagra. As victims are recovered from the wreckage of flight 8501 they are being taken to a hospital in indonesia. The staff there charged with the difficult and grim task of identifying the bodies. All the while trying to bring dignity to the deceased and closure to grieving families. Paula hancocks has more. Reporter sirens in the night announce their arrival. Victims of flight 8501 on dry land and rushed into this hospital. The next morning two more bodies arrive. Workers take them to a private wing to be prepared for the next spot identification by distraught families. The hospital director says hes here 24 hours a day to give the decease the respect they deserve. Because theyve been in the water some days, he tells me, the bodies are swollen, but otherwise they are intact. Patients look on somberly, their own ailments forgotten in the face of such tragedy. Coffins are being delivered to give dignity to those who lost their lives so suddenly. This hospital has never had to deal with a tragedy on this scale before. They have about two dozen caskets at the moment, they are being built as we speak. The hospital director says they will have 162, one for every victim of this crash. A final prayer for each soul, leaders of six different religions take their turn. The victims religion may not be known, but customs must still be observed. Their time on earth is over, says this pastor, so many of our prayers are for the family. We ask god to receive their bodies and give the families strength. One step closer to their final resting place. So few victims have been found and treated, so many more still wait to be pulled from their watery graves. Paula hancocks, cnn, indonesia. We have much more coverage of airasia flight 8501 ahead, including the look at the challenges of recovering pieces of a plane from the ocean floor. Also ahead, well have the answers to your questions about the crash. Just post them on twitter, use the 8501 qs and well put them to a panel of experts who will join us with answers ahead. Welcome back to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im Brianna Keilar in for wolf blitzer reporting from washington. Searching for bodies and wreckage, heres the latest now, searchers have recovered the bodies of nine people. The body of a woman was identified and returned to her family for burial. Its the first of the funerals for the crash victims. A search official says the pingers that help locate the planes black boxes have about 25 days of Battery Power left. The flight data and cockpit voice recorders could be key in determining the cause of this crash. Search crews have recovered more debris from the plane, but they are still trying to pinpoint the location of the main wreckage. And so many factors are complicating the search for more bodies and wreckage from the airasia plane, weather among them some bodies and debris have been found, but not the exact location of the aircraft. When searchers find the plane, thats when the real work begins, bringing it to the surface. Joe johns joining us now to talk about this we know that its been done before joe, but under these conditions . Yeah its really tough. You know, theres so much involved in this right now, brianna a couple u. S. Navy ships could be involved poseidon aircraft, and thats just the start of it. An enormous job. It can take a long time. They have to map out where the pieces of the plane are, then the heavy lifting beginning. How do you pull a plane up from the bottom of the ocean .