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There has been heavy rain at the site of the crash and in the nearby locations. there has been high waves and also high winds. that makes it very difficult for the divers with little visibility but also for the ships and the aerial support to be able to do their job. the fear at this point is that that bad weather could continue for the next couple of days making what is already an agonizing wait for those families even worse. paula hancocks cnn, on the west coast of borneo. for more on the efforts to find the rest of the plane and the victims, i m joined now by the wall street journal s science correspondent andy paster we have cnn analyst david soucie and aviation analyst peter goelz. there are seven bodies that have been found. this is not very many bodies found over the last couple of days of searches. does it tell you anything or are expecteding more will be found? you would hope they would find more bodies during the next day or two. ....
The only thing this could do if you could identify where these vicks were seated on the plane, where the flight attendant what station was she assigned to it might give you some indication of how the plane separated, how the plane broke up. but it s really very preliminary. we re in for a little bit of a long haul. you think we ll find that information out or we may not hear soon? it s going to take finding the black boxes for us to get that information finally. andy the wall street journal reporting that indonesia said sonar shows the plane was upside down. why would this be significant? it could be significant depending on the angle of the plane going into the water. but i think it would be good to step back a little bit and talk about the whole system of aviation the dispatchers, the regulators and as sad as it is for the families and to look at what this pilot may have done ....
Misinformation as both andy and david will confirm. there s always misinformation during the early stages of an accident. and we re still in the early stages. and you need to be very careful. people want to give good news out. they want to see things that tend to be positive. you have to take it with a grain of salt. you have to be careful. you have to be verify verify the information. and i think andy s right. the whole issue of dispatch is a critical one. there were planes taking off before and after this plane that were flying a very similar route. and we need to know whether the dispatch system in that part of the world really takes into account the challenges of the weather. especially with the growth that we re seeing of air travel in that area. andy, there is new and improved gps technology. this is already out there. it hasn t been implemented. ....
Going on there that we could talk about for a long time. but a doctor i interviewed up in montreal said that prior to his regime, the president had gone down to indonesia to try to make sure that they were complying with these standards and practices and the annexes within the system. it s important to remember too, it is a continuous improvement program and they re very good at learning more. but there is room for improvement certainly. certainly something to and you re nodding as well, peter. clearly something to be learned from this, as you said, andy. i wonder peter, there are a lot of i guess, criticisms of the malaysian airline search from the march crash this year. do you think because of that you have officials being more cautious about whether the plane has been found? we re hearing these conflicting reports about it. the ceo saying no we haven t necessarily found it. i think there s always ....
And flew eastest west or southwest into the indian ocean, before likely crashing into the sea that. is one item. the second one ties in additional details of how the jet was flying. malaysian military radar showing the plane climbing to 45,000 feet soon after disappearing from civilian radar screens, then reportedly desends to 23,000 feet, then climbs again as it heads into the indian ocean. there are doubts which such drastic changes are possible. the new york times citing american officials and others saying the plane also altered course more than once as if still under the command of someone. the obvious question is who and why? item three in the new reporting is from andy paster, suggesting the presence of at least two bad actors, one to turn the plane, another to disable some of the electronics. he joins us shortly. first i want to go to pentagon ....