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Aircraft and the debris also includes a plane door and oxygen tanks, luggage and life vests also visible. a spokesman for indonesian's navy says 40 bodies have been recovered. crews and ropes are being lowered into the sea for search for additional victims. loved ones of passengers broke down in tears at the airport as their worst fears appear to become a reality. one middle-aged man collapsed while watching the news reports and was taken out on a stretcher. the airbus passenger jet with 162 people on board was heading from surabaya to singapore when it lost contact with air traffic control. t...

Been found in the java sea. a spokesman for indonesia says bodies have been recovered. the debris includes red and white materials, the colors of that missing aircraft including a plane door and oxygen tanks. >> here with us now from miami, ceo of publisher of foreign policy magazine david rothgoth and foreign affairs correspondent mikie kay, who has logged 3,000 hours of flying helicopters and jets. let's start with you. we asked this question earlier of greg feith. what's your instinct right now about what happened here? >> well i think what voices are reporting at the moment is a number of ...

Type of aircraft. that's not the first thing i would suspect on this accident. >> david, when will an underwater search begin? at what point does that happen? >> well maybe if they've got a decent last known position you start right away trying to hear the pingers on the black boxes. maybe they've put buoys in the water to look for drift around that area. so we can backtrack any kind of debris we might find in the days to come. but if there's equipment available and the fact that they're asking the united states halfway around the world kind of says to me there's not a lot of equipment availab...

Finding that? >> it was crucial. there was immediate response by the brazilian navy the french navy, and i believe a few other countries, to the last known position. but it was five days had past before the first piece of debris was found. now, grant it that was in the middle of the atlantic ocean, so it was 1,000 miles plus away from the nearest port. but it was five long days and they kept finding debris for the next couple of weeks. but knowing that there was something that tangible evidence that the plane went down in that area was important because it allowed us to backtrack over the week...

They have signals and they have things to investigate. even more so, they were quite excited about "ocean shield" picking up that last acoustic signal just in the last hour or so. this has moved this investigation into a whole new arena. for days we've been talking about finding debris. while that would have been good, this is much more optimistic, the fact that they have leads from signals to investigate. this does not mean they found the black boxes. they need to work to verify. chief houston also made it clear, don, they are really running up against the clock. it's not to be lost on anyone...