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"jumbo boeing 747." what do you see as the most important similarities? ? >> the first thing is how quickly these things can happen. we must be very careful not to make too much of the fragmented information we have at the moment. there are certain similarities. this thing happened very quickly. we know because of the gap, short gap between when crew asked for permission to climb and when the controllers got back to them. some two minutes or so. by that time the crew was unable to communicate. in the case of flight 447, it was a larger aircraft and it was 4 1/2 minutes when they had that first...

When we talk about the bad weather hampering the search for air asia flight 8501 important to note it's monsoon season in the java sea. gale force winds making it nearly impossible for those search helicopters to fly. there's driving rain that cuts visibility and the high waves in the java sea are making it difficult for ships. joining me now cnn meteorologist tom sadder. today's search which has come and gone had to be called off because of the weather. any reprieve in sight? >> there's so many elements. you got low visibility even if it's not raining. after a heavy rainfall there's a sea fog...

While investigators zero in on what may have caused the crash of air asia flight 8501 we're learning more about some of the 162 people on board. one of them the captain a former fighter jet pilot who recently celebrated his 53rd birthday and this was the second recent tragedy for the family. the pilot's younger brother died just days ago from diabetes. family and friends shared their thoughts and their grief with cnn gary tuckman who is there in indonesia. >> reporter: this is what it looks like today in the home of the captain of air asia flight 8501. this is the captain's 24-year-old daughte...

Metal and two black bags some of the latest items recovered from air asia flight 8501. debris with another body on a ship being brought in for identification a process that begun with the positive identification of a woman, a teacher. now searchers have recovered nine bodies total, but rough seas and waves has high as 10 to 13 feet are once again hampering the effort to recover more victims and those black boxes. when searchers finally do find and recover air asia flight 8501 what secrets will the wreckage will hold. >> reporter: what you see around here is a safety system that has failed. >> ...

Plane ascended steeply to an altitude beyond its envelope as well. its service ceiling and then later dove at a rate that was apparently physically impossible. so again, i said this a whole bunch of times today, but this is early. we're getting reports -- >> you don't want to speculate too far ahead. >> exactly. >> remember this protection that you're talking about was primarily designed to protect the airplane or the whole flight from a landing or a takeoff situation if it's a stall, you know with flaps out and so on. primarily the thinking behind the engineers on that as opposed to crews. >>...