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And are grieving the loss of marty and kim and piper and sierra as well. and this is just -- this is a blow to us. >> and, i mean have they already made plans for the funerals yet? >> reporter: yeah. anderson, they're planning that. sierra wilder's services will be held on wednesday. and the service for piper, kimberly and martin marty, they should all be held on friday but important to note anderson the family is expecting these to be private services. >> george howell appreciate that. i talked to sierra's mom in the last hour sierra was 14. she died on that flight as well. her mom describe...

Would like to do. we would like to go left or right. >> flight 447 in 2009 was flying from rio to paris in a powerful storm. ice formed on the tubes on the plane's exterior. the tubes deliver critical information to the plane's computers. pilots had con feuding signals as to what was happening in the plane. >> they were getting horns and siren, readouts on their displays and they were trying to determine what was happening with the airplane. >> the pilot increased power and climbed, pushing the airplane into a catastrophic stall. the flight voice recorder captured the confusion in the cockpit....

Search efforts for air flight france 447 which disappeared in the atlantic. all that aside, weather has been the main focus here. because the pilots relatively experienced the aircraft itself relatively new t. airline with a flewless safety weather t. pilot said they were concerned about the weather. do you see a comparison between this flight and what you studied in air france flight 447? >> sure absolutely. in many ways it's the same situation. they were approaching in fact the same tuned i kind of intertropical convergence cell. in the case of air france 447, they did get icing and the pilo...

Like to be in their shoes. as we mentioned the search so far has been hampered by bad weather the same kind of weather that's believed to have been at least a factor if not the primary cause of flight 8501's disappearance. but there are other factors to consider. let's talk more about them. jeff i want to start with you and the flight itself no may day call reported. i want you to pull back the curtain for us if you can on what it's like to be a pilot in an emergency situation and what are the steps you have to go through from first priority to the last and that might explain why we didn't h...

Former inspector general, jeffwise and a new york-based psychology journalist and kristene denverson is an underwater search expert. mary we have heard all day long a lot of people comparing this to what happened to airfrance, flight 447, flying from brazil to paris. are those fair comparisons, given the limitations on what we know right now? >> well, i think they're fair comparisons when you look at just what we know. the initial reports from airfrance 447 sounded like this. and when you start any investigation, no matter what it is investigation of a crime, investigation of an air accident y...