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Effects and what looks like part of a food cart. >> translator: we retrieved during our one-week operation several objects which were mostly parts of the airasia plane. >> reporter: the main body of the plane and the critical flight recorders still on the sea floor. 16-foot waves and muddy conditions under water mean zero visibility. more than 50 vessels and helicopters an more than 80 deep divers are dedicated to the search. china has sent experts and portable sonar equipment. the "uss sampson" is helping recover debris while the "uss fort worth" deployed sonar equipment. >> we can find thing...

Morning. lost contact with the control tower 42 minutes later. it is believed it hit bad weather and crashed into the java sea. we don't know the cause of the crash, obviously we are waiting to find the black boxes that have the vital information. as you say, there have been in pings or signals detected from the flight recorders. so the search continues. in the meantime the families they are desperately waiting for news. obviously those three other bodies found this afternoon, two males and one female they are taken to the recovery center and flown here to surabaya where they are then identifi...

Plane is found in that mud, if that is where it is, in fact they will have great difficulty to get it out. it will delay the process. we are talking about weeks, if not months before they are able to get it. that is when they find it. we are talking about an area huge area that has been expanded and they currently scouring it with the international efforts. the united states is part of the operation to try to locate the debris. the bodies and, of course the black box flight recorders, christine. >> many of our aviation experts said that part of the ocean and sea relatively shallow. there will ...

Identified. the lab will take care of that but the other part is the debris lab. what's going to be happening there is that all the wreckage that is found at sea is going to be brought to this laboratory parts of the plane are going to be rebuilt. they're going to try to reconstruct the plane and figure out exactly what took this plane down and, of course that critical element of the debris lab will be recovering the so-called black boxes, the flight data recorder the cockpit voice recorders. that wolf will be the key that investigators are hoping will tell them what brought this plane down wh...

With indonesia's navy chief revising the search area eastward choppy seas proving difficult for the divers. we are covering all angles of the story. let's go straight to anna coren live on the ground in indonesia. good morning, na. >> reporter: hello, john. search and recovery teams working against the clock to find the bodies of those on board the ill-fated airasia flight that crashed nine days ago. those bodies decomposing in the warm waters of the java sea. the search has been postponed for the day due to bad weather. it is feared it could take weeks if not longer to find the bodies. the wr...