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>> even though the plane's flight recorders have not yet been recovered, there are a lot of theories out there. cnn spoke with an aviation expert about what might have gone wrong. >> reporter: when an airplane flips or stalls it could be catastrophic. >> once are you in unrecoverable stall, what happens? >> there are various types of stalls. for the most part you are going to see more or less a flat situation. because the pilots will try to control it. it will just it will almost be like a leaf. >> how is that possible? >> well it's possible because they got to is up a slow air speed. >> repor...

Wings and less on the top. this is the relative wind the steep of the angle of attack occurs the more likely you will get a stall. >> reporter: in the case of 8501 already a possible critical information, air traffic control data showing the a 320 ascending shortly before radar. >> it's disturbing to me an attempt was paid at least so far, we haven't verified it with data that he was avoiding weatherly going up. that's not something you'd rather like to do you like to go left to right. >> reporter: air france in 2009 was flying from rio to paris in a powerful storm. ice formed on the plane's e...

Exactly right. behind me is the crisis center i counted some 100 families eating dinner talking to counsellors. there are a bunch of notes on a bulletin board on each and every person on that plane and also 15 names of no shows, people who never showed up and their names are there, too. i look at those names and think those are the luckiest people on planet either right now they missed that flight. most of them come to terms with the fact that their loved ones have passed away in this terrible tragic accident on sunday. they want the bodies back. seven bodies have been recovered. five are curr...

Ladies one uniform, in the cases of the fuselage and the rest of the passengers i expect to be strapped in. and it still doesn't tell us a lot about whether the plane broke up in flight. when i say broke up a horizontal stabilizeer or a vertical stabilizeer coming away in the flight or even the wings, highly unlikely. but i think most of the damage would have been done when it impacted the water and as we found with air france 447, the airplane fractured in a number of places when it hit the water in 2009 and then of course we don't know whether it's right way up or upsidedown but that may not...

>> this is where the sit-in has grown, calling for more democracy in hong kong. >> this is the first time the papal plane has been allowed to enter chinese airspace. >> an incredible year. it was ending on a very sad note because the news right now, the families of 155 people still at the bottom of the java sea. they are going through a very difficult process of having to identify those bodies. it is believed many are still strapped into the fuselage of that plane. as we have seen already, they are slowly being brought back to land. we reported a few moments ago, there is this very dignified