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Certainly president obama's nominees got through very quickly and without much fuss and bother at all. he had seven or eight on the first day. and got four or five immediately thereafter. i don't think this is anything unusual. so far as president-elect trump holding a news conference the same time the confirmation hearings are going on, i don't understand the problem. if he didn't hold a news conference somebody would make an issue about that. >> martha: in terms of delay, this paperwork issue. these are the kinds of things that can be used to keep pushing this process off and delaying it pas...

>> reporter: ana, the licensing issue, they had a license to fly the route. surabaya to singapore. it only covered four days of the week. sunday wasn't there. the transportation ministry says airasia basically rearranged its schedule. the head of civil aviation saying this we asked the schedule change to fly on sunday it would have been a simple paperwork issue. this investigation is ongoing and what we're hearing from the airport authority is four officers four officers from the airport authority have actually been reassigned during this investigation. these aren't controllers but they're off...

Zero visibility. too dark to see anything. weather is not good to begin with. there were reports from one of the teams they believe they could have spotted the tail today. that hasn't been confirmed by officials. if they did in fact find the tail, that's hopefully where those black boxes are unless the tail broke into pieces on impact. that's where they do find black boxes. there's a hopeful move those will be found soon. as you mentioned over the weekend, there was word that the flight paths from surabaya to singapore was not approved for a sunday. that's correct. it seems took mostly a paper...

Let me bring in my panel, cnn aviation analyst les aubin and also bobby soley, thank you for being here and allen diehl joins us a former ntsb investigator and author of a book "using science to save lives one crash at a time." allen, this plane not licensed to fly on that day said the transport ministry when it flew on sunday. but les and others on the program have been saying look this is more a paperwork issue than a safety concern. do you agree? >> i agree. probably some kind of middle management error, although it does suggest that perhaps we'll have to look very closely at air asia's man...

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