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Searchers thought -- they thought -- they had spotted the plane's tail section which is where those devices are kept. but the official leading the search operation has now ruled that out. no tail section, at least not yet. recovery crews did manage to retrieve two more bodies today, bringing the total number found to 39. the prevailing belief at this point is that most of the other victims are strapped into their seats still in the plane's sunken fuselage wherever that might be. our david molko is in surabaya in indonesia and, david, we are seeing for the first time the u.s. effort to help fin...

We have new video into cnn a short time ago. this is our first look at the american warship the uss "sampson" taking part in the search for airasia flight 8501. bad weather again getting in the way of search operations in the java sea. a new effort to find the crucial black boxes. searchers thought they spotted the plain's tale section where the black boxes reside, in the aircraft but the official leading the search operation has ruled that out. no tail section, at least not yet. recovery crews did manage to retrieve two more bodies today, bringing the total number found to 39. the prevailing ...

The time they locate the fuselage here and specifically toward the tail section. >> do the pingers fade as each day passes? >> well yes but we have in this case a number of passengers we have debris and so we know we here in the right general area and i agree with jeff we have to go upstream and see where the impact was before the currents took the debris down. >> jeff, if those black boxes simply aren't found, will we ever have the answers we need? >> that would be incredible. the black boxes were not found in this crash, that would be astonishing. now, granted, i would have been astonished i...

Reportedly said the tail section might -- we say might have been found. if confirmed, which so far it's not, it would be a major development. because, obviously, the tail is where the airliner's cockpit and flight data recorders are located. the investigation tonight yielding new theories about why the airbus a-320 fell from the sky over a week ago on its way to singapore. what triggered the crash, indonesian officials pointing to engine icing as it flew through brutal weather that's caused so much trouble for recovery crews. kyung lah has the latest. what are you learning? >> reporter: we're ...

And cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes. peter, this report from reuters that the tail section, we have not confirmed this, the tail section may have been found, that would be very very significant. >> that would be. it would mean that the black boxes are not far away. it doesn't disturb me that they haven't heard the pingers yet. sometimes they break loose. sometimes they're buried under debris. if you're not directly over them sometimes you can't hear. if they found the tail section, then it is -- >> how close do you have to be to the black boxes and pingers in order to detect them? >> ...