another perhaps crucial day of searching for the missing asian eric flight number 8501. the aircraft took off from the nodan city of surabaya heading to singapore. the 162 onboard, mostly indonesian and british and french. apparently the pilots were encountering bad weather requesting the plane fly higher but due to other aircraft there ground control for that moment denied and it that might have made the difference. soon after radio and radar loss was lost. there was no may day call. authorities now saying the plane could be on the bottom of the sea there are dozens of ships and aircraft from several different countries in the recent john involved in the search for the plane. they're checking out oil and other debris found on the water. also asking for u.s. assistance and the u.s. today has said yes, it will help, and the late word we're getting from the pentagon it could include planes ships, maybe even