brazil. we know what happened with that accident. the air asia crash that happened just around between christmas and new year s was also an a- a-320. and the french authorities are investigating that. we still don t know what caused that plane to go down although we have some clues in terms of weather and other kinds of things. but it s there s a very good track record. and, again, we have to remind ourselves and the public that aviation is still the safest form of travel as witnessed of the record of not only this airline, but so many others. katie higgins, thank you very much. thank you. the other big story in the news today, a bombshell report in the wall street journal that israel spied on the u.s. to gather intelligence on nuclear talks with iran and then turned around and used that intelligence to engage in a partisan political fight over the potential deal. according to the journal, it was part of the strategy concocted by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as
european american air travel is quite good generally, right? it is very good. we ve had accidents. i mean, airbus air france had a major accident, not in france, but heading towards france from brazil. we know what happened with that accident. the air asia crash that happened just around between christmas and new year s, was also an a-320. and the french authorities are investigating that. we still don t know what caused that plane to go down, although we have some clues in terms of weather and other kinds of things. but it s there s a very good track record. and, again, we have to remind ourselves and the public that aviation is still the safest form of travel, as witnessed of the record of not only this airline, but so many others. katie higgins, thank you very much. thank you. the other big story in the news today, a bombshell report in the wall street journal that israel spied on the u.s. to gather intelligence on nuclear talks with iran and then turned around and u
distress call or indicate in anyway, shape or form a problem with the aircraft. that s very unusual, given the fact that they were 38,000 feet. they would have been in complete communication with air traffic control. reporter: among the scenarios investigators will have to krks was there an emergency that forced the crew to program a rapid descent, a fire or smoke or sudden loss of cabin pressure. if that was the problem the pilots should have levelled the plane out at 20,000 fee. instead, it kept descending. so were the pilots and passengers incapacitated? captain john kax once flew the a-320. something obviously occurred that said as soon as they got to 38,000 within just a few minutes, they needed to come down and xa exactly that is i don t know. reporter: the airbus a-320 is among the world s most heavily used planes more than 6,000 flying a. computerized plane with a very good safety record. but they re having recent high
in all probability may have lost an engine. that gives you a clear may day. then you start running through the check list. if you re single engine over these mountainous areas. by the time he took off, you would have to see how much altitude he could possibly gain. and he losing it at 6,800 feet, in that area, that 30 minutes of decent was filled with check list and trying to maintain altitude. this particular plane should be able to stay aloft on one engine, right? it should be able to stay aloft with one engine. when you re in a mountainous area and you ve got that load of people on board, you may have a problem with your maximum gross weight. and the height of those mountains in that particular area. yes, you could fly it on single engine. this plane wasn t at full capacity. it had nearly 150 passengers on board. it can hold up to 320. that s the a 320. it wouldn t carry 320 people.
navy divers down to identify a piece of wreckage that wasn t happening today. it is hampering the search for bodies as you can imagine. one victim the first to be identified today, a woman. she according to airasia was identified through dna, united with her family here and taken back to her village. after a brief ceremony laid to rest, richard. kelly, as we look at some fuselage you reported on they re hoping that indeed according to tony fernandez what they have seen might be part of that. what about the distances from where the last radar detection was of the a-320? reporter: well there s quite a bit of distance between where