listen to this. a 7-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash. he was able to walk. walk to a house near the crash site. and that resident called 911. the twin-engine aircraft went down last night after the pilot reported engine problems. the faa and the ntsb are expected to arrive. those who died include a 9-year-old girl. her parents and a 14-year-old cousin. we ll have more on that later in the hour. the latest for the search for victims and wreckage and the cause of airasia 8501. teams equipped with a remote operated vehicle are battling high waves, strong currents as well. as they try to get images of the two pieces of metal debris that have just been found in the java sea. we re also learning that airasia did not have permission to fly from surabaya to singapore on
that plane. right, right. all the way to the house. it s just remarkable. thank you. appreciate it. ahead, the grim task of identifying the victims of flight 8501 and how more time under water as these crews continue to search. how that time under water could make the task more difficult. so how s your credit? a loan? i know i have an 810 fico score, thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. and your big idea is hot dogs shaped like hamburgers? nope. hamburgers shaped like hot dogs. that s not really in our wheelhouse. you don t put it in a wheelhouse. you put it in your mouth. get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. [ male announcer ] diagnosed with cancer, he didn t just vow to beat it. i vowed to eradicate it from the earth. so he founded huntsman cancer institute.
that flight went missing. they are licensed to fly four days a week but sunday is not one of them. this is actually what the indonesian transport ministry said. the flight of indonesia air asia route surabaya singapore was operated outside the permitted license, this is a violation against the agreement of the route provider. they have launched an investigation, they are looking at the operations of airasia indonesia, also looking at why this plane was allowed to fly if it wasn t permitted to fly. what was going on at surabaya to allow to the fly and looking at the director general of transports own department to find out, again, why this plane could fly if it didn t have the correct paperwork. the ramifications of this are still unclear, christi, but if you look at it and the people i ve been speaking to, it does carry a certain legal implications but also insurance implications, would this plane have been insured if it wasn t
your brother, david, his wife and two young children were on that flight. i just want to stop and ask you do you hold out any hope at all? yeah, for sure. i still hope. there s nothing to do here, only hope. and pray. reporter: you come down here every day and just wait? yes, yes. i do come here and wait. nothing else. reporter: and what are they telling you every day? are you getting the information you need? not really. we re hoping they have update every day, three times they promise us, but 9:00, 1:00 and 5:00, maybe 7:00. but here, there s nothing else. reporter: you don t do you think they just don t know the information? maybe yes and maybe no.
too, andrew, about this. before in the wall street journal, that this flight wasn t even permitted to take that route on that very day. what do you know about that? yeah, that s right. airasia indonesian, that is the subsidiary of that plane was not authorized to fly that plane between surabaya and singapore. it is approved but only four days a wakeek. the ministry said it s going to investigate the airport authority itself to find out why that plane could take off without approval. and it s also investigating the department of transportation. that the director general s department within that. so it s a wide-ranging investigation. what we ve heard from airasia indonesia so far, christi, is they say they re going to help with the investigation and not