his country. we begin this hour with the search for wreckage and victims from the crash of airasia flight 8501. officials in indonesia believe they have found a big chunk of it. sonar pinpointing four massive objects on the bottom of the ocean. crews are working in awful weather right now. divers can t even get to the bottom to see it. only a few dozen bodies now recovered nearly a week after the plane first went missing. david has the latest from bangkok and joins us now with more details. reporter: hi, kelly yes indonesia officials say search teams have found what they describe as four large objects on the ocean floor and seem confident these are parts of the missing airasia plane. translator: we found using our geo survey ship, the ability to find objects under water,
water. they ve been trying to operate remotely operated cameras under water to get a better look. these were spotted by sonar. it s not clear which part of the plane they ve come from. one of the objects is 30 feet long and 15 feet wide. the head of indonesia s search and rescue said he s confident all four of these objects did in fact come from the airasia plane. meantime, searchers brought more bodies to shore today. however, they did not recover any bodies. the toll stands at 30 at this point, 30 bodies recovered with four bodies identified. one of those was a flight attendant who worked for airasia for just under two years. tony fernandez, the founder of airasia, attended her funeral late friday. at the same time his airline is coming under scrutiny now. indonesian officials have grounded all airasia flights from surabaya to singapore and back indefinitely while they look into some sort of permitting problem. airasia says they re aware of
released early this morning. absolutely heartbreaking and also inspiring, your heart goes out to the little girl, of course. thank you, will. no doubt. well, there s stunning new developments in the crash of 8501. indonesian officials now saying airasia did not have permission to fly the route last sunday before it vanished from radar and crashed into the java sea. meanwhile the search for victims and wreckage continues. recovery teams may have found four large objects in the floor of the java sea the largest of which appears to be part of the plane s fuselage. david piper is live in bangkok with more. reporter: hi, arthel, indonesian officials say search teams using sonar found the four large objects on the ocean floor and they seem confident that they are part of that missing airasia plane. recovery teams are planning to send down a remotely operated under water vehicle to take pictures of the objects which
into small modular people and rapidly shipped around the world. earlier this year, the blue fin 21 spent three weeks searching for malaysia airlines flight an 11 million dollar effort. now a recovery effort bluefin could help with is under way. would your vehicle with good to use in the airasia crash? it can be employed in that if need be our vehicles could map a debris field and help collect faster response time. the wreckage of flight 8501 has been found but the debris could be scattered across the ocean floor. it s the type of mission that s helped increase bluefin s business by 15% this year. and in the case of the airasia plane, their auvs could once again been o on the front line.
well there s a couple of things it could say, but what it doesn t say is the answer that we re kind of looking for now, did it break up in flight or did it break up when it hit the water. so either one of those investigators will see that they ll find bodies in that condition, in either of those scenarios. so it really doesn t tell us a lot about what happened to the aircraft other than it does tell us that they weren t exiting the aircraft like there wasn t an egress attempt like we the suspected earlier. could it also tell us because of the weather that the plane under the water is coming apart and the bodies are getting out? i would not say that. dave can back me up here on this but it s probably this happened on the initial wreckage of athe plane, breaking apart and floating up is very difficult and very heavy down there, very hard to do that. now the oil for another, that could be fuel come outing out of the