procedures airline dispatchers did or did not follow on the way. in addition two more passengers recovered. total is 39. a lot to cover with our kyung lah and paula. first, kyung, we ll take a look. reporter: the intense search for air asia 8501. 38 ships in the java sea, reality realtime reporting into the command control center. moments after we walk in what s happening? another two bodies. reporter: the plane just spotted two bodies. he won t know for sure until the ship reaches the coordinates and picks them up.
studied and heard all of the information that we re getting about air asia flight 8501 at this point. can you walk us through? i think i want to look at it and walk us through the procedure to deal with this. there is strategic weather avoidance, and tactical weather avoidance. the airline dispatcher who helps the pilots plan the flight would be looking at the best route of flight to avoid weather as much as possible. the piles, once they reviewed the flight information would want to make sure that they can operate the flight safely and then the tactical weather avoidance happens during the flight as they look at weather ahead of them and whether it s visually out the cockpit windows or on the onboard weather radar. the investigators will be
have that much time. this is an area known for thunderstorms. not that infrequent at all. how big would, in your experience would money be. send the planes up anyway in these big storms and didn t offer a large diversion? does that factor in? if we send them too far, this is going to cost more money to get the plane from a to b? i think that we minimize the financial risk often, more often than we d like to admit. it s not unusual for an airline dispatcher to send a crew off or pilots to go off knowing there s bad weather ahead because the weather is so dynamic we can assume that an hour from the time we take off it may completely change by the time we get there. but when you start talking about needing to make, you know 90-degree turns to try to find a way through weather that might take you a hundred miles off course before you can get
it s not unusual for an airline dispatcher to send a crew off or pilots to go off knowing there s bad weather ahead because the weather is so dynamic we can assume that an hour from the time we take off it may completely change by the time we get there. but when you start talking about needing to make, you know 90-degree turns to try to find a way through weather that might take you a hundred miles off course before you can get through it? there comes a point, i think, when the pilots say, look how much time are we going to spend trying to find a better way? scott maybe this one s not so bad. what about these underwater locaters? it s only 150 feet deep we re told, this ocean. well, again because they are underwater makes it more difficult to hear the pinging of this. i mean, with all due respect, isn t that the very purpose of the underwater locater? i mean, this is like the malaysian airlines flight was
miles. this could take, what when you think of all of the planes up in the air, how long could this take to get this straightened out? as you well know, brooke, it s kind of a ballet what happens in the skies all over the world and it doesn t take much of a disruption to have a ripple effect throughout the system. it does help that there aren t as many flights overnight and that will allow the system to sort of absorb it and get people reconfigured and get those airline dispatchers earning their money as they try to match equipment and crew and put them in the right place. give it 24 hours. it will probably get back to normal. so if we hear that a spokesperson has said that any idea their systems was hacked was ruled out, how could they rule that out so fast? they probably want to allay general concerns that might exist over this. they also ruled out a power failure.