Tell us more about the cause have not been found yet but bad weather does appear to be partly to blame for the crash. Reporter the search for bodies was overshadowed today by the discovery of four large pieces of wreckage. Officials said they were sure the pieces were from the plane. The survey vessel measured one object as being about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide. Depending on what they are, it could be the first breakthrough in the hunt for the vital black boxes. In Shallow Water like the java sea, detection signals emitted by the boxes can be hard to find, according to air safety investigators. The single from the pinger, which is only this size. Reporter having a lot of ships in the area is not necessarily useful to you. Exactly exactly. In some cases its also even disturbing. So thats why they are dispatching very carefully who is eligible to go to the site, who is not. Reporter among those eligible are two American Navy ships. The uss sampson is searching in what is described as
Hooked on music. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. The four objects found on the floor of the java sea are described as massive and unmistakable. The wreckage, according to the indonesian government, of air asia flight 8501, the flight disappeared a week ago with 162 people on board heading from surabaya indonesias second largest city, to singapore. Tonight all air asia flights flying that same route have been grounded with the indonesian transport minister saying the airline did not have permission to fly that route on the day of the crash. As allen pizzey reports, the planes black boxes that will tell us more about the cause have not been found yet but bad weather does appear to be partly to blame for the crash. Reporter the search for bodies was overshadowed today by the discovery of four large pieces of wreckage. Officials said they were sure the pieces were from the plane. The survey vessel measured one object as being
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. This is our western edition. And this is the western edition of our broadcast. The four objects found on the floor of the java sea are described as massive and unmistakable. The wreckage, according to the indonesian government, of air asia flight 8501, the flight disappeared a week ago with 162 people on board heading from surabaya, indonesias second largest city, to singapore. Tonight, all air asia flights flying that same route have been grounded with the indonesian transport minister saying the airline did not have permission to fly that route on the day of the crash. As allen pizzey reports, the planes black boxes that will tell us more about the cause have not been found yet, but bad weather does appear to be partly to blame for the crash. Reporter the search for bodies was overshadowed today by the discovery of four large pieces of wreckage. Officials said they were sure the pieces wer