engine, slows the plane down. did all of that go well? if there was a problem with braking or problem with the thrust reversers, it s possible the plane could do a fishtail. in fact what happens to have happened the plane did fishtail hang a left and into the embankment. thankfully that was there. that s what investigators are trying to find out answer to these series of questions you raised? that s right. they ll recover both the flight data recorder and cockpit recorder, and that will give them that much information, we presume. how much of an icing condition. two previous pilots lit really four to five minutes before this plane landed said they had good braking conditions. in fact the runway had been plowed about 20 30 minutes prior to this incident. however this went down they were incredibly lucky. as you know it was about 23 years ago there was a fatal plane crash, a plane taking off in a snowstorm at laguardia, and
we believe the same divers that entered the water this morning, this tail was found in the secondary search area. now, we don t know the depth at what the plane tail was found at. we don t know also whether it was pings that led the searchers to this specific location. the head of the agency refusing to comment on those specifics. but certainly a major break through because as we know with this airbus a-320, this specific plane, the black boxes, the two black boxes, the flight data recorder and cockpit recorder are both located in the tail of the plane. they hold the answers as to what exactly happened to this flight when it departed. on the 28th of december off to singapore. about 42 minutes into the flight it just disappeared from
the wreckage of the flight. david, another setback is there are no pings being detected from those flight data recorders. that s such a vital piece of the puzzle here. bring us up to speed on that and also the fact that the u.s. has their assets there aiding in the search as well as other nations. absolutely john and michaela. a very important part of the search and the investigation as well. tomorrow s going to be tuesday, in just a few hours, actually. it will be day ten of the search-and-rescue effort. ten days since the plane went down. the batteries on the black boxes, the cockpit recorder and flight data recorder, the batteries on the pingers only register to last for about a month. so that s about 20 days left. it s not yet a race against the clock to listen for them. we know from search-and-rescue officials that they have been sending ships with equipment, underwater microphones, to
flight data recorder the voice recorder the cockpit recorder apparently located on that tail? sure. it would be fantastic. but we begin every day with some encouragement. we end every day with so much uncertainty. it s a bad pattern. the thing that worries me is that a calmer surface means we can get people in and out of the water a little bit easier and safer and hold position easier. but the visibility if we re waiting for that to improve, it could be weeks or a month before the monsoonal visibility is better at that depth. what worries a lot of people david, the rear admiral said they haven t heard any pings at all yet. how worried should we be that no pings have been detected? i don t know about worried. but if we have to rely on visual that s why those black boxes are painted orange, so you can see them visually. then we re in serious trouble for the time being. if the pings are working, they have enough assets out there, it
you. whenever there is a crash, despite 2014 crashes are quite rare. the aviation industry learns so much to make sure it never happens again. this incident with this news means the conspiracy theories can be put to rest like you heard from mh-370. and the cockpit recorder and data recorders, they hope to get the information they need to find out exactly what happened here. to suggest what happened here in air france 447 and they need fixes. desmond ross thank you. the debris from the airasia flight 8501 has been found here. investigators are 95% certain they found the vanished jetliner. will they find the bulk of the plane and what about underwater vehicles? are those needed? that s after the break.