it wouldn t be at all surprising if things went so badly over the next two or three years that a larger deployment might be necessary. let me pay a tribute to the sacrifice and men and women in uniform. afghan leaders thank their hosts for their sacrifices. was it worth it? thousands of british servicemen and women and their families certainly hope it was. well coming up on cnn, the latest on the crash of air asia flight 8501. indonesian search teams say they have sonar evidence of the plane s wreckage. narrator: these are the tennis shoes skater kid: whoa narrator: that got torture tested
very rough at times. the surface matters because the surface is where you get your first clues most often. things floating on top of the water may or may not tell you a lot about the cause of the accident, but they are indicators. when you look at the second layer layer, the water column beneath them, and you start reverse erng nearing against all the competing currents below, you can get an estimate on where they came from. and that can lead you to the third layer down here, which is the heavy bits on the bottom. those are the ones you really have to get. what are we talking about in the we re talking about big parts of the plane, parts of the wings and parts of the tail parts of the landing gear the electronics, the flight data record e, the voice recorders, the engines which are each about 9,000 pounds. all of these are critical. if you collect enough of them as they did with twa-800, which was also in about 100 feet of water off the coast of long island you can reassemble the plane
officials here have been talking about, now that it s not a mystery where this plane is that there s some closure for these families. closure is a really bad word. i found in these tragedies, there s no such thing. it s a different phase for these people. they don t have to wonder what happened to their loved ones but in some ways it s much more difficult. they know their loved ones won t come back. what they want in this phase is for the bodies of their loved ones to be returned with them. that s the most common question being asked is when will these bodies come? divers are taking off in an attempt to look for these bodies. there are about 30 plane, 40 ships inclutding a u.s. destroyer looking for the people who parished in this accident. also looking for the black boxes boxes, the so-called black boxes
these people are. the communication has been rather good here with indonesia officials. they re answering any questions they have at anytime they want the questions answered even if they don t have the answers. that s providing some comfort. a seventh body was found. six passengers and one of the bodies found is a flight attendant. we ve also been told by the government course that sonar has indeed confirmed where the plane is on the bottom of the that va sea. however, other officials say it may have confirmed. two families members say they ve been told in a meeting sonar found the plane. whether it s in one piece or upside down we don t know the answer to that. but we do know at the very least, it has been found and the fact is the water here is relatively shallow.
children. one of the first pilots to spot debris told the indonesian newspaper compass that he saw victims floating in the water still holding hands. it s perhaps an apock riffle tale but it is symbolic of the tragedy. in this south korean church the congregation is weeping for one of their missionaryies. park song bong as well as for his wife and their 11-month-old daughter gone along with them a fiancee whose chance to become a husband will never come. he parished along with his family on their last trip together. a. it was supposed to be their last vacation before got marry popped. britain s only citizen aboard was traveling with his 2-year-old daughter zoe when the plane went down. according to the newspaper the