services says the captain was aware of the hurricane and had a plan to sail around it. but then something happened with the ship s main propeller system, leaving it just disabled there. officials say most of the 33 people on board were americans. rescue crews say so far they ve found but one body wearing a survival suit. the feds say they re combing through logs and maintenance records to piece together what happened the timeline here and hoping to recover the ship s data record. an american and four open peer missing after their yacht vanished at sea during a typhoon. that s the word from coast guard officials in the philippines today. this yacht, a 60-footer, headed to that country from hong kong. but officials say it disappeared somewhere in the south china sea during last week s storm. crews today say they spotted what appears to be someone who did not survive floating in the search area. a major admission from the man who heads u.s. forces in afghanistan. what the general is s
. just one day after a french policewoman was dig ig and found that flight data recorder in the earth, the data record from germanwings flight 9525, investigators say they have more proof now more than ever that andreas lubitz crashed this plane on purpose. and they got even more detail than just that fact. these are commonly called black boxes. and this one really this time was. it was burned to the point of being black. originally it was orange. but that full-speed impact into the southern french alps produced what you are seeing on your screen. and speaking of speed, this really is the newest revelation because it appears from the data recovered from that black box that the depressed and desperate
analysis of that voice recorder of all the data record ers? ? that s what . that s what we re focusing on. it has to be pursued. have to find what the command was. was it a manual entry command or auto pilot to start that descent? that will start to put clues together. suddenly many pieces. we don t know if it s correct but suddenly pieces of the jigsaw come together anderson. notably, no response from the cockpit during the 10 minute descent. well we have a pretty good idea why. whoever in there was either incapacitated, unconscious or dead. is it possible for the pilot who was outside the cockpit to in any way, contact a tower from outside the cockpit? pretty much yes. you could have a cell phone, there s a sat phone, the plane would have had one. but of course the sat phone, well where would it have been?
happened. everyone believes it was a weather related event. what impact did the weather have? did the pilots enter an aerodynamic stall? did the engines become ingested with ice which prevented them from functioning properly? it all depends. the cvr records communications in the cockpit and digital flight data record will tell investigators what the aircraft was doing will be critical and will give answers to what happened. i know the families will be looking for answers. of course you have litigated a number of aviation disasters. what are the attorneys for the families looking for at this point especially now with the new information you mentioned it may impact first thing is recovery of the victims. absolute number one priority. then get the black boxes so we can understand what happened. with respect to legal issues, that s a question for the insurance industry whether they will use this violation to deny coverage to the families. i understand that initially there was a lette
happening. first, this could have not been debris from the plane, it could have sunk, or it could have drifted. either way, discouraging plane. no visual conformation of the ocean or pings from the vis voice or data record. so there is no hard evidence that the plane crashed here. the satellite imagery that has been the device of the search was actually obtained on the 16th of march so it is five days old. something floating on the sea may no longer be floating.