from those black boxes will be things like what altitudes was the aircraft at. what was the rate of descent. what were the engines doing, what was the rpm doing, the pressure doing and so on and so forth. so this is the first step in the investigation. we are now being told that the aircraft the airline has confirmed the debris is from the aircraft. it is from the aircraft. so this is the aircraft that they have been searching for. the airline confirms that. david rothgoth in miami, let me ask you in terms of the search now ongoing, no longer a rescue the search mission, how is it employed? how do different countries come together? is there a protocol for countries participating in this the united states offshore or ships in the area? what do you have to go through a certain agency or certain rules, employ yourself in that search? well first of all, there are protocols, and they you know a variety of countries have a claim on the search or get
been found in the java sea. a spokesman for indonesia says bodies have been recovered. the debris includes red and white materials, the colors of that missing aircraft including a plane door and oxygen tanks. here with us now from miami, ceo of publisher of foreign policy magazine david rothgoth and foreign affairs correspondent mikie kay, who has logged 3,000 hours of flying helicopters and jets. let s start with you. we asked this question earlier of greg feith. what s your instinct right now about what happened here? well i think what voices are reporting at the moment is a number of bodies and debris which look like it could be from a plane. so it s important to note it s not 100% confirmed that it s from 8501 but looks like it