New details and grim new discoveries in the crash of that airasia jet. The first bodies recovered have arrived on land. Seven have now been pulled from the java sea where the plane crashed with 162 people onboard and while Recovery Efforts are going full force on the water the air search has been held up by bad weather. Now theres conflicting information about whether the plane itself has been found. One search official tells cnn sonar has defected debris from the airbus a320, but the head of asia denies that. We are covering all angles with our correspondents including reporters in the region and our guests including captain sully sullenberger, the pilot behind the socalled miracle on the hudson but first, here is the latest that were learning. Two bodies from airasia flight 8501 arriving in indonesia and rushed to a hospital. This is their first stop before being sent on to surabaya where two victims arrived earlier. Their caskets marked 001 and 002. 100 military personnel there to p
A sudden moment of horror captured on dash cam video. An airliner with 58 people on board falls from the sky, hits a moving taxi and a bridge railing and plunges into a river. More than half on board are dead but somehow, there are survivors and search and rescue operations are still under way. We have extraordinary images of the crash and its dramatic aftermath. The pilots urgent distress call and new clues to what may have gone wrong. Our correspondents and analysts and newsmakers are standing by with full coverage. Lets begin with cnns brian todd for the very latest. Reporter investigators are pouring over the black boxes of this airplane that crashed moments after takeoff from taipei. An unbelievable piece of video captured the flights final horrifying moments. From a cars dash camera the scene unfolds in about six seconds. The turboprop plane appears suddenly on the left side losing altitude. It makes a dramatic pitch to the left clips a taxicab and the bridge and hurtles into the
The other seven meet in an earlier forum. We are joined now from the debate site in cleveland. Gloria borger is here with me in washington. David, youre there. Youre on scene. Its just hours ahead of all of this getting going. Donald trump is promising to be very civil. Thats what he says. What do you think the chances are that hell be able to keep that promise or do you think hes just really going to be unpredictable and we have no idea . Reporter i think hes going to keep that promise, brianna, right up until somebody takes him on. The moment that happens, all bets are off. So i do think hes trying to enter into this debate sort of staying above the fray but he has said very clearly if somebody hits him, hes going to hit back harder and weve seen evidence of that already on the campaign trail. He is what is amazing, brianna, he is totally unpredictable. He is the wild card in this race which is not how you normally describe the guy that is the formidable frontrunner at the debate. Th
Transformed into a desperate rush to escape an inferno but there were four high profile accidents on metro north rail in 2013. Could anything have been done to stop this one . Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with our world lead. Its a sight we almost never get to see. Usually we only witness the grim aftermath of a plane crash, but this time incredible if upsetting dashcam video capturing an airplane going down. Its a rare opportunity for investigators to piece together specifically what led to this tragedy to try to make sure it never happens again. The death toll climbing from this plane crash in taiwan. We now know 31 lives at least were lost when the wing of this transasia flight clipped a taxicab on a bridge and plunged into a river. 15 others survived. 12 are still missing. Another view shows that cabs front end ripped apart. The two people inside thankfully barely hurt also incredibly and thankfully many on the plane managed to escape. You can even
And just to be clear, you were on this plane, right, or did you see another plane on the runway . No. I was on the another plane that was on the runway and then we saw the plane on fire. Okay. About how far away was it and how long did it how big was the fire . I mean it was roughly probably 200 to 300 yards away. We could clearly see very large flames, as the picture shows, coming out of the left engine. Obviously the black smoke was engulfing the area. And then, it was then when we saw the doors fly open and the inflatable slides come out. And when the inflatable slides came out, were there any Emergency Responders already on the scene or was the fire still active and people just started to get out . No, that was very surprising. Obviously we knew something was wrong. And we werent sure if the plane was empty or not. It was then when the slides inflated where we knew people were onboard. So after the people started exiting the plane coming down the slide and they were running very fa