blasio has ordered nagsflags to be flown at half-staff. he was survived by his wife matilda and five children including new day anchor chris cuomo. i ll find out what our experts think about indonesia s response to the airasia flight 8501. and i ll answer some of your questions sent to #8501qs.
insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. . almost the bottom of the hour now. i m ana cabrera. thank you for staying with me. we have some major new developments in the search for victims and wreckage from air asia flight 8501 today. searchers found what resembles a window panel from the plane. along with other possible wreckage they are hoping it will
the airplane it s leaning more towards the airplane having impacted the surface whole as opposed to maybe broken up in flight. anything is possible. i don t want to rule that out. but that seems to be that you know the three folks strapped in their seats together. again with the window panel you spoke of earlier fairly significant chunk of the plane. well it is yet to be seen how significant it is. it may show a location and just be a further confirmation of where these particular passengers were. but a lot of debris stoorts float up wasn t these choppy seas it s go to be awful out there. les abend and bill savage thank you. indonesia has the largest muslim population in the world but there s a small number of christians there and one church in particular lost 46 members open flight 8501. we ll take you inside to hear from friends, family. plus given the clues so far more experts are raising the
but we recently you may remember back near the beginning of the year a united flight was going from denver to billings montana, and they hit such severe turbulence it was if the bottom of the plane was punched. there were flight there was a passenger who was not belted in who was thrown around in the aircraft. so even though an aircraft can take it and there are maneuvers that pilots can take there s very violent and stressful events that take place on airplanes that can be very jolting. is it always up? it could be up. is it down? well we know from delta aircraft in 1985 that was a microburst a different sort of force on that aircraft. i hit a down draft once only once and it was the scariest flying experience i ever had.
so any debris that is floating is going to travel a fairly significant distance but perhaps it will get a large push into the fuselage in water that s 100-foot deep. that sounds significant but it s not like looking where we were looking for the malaysia flight in thousands of feet of water. all right. thank you so much, karen maginnis and david soucie, appreciate it. some of the other top stories that we are flying, take a look. these are flags flying at half-staff as tribute to former new york governor mario cuomo who died yesterday. flags were already lowered to honor two new york police officers. republicans and democrats are all remembering the former governor as a man admired and respected, even those who battled him in the political arena. his family says that he died of natural causes due to heart failure. he was 82 years old.