hours. quite frankly they were unprepared for this type of scenario. they are not used to it. it was a desert area. a huge mess. when i heard about this i m thinking passenger bill of rights this doesn t apply over there. you mentioned the fog. i also read something about plane delayed switching crews, was that part of the issue? yeah. it seems crazy two things were at play. from the passengers they are saying they are told there wasn t enough space in the airport to accommodate them. so many airlines in the same boat couldn t handle all these passengers who were delayed. so the other thing that was in play and this is the airlines explanation told us through the statement the delay was compound by the fact that they had to replace the original crew with a fresh one because of rules limiting the crew s flight time. not allowed the have the same crew do this 12 hour shift and what s called a long haul shift the 16 hours of that flight to get to san francisco. what the airline was ca
investigation. sure. trooper thomas thank you so much for spending the time with us. thoughts and prayers with little sailor and those who are with her now. appreciate it. i do want to let all of you know a fund has been set up to help this little girl. you can find out how to help. go to cnn.com/impact. coming up next here on cnn in the search of air asia flight 8501 did the pilots flight a route that wasn t approved? those new details ahead. also conditions under water making it impossible for divers as they search for victims and wreckage. jury selection begin in the boston bombing trial. hear why the sides could not reach a plea deal. could this mean the death penalty for this alleged boston bomber?
of some kind and we all know there s lots of ways to learn about the weather. on the issue of icing jeff wise the weather agency said icing was the most likely of possible wish factors. does that seem probable to you i heard that and it struck me that it s probably too early to make that kind of a strong statement. why? a thunderstorm because we know so little we haven t found the black boggses or data recorders. we don t know what happened. we have some reports from the automatic equipment that was transmitting information about flight. we know something about how the flight went up and then came down. to think it was icing is premature. there s a number of things a number of ways planes can get in trouble in and around thunderstorms. ice cigarette one. there s other things as well. i don t think they have the basis. this came from the weather service over there, not from hopefully the report cigarette correct they found those flight data recorders and
well indonesia releasing a new aviation form of regulations now in the wake of air asia flight 8501 s crash into the java sea. the country wants to crackdown on lenient policies which may have contributed to the deadly crash this comes as recovery efforts continue. greg pal cot joins usrom our london bureau. greg, what has been the reaction of indonesia? reporter: hi, gretchen, yeah, just over a week since the crash of airasia. all right, we have been having a little trouble with the satellite with greg pal cot. they said he was good and then he wasn t and then he was good but we are gonna get him back up when we can for u in the mean time the big story of the day house speaker john boehner facing a possible revolt as conservatives challenge his leadership role. so, do they have the votes to replace him? plus, how low will it go as some nasty weather makes its way across the nation. you see in the center of the country there, and go up north?
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