should be tracked in real time. rene marsh, thank you so much. bad weather hampered monday s search and with a long rainy season weather in the search area today, will it look a lot like it did the morning 8501 went down? that s the question. showers and thunderstorms are expected in the region again. one of the key countries helping with the search is nearby australia which played a big role in the hunt for mh-370 earlier this year. the australian ambassador to the united states joins us. mr. ambassador thanks so much for being here. i appreciate it. thanks for having me. how is australia going to be helping in the search? currently helping with aircraft. this is our close neighbor. we re operating the p3s what are those? anti-submarine warcraft. and they re american designed.
cnn s david is live in indonesia. you re about an hour from daybreak there. what s day three of the search going to look like? reporter: hi, jake. good morning. it s 4:00 in the morning here tuesday in surabaya. i m just outside the international airport here where that airasia flight took off about two days ago, lost on radar some 46 hours ago. definitely getting the sense that momentum is building toward an all-out search. this would be the second full day of searching, day two monday we saw about 15 ships and 30 aircraft searching areas of the java sea. that s according to the indonesian vice president. the area is increasing now, moving from seven sections to about 11. it s done on a grid system where they can search and check things off. we re hearing local reports that they may actually include parts of land some of the islands a
that the community has learned from the search for flight 370 that will help with this investigation? well there s a lot of lessons that have been learned. the challenge is that none of them have been really acted on lessons that we learned back in air france 447 about tracking of aircraft in real time things about once the aircraft has hit the water, are there proper ways of identifying where the aircraft is at that point. none of those things have been enacted by regulatory authorities to push this forward. those are lessons that have been learned and it s incredibly painful to see these lessons were learned. we know what the case is. in some cases, it s a free fix, if you look at inmarsat. the inability to actually act on them from a regulatory basis. is there anything about where the airasia plane is believed to have gone down that will make wreckage potentially easier to
government for the work that we re doing in relation to surveillance. we do have a close relationship with indonesian. it is in many ways our most vital relationship. because it s right there. it s there. and it s 8,000 islands, ten times the australian population enormous number of indonesian students in australia. indeed it appears to be at least one of the folk on board the aircraft was a student at an australian university. so it s quite a in tourism, it s intermeshed. the foreign minister herself has said in recent times she traveled on an airasia aircraft she does travel on airasia. the eu has banned all but five of indonesia s airlines. i m wondering if there s concern
system. so it could have been very very different than other aircraft it s analogous to driving down the westside highway and you encounter a pothole. you know it s in a particular lane. but imagine if that westside highway moved constantly in three dimensions. jeff this question might seem naive. but i think there are probably a lot of people watching who wonder if the weather was so bad, should the plane have been allowed to take off in the first place? well if you didn t take off every time there was a thunderstorm in the vicinity you wouldn t get anywhere not om in indonesia but anywhere. but in indonesia, we ve heard there was terrible weather all month long. and these kind of thunderstorms are cooking up all the time. they re very normal. anyone who s lived through a summer in the united states afternoons come along, the heat