whether that plane should have been in the air that day at all. crews desperately have been trying to recover the bodies of victims and wreckage from airasia 8501. it s been a burdensome nine-day search hampered by awful weather conditions from high winds to heavy rainfall conditions similar to what the plane might have experienced when it went down last sunday on its way from surabaya indonesia, to singapore. and now the new questions, for starters the airasia flight only had a permit to fly that particular route on mondays, tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays. flight 8501 took off, of course on sunday. then there s the issue of weather. according to the indonesian government airasia allowed the flight s captain and co-pilot to be the ones researching the flying conditions before taking off. that is unusual because with most other airlines it s up to the carrier to brief the pilots on weather conditions. and up to the carrier to provide detailed information on things like route forecast