i want you to take a listen to one heartbroken mother. translator: when they explained not only did they find debris but also found body floating in the water, everyone became hysterical. especially the mothers. one mother even blacked out. huh. sadly some of the families were watching tell strigs whenevision when the body were first shown. it wasn t anyone s fault. they have got to be really careful about sensitivity during the search? will they do. of course those were not the searchers that were showing that. and the families i don t think, what people realize. they hang on every word from the news. what what you re reporting, what you re telling them is so very important. particularly depending on what country they are in. for example for 370, some people had no source of information other than the news. they really hung on it. at some points in one country in particular cnn was blacked out.
the family saw that on television. is there a difference now since that happened. getting the information to them. they have got to beep careful? they do. he pointed out real well. there wasn t an intent with what happened here. there wasn t some kind of media mongor that was trying to get this on ear. it happens. in an accident scene. all most impossible to film an accident scene without having something like that. have to have sensitivity. eric you are an oceanographer. tell us about this area of the java sea and walterter conditions there. the java sea where the search is going on it is shallow. shallower than most of the great lakes, actually. an inland sea. 20,000 years ago during the ice age. this was forest. it is really different environment from where, for instance the search of mh-370 has been. also different from air france and atlantic ocean went down. but the problem that the search team is now facing is the monsoon season. this plane couldn t have gone
happen? how does the, how do the families get information where you are? stow what is happening is officials go into the family room. give them updates whenever the family members want it. the question that i just asked the airport manager, a short time ago, is what is the main thing you re hearing from the family members right now. the main thing over and over is bring me back the body of my loved one. do an of them still hold out hope that perhaps they got a life preserver and floement addated away and they re alive. they don t think that. they want to see the bodies of their loved ones. will riply, the u.s. ship has arrived, another is prepared. what is the latest you are hearing from where you are in beijing? yeah, the u.s. joining the multinational effort now to recover the people who were on board that plane and continue the search also for for the debris and whatnot.
down. joining me now, david souci, aviation expert with us here. this is as we were talking. this is quite fast. it is very fast. i am really pleased how it has come together. a great example of the great leadership that started with tony fernandez. propagated through the investigation. he didn t get in the way. he didn t hold information. he simply went through it. we heard it said before that her reaction to this is almost that of jealousy. because she wishes that she had this information. that that information was available to her. but she can rest assured that what happened in this investigation was a result of what happened in mh-370. everybody worked together. and he and the entire international aviation community worked together to make the next accident more smooth. smoother. and it is. it is running smoother. yeah you have had a long day at cnn. yes. that s okay.
don, to the day when when flight 370 disappeared. i was sitting down yesterday with steven whang, whose mother was on the plane. and he was telling me that he was hoping for a miracle. he was hoping that perhaps some people in the air asia flight might be alive. because almost 10 months later, he believes his mother may be alive. he hasn t been able to speak her name. because he says she is not a victim. i can t accept she is a victim until i have proof. and it was during our interview, don, that we learned that, that the body were being recovered from the airasia crash. yet that son that i spoke with and so many others in this part of the world still don t hatch any answers about flight 370. gary tuchman, will riply. thank you very much. i want to bring in an oceanographer at university of north wales in sydney and cnn safety analyst and author of malaysia airlines flight 370. the reason i asked gary the question about floep of inw of information.