so in this case the fact that the plane went down so quickly or whatever happened to it happened so quickly that we should have all the voice communication that the pilot and co-pilot had with each other, as well as radioed back to the air traffic controllers that they may not have received. so you ll hear everything that was going on in terms of what they were trying to deal with. then the data recorder which records over the whole flight, will be saying everything the airplane was doing, speed, altitude all of the information of the flight itself. but the cockpit voice recording is going to be very very important in this case. yeah. and the search for that continues. david gallow if you can talk about the timing here. there were mistakes made when we were talking about the march flight of mh-370. it really hurt the overall search. how key was the piece of debris that was found early on in the air france flight that went down flight 447 over the atlantic how key was it to
chad what does weather like this do to a plane? it will shake it and i ve been in plenty of airplanes that have fallen 500 feet or gone up 500 in violent up or downdrafts. but i want to put the viewers out there at ease because weather like this happens every day. this is the intertropical convergence zone. this is where hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones are made. this is the air coming together and rising rapidly and thunderstorms develop. and we have a plane going through this type of weather probably every day and we don t have planes missing every day. so yes, this was a tough situation. but it s more than weather with this. there s something else going on here weather created the stress, it created the drama. but it likely didn t bring the plane down. we don t even have any significant indications that the weather was that bad. but something else was going on here. we have weather like this every day. i want to take you now to what happened as it took off. it took off. there was no
155 passengers most from indonesia, and seven crew members were on board. our concern right now is for the relatives and for the next of kin. there s nothing more important to us for our crew s family and for the passengers family, that we look after them. that is our number one priority at the moment. reporter: two teenaged girls looking for their parents are among those gathered at the international airport here. families are getting briefed at a crisis center set up at the airport, closed-door meetings were held earlier with relatives and airline officials. so basically, brianna, as you see, the frustrations are mounting. this is a search that you can t help but draw comparisons with mh-370 the still-missing malaysian airlines plane. china s now joined this search. australia is also part of it. malaysia is. and the u.s. has been asked to start looking at contributing
thunderstorms. he was given the okay to do both but then quickly the atc pulled back the okay to go up higher because there were six other planes in the vicinity. it s still unclear exactly how many of those planes went into that rough weather. we ll get that, of course as the days and hours unfold in this case. leah: and, of course, this is a terrifying time for families because they re hoping to find some resolution, some trace of this airplane comes up. at this point we ve seen reports of some debris. we ve seen reports of possibly an oil slick, some things that may lead investigators, may lead searchers to this aircraft. but in the meantime families very much waiting for answers trace. trace: they believe, leah it s in the java sea which unlike the malaysian air 370 flight was in depths of 15-18,000 feet the sea is only 151 feet in the java sea, so this will be a lot easier to get to. much more to come. breaking news continuing here on america s newsroom.
collision or causing a diversion at that point. so at this point, even if it was an emergency, someone needs to communicate with the air traffic controllers and say we re going off of our intended flight. that didn t happen and it s very concerning. we re looking at different factors, peter, weather being one. you have the possibility of technical difficulties human error. judging by other issues what is the likelihood it s human error? accidents in general are a chain of events. you break the chain and the accident doesn t occur. the lawman fak man how much information is inside of the black box? that s going to be critical in this case especially. the one advantage we have here compared to mh-370 is that the voice recordings loop over themselves ever 30 minutes in most of the cases.