I am don lemon. Thank you for joining us. How will police keep times square safe when theyre at odds with the mayor literally turning their backs on him. A lot to got to tonight. Begin with the latest on the crash of flight 8501. I want to begin with reporters in the region. And gary tuchman, and start with you. The latest on the grim searchandrecovery right now . Don the search is more fichlgt itmore the search is horrifying. They have what they need to continue it. There are 40 planes and ships on the java sea. Looking for the bodies of passengers. Six bodies have been recovered including a Flight Attendant. They know that because she was wearing her Flight Attendant uniform. The problem right now is though you have very bad weather conditions. It is very cloudy. It is very foggy. I actually just got off a plane. I flew here from bali an indonesian island. It was very hard to see. It was very windy. There is a lot of turbulence. You see what theyre dealing with on the sea. What is ve
wreckage from the flight is being recovered. the investigation far from over. in fact it has just begun. back with me now, mary mike carlene, david. once all the wreckage is found and recovered, david, what s next. how do we get answers here? once it comes back inside. the accident investigator in charge is the person who controls everything as far as what goes in. what goes out. the briefings. everything is controlled through that investigator in charge. and so that s where the information goes to. that s where the parts are going to. they re all controlled. there is a chain of custody that has to be maintained. so there is no difference in that. so that when mary and wants to defend her clients. she needs to have chain of custody to know that part from here to here to here. so that s a lot of part, a lot of the investigation is just documentation. yeah not sure. wanted to ask you. don t remember if i got to it.
debris recovered so far may offer clues as to what brought the jet down. my experts are here with me now. a former inspector general for department of transportation now an attorney for victims of transportation accidents. mike boyd is an aviation consultant president of the boyd group. and an a 330 pilot and author of flight for safety. and a, back with us as well here. mary the first of the debris was spotted 60 miles from the plane s last known location. what does the distance tell us? it tells us the plane did travel some after the last communication, last radar hit. but not very far. pretty well contained. so whatever happened. whether an aerodynamic stall or mechanical issue it was pretty quick, happened quickly after the last radar contact, last communication. there would be some drift in the days on the ocean. probably not quite that much. pretty well contained and a very
it is very important for them to get the news. while it is terribly tragic that they did it. families really want information. and they they scarcely look away from the news because that s where they re getting it. and the truth and the facts and information every morsel is what they want. so it was unfortunate, but that s not going to stop them from trying to seek every piece of fact that they can have. yeah. the ceo of airasia spoke abut cantaloupe sure to closure today. here s what he said. the only slight benefit is that for the people there is some closure. this is a scar with me for the rest of my life. it doesn t change anything. very little. there is at laeseast some closure. not knowing what happened. holding out hope. ceo tony fernandez. mary, we know six body have been recovered so far. it s important.