Soldiers from across Europe suited up in heavy diving equipment inside a cavernous flooded stone quarry deep beneath the Hungarian capital. Once their air tanks, flippers and waterproof diving suits were secured, they slipped beneath the cold water and, flashlights in hand, disappeared into the darkness. The military divers from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Lithuania were participating in an international training exercise in Budapest to prepare them for a variety of scenarios: recovery operations after a boat accident, rescues during a catastrophic flood, or the removal of unexploded underwater ordnance following an armed conflict.
that s a huge huge challenge. final quepstion, we re focusing so much on debris and hopefully finding the tail section because therein lies the flight data recorders. they re still pulling bodies as a navy woman, how would you be trained knowing that at any given moment you may see someone? these are trained military divers. and this is something that we are used to doing, unfortunately. it is a part of our mission. and we know that that s just something that we need to be prepared for. when i was involved in twa flight 800, a lot of the passengers were discovered still strapped into their seats. i have to assume that that s what they re going to find the majority of the passengers here on airasia, is strapped into their seats still with part of the fuselage when they find those sections of the fuselage.
was going on in the final seconds of the flight. a lot left to do in this investigation. what happens next? we talked about that piece of the chuk of the fuselage that you mentioned they think is in about maybe 80 to 100 feet of water. that s a good sign because you can send military divers down, these elite divers and they can recover this evidence very quickly, the black boxes and so on. there is also now, we re told a u.s. destroyer on the way. it s a destroyer that has that sonar mapping equipment that we all became very familiar with during the missing flight 370 search. that will map the sea bed to give them a better idea of exactly where things are. they ll also have elite divers on that. listen now to the ceo of airasia. the plans for airasia now is to ensure that we work with all the regulators to ensure that we will bring a speedy dks for the family s
ferry by divers for the first time today. as the desperate search for survivors continues. translator: 176 ships and 28 planes will be mobilized to search the area around the sunken ship. 652 civilian, government and military divers will try to search the interior of the ship over 40 attempts. it is indeed a very sad situation there. and coming up at the top of the hour, we are live in thailand with the very latest. and kelly, meanwhile, a glimmer of hope coming six weeks after flight 370 went missing. crews in australia saying they ll be done searching the area in just five to seven days. the bluefin 21 delivering clear images of the sea floor today. over the next few days, the unmanned sub will search the same area, the possible black box pings detected. so far the bluefin has gone on six missions, all coming up
with military divers, they started to gear up in that such off the rough waters of the yellow sea. forty-six crew members are still missing, possibly trapped inside this ship. over the weekend, korean families were on the sea holding out hope that survivors would be found. the headline from the south korean government suggesting the north may have intentionally floated some sort of device there in the water that hit that ship. more on this developing story as we get it from overseas in asia. martha: bill, back here in the united states, the fbi, launching raids across the midwest. federal agents buffeted at least three suspects who are going to appear in court today. this is a strange story, folks. some arrested on gun charges. we still don t know what exactly is prompting raids of this group, but a source says that the targets were christian militia groups, neighbors are reacting this morning. look at this.