into airasia? i think it s too early to say but clearly that will be a question on people s minds. but, scott, you re only as strong as your weakest link right? let s say the air traffic controllers were not the best right? that s possible. should that be part of the investigation? i m sure it will be part of the investigation, but the thing that we have to keep in mind is for good or ill the pilots are ultimately responsible for the safe operation of the aircraft. and in the united states if i was faced with a similar situation where weather had closed in i would hopely. done my home work a little bit ahead of time and wouldn t find myself in that situation as would, i m sure many of my fellow pilots. but if we were found in that situation, we can use a number of tools up to and including some emergency authority to ensure that the aircraft s flight path is kept safe at all times. and perhaps these pilots tried to accomplish that as well. the pilots are ultimately
don t want to talk to the media and rightfully so they don t want to talk to people like myself who are telling the story to the world but one woman did. take a listen. translator: but my brother never flew with airasia so i kept calm. then someone told me that they saw his name on tv. then i saw it. as you can see there, some pain just does not need translation. remember 162 people on board that flight and now 162 families just clinging on to hope hoping for the best at this point. but, you know getting the news that we re getting this morning, it doesn t look good for them.
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
surabaya. and the ceo of airasia, tony fernandes, by him. any sense of what they re saying? i can only imagine that con condolences aren t enough. it s the presence of the president sharing the grief of his citizens. he he is actually doing what he should be doing. he s with his people. 150 of the 155 passengers were indonesian citizens. a lot of them were actually from surabaya as well. as far as we know he has come out and he is now making a statement i believe to the media it sounds like it is in the bahasa language. no doubt he ll be talking about the tragic loss this country has had to deal with and continues to deal with. he is with tony fernandes, as you said, we tony fernandes is the founder and ceo of airasia,
right now with indonesian authorities in surabaya about the doomed airasia flight 8501. the ceo of airasia. and the head of the airport authority in is your buyia we ll continue to monitor what they say in the news conference this as the search crews get closer to the site of where the plane went down. what will it take to find the key parts of the data recorder, after this. when you don t get enough sleep. and your body aches. you re not yourself. tylenol ® pm relieves pain and helps you fall fast asleep and stay asleep. we give you a better night. you re a better you all day. tylenol®