double-check some data. i think so. certainly that s why rescuers are looking to see if they can find that data. so key. tom, this is an airline and an airplane with a pretty good safety record, right? right. so this is sort of it s a budget airline. but up until this point, its record was clean, as youens it ens understand it? yes, no indication that they weren t meeting their safety requirements. no indication of any kind of foul play with the aircraft or something wrong with the pilot or co-pilot. we don t have any of that. so far, i think the weather dominates the story until proven otherwise, that this is the one thing that affected this aircraft that was different than the other, that it was in extreme terrible weather compared to mh-370 which was a clear, calm night when that went missing. to that point, peter, we ve been fielding a lot of questions, very good questions,
just looking at the crime scene and the report, great report, but it s out of control. rick, how do you see it? well, you know, they need to get the evidence and as david said i think it s important we find out how that weapon impacted that aircraft, to find out what it did and that might give us a better clue as to the condition of the weapon. we re hearing different reports about where that came from. was it a front-line russian piece of equipment? was it something taken from a ukrainian base? was it modified? this would be important. peter golz, just as, you know, as noah was talking about, the priority is obviously dealing with the victims of this crash, dealing with them in a sensitive way, dealing with them in a humane way, in a dignified way. and right now they don t have the capabilities on the ground really to do that. no, they don t. what has to happen is there has to be international action to
joining know new is the former inspector general of the nstb. our military analyst. and in washington, peter golz, a specialist in aviation and international crisis management. also joining us is david soucie, cnn aviation analyst. appreciate all of you being with us. david, we were just hearing from noah schneider about the crash scene. from what he said, in terms of trying to, trying to investigate this, what challenges lay ahead? this really isn t just one crime scene, this is multiple crime scenes spread out over a great distance. yes, it is. documenting it is a challenge just when it s a singular accident but now you ve got several different things that have to be treated as accident sites. if bodies are falling separately, those have to be documented as well, what tract tra jektry the object that hit
the news that anguished families want to appear hear, the italian media reporting five more bodies have been found on board that capsized cruise ship, raising the death toll to one. this as black box recordings reveal maritime officials were furious at the captain after he apparently abandoned ship. peter golz joins us, act be director of the national transportation safety board. peter, thank you very much. clearly not the ntsb s jurisdiction, this happened in italy. who takes control of the investigation, what happens? there are actually two parallel investigations. one conducted by the equivalent of the italian coast guard, the marine casualty division, that s going on right now, then secondly, unlike the united states, there is an immediate criminal investigation, in which a magistrate is assigned. the captain is in jail, the magistrate is proceeding, on top of that, there s likely to be an e.u. investigation, as well as a u.n., through