until at least until they find the two black boxes, but they believe right now that there was engine failure due to icing which caused a stall which caused the plane to go down very fast to the water. that s what they think. that s what they that the evidence points to right now. like we said, she haven t heard any pingers. they haven t got to the black boxes yet. the batteries are only designed to last for 30 days from the time of the accident. and that was exactly a week ago today. so it was only 23 days more battery power left. hopefully the weather continues to at least today it seems as if it cooperated in this search. hopeful think will are more clear days ahead. gary tuchman, thank you. search and rescue teams extended the zone that they re scouring for flight 8 a01. i want to talk to a former inspector of general for department of transportation, mary schiavo. this area does remain the same.
it s more like lily they don t know for sure they need to find the black boxes. no pingers, no nothing at this point. the bad weather led to engine failure from icing when the plane stalled. that s what they think happened. they won t be sure until they get the voice and data recorder. natalie? we know the search has called off now because of the murky water. but this is the nicest day you ve experienced since you ve been there. what does it look like for the coming 24 48 hours as far as improving weather conditions? reporter: we can tell you, the sun is about to go down. there s a lot of sunlight here. the equator runs through this nation. you have a little over 12 hours of sunlight. it gets light about 4:45 in the morning and the sun goes down at 5:00 5:30. there are ships, planes and
because they haven t had the pingers working to find the black boxes that unless they get visibility it may be a while before they find the plane and the black boxes. they do believe, authorities say, that this plane did not explode in the sky. they believe that because they found five very large pieces of the plane, including a 60-foot long chunk, as tall as a six-story building and they have already found people in their seats with seat belts around them seats that floated away from the plane, but they believe most of the victims are still on this airplane on the bottom of the java sea. they hope to get to them. these families who are in this tent this is the family crisis center where they can get information and get counseling. the first few days deb, they thought maybe there was a miracle. this is a country of thousands of islands, 99.99% of them are uninhibited. it wasn t farfetched to say maybe my loved one got on a raft and are on an uninhabited island. now very few people thin
is where you want to look for the black box material. so they really should be looking at and i m sure they are, looking at that raid yar ddar d me to determine where the plane was last known to be. most loss of control accidents have the plane being within 25 miles of the last known location. if the wing came off and severe icing that brought the plane down or other struck trstructur failure, it should be close to that point. we don t have a window into what they re doing at this point, but you should be dragging a pinger locator back and forth listening for the pingers attached to the black boxes. that s how you can most easily find them. now there have been many cases where the ping pers don t work for whatever reason. in which case you won t be able to find the pingers. and so then you might do a side scan sonar search going up and
divers will be able to fulfill the duties they want to do. they have found five large pieces of wreckage, the largest being 60 feet long, that gives them the indication that this plane is not exploded in pieces and that leads them to know there wasn t an explosion in the air. the belief now from a government agency is that the bad weather is a major cause of this, while the pilot was trying to avert the weather, he had engine failure because he got ice on the engines which resulted in a stall, ending the plane s life and the people s lives who were on the plane. the feeling is they won t know until they get the black boxes, that s the likely scenario and the pingers which indicate where the black boxes are, the batteries last for 30 days, now down to 23. we have no sound from the pingers. they can t see the boxes because there s no visibility in the water. they need to know definitively what happened to the plane. it s a crisis center for the