as we talked about all week the crash site is about five miles from where i am at the recovery staging area. all yesterday and again today, the sun just came up and recovery efforts are just beginning this morning. debris is coming back. forensic teams that are on site i don t know if you can see, there are big blue vans behind me. as the debris comes off, they are sifting through it. the other thing is that family members are here. the identification process has started. investigators are asking those family members for dna so that their family members can be identified. molly, you mentioned time and again, the territory there, how difficult it is in recovery efforts. have they given a sense of how much longer the investigation will take? they have not. they initially said the on-site crash investigation would take about a week, but it s only getting more complicated and
recovered, and investigators are trying to figure out what caused the crash of a germanwings airbus in the french alps with 150 people on board. everyone on that flight from barcelona to dusseldorf presumed dead including two babies. the cause of the crash a mystery. germanwings says the plane descended from its cruising a little tudaltitude for eight minutes before contact was lost and the plane slammed into the mountain. now crews are struggling to recover bodies and wreckage from snow-covered high mountain valley here where that plane went down. i want to bring in now cnn s erin mclaughlin in the recovery staging area that s about six miles from the crash site. good morning, erin. reporter: hi christine. well that all-important recovery operation has resumed this morning. this after it had been suspended in the overnight hours due to difficult conditions. now, the airfield you see behind
recovered. and investigators are trying to figure out just what caused that crash of a germanwing s airbus in the alps. 150 people on board. everyone on that flight from barcelona to germany presumed dead including two babies a german school group. the cause a mystery. germanwings said it descended from its cruising altitude for eight minutes before radar contact was lost and the plane slammed into the mountain. now crews are struggling to recover bodies and wreckage from the snow-covered high mountain valley where this plane went down. i want to bring you the latest this morning from cnn s erin mclaughlin. the recovery staging area about six miles from the crash. good morning, erin. reporter: hi christine. well that recovery effort has resumed this morning. this after it was suspended in the overnight hours due to