we ve been told by so many officials that the biggest obstacle in trying to find all of the bodies and trying to find the fuselage and main parts of the plane is the weather, and, of course, it is monsoon season here in indonesia. it is not going to be calm conditions out here. and as you can see, it s certainly not. paula hancocks, cnn on the java sea. paula, thank you for that. we ll have more on the severe weather that is really hampering the search effort coming up here at the half hour. but right now, let me bring in alan diehl, former ntsb investigator author of the book air safety: using science to save lives one crash at a time. bob we scoli, and former faa investigative, david siucci. and author of malaysia airlines flight 370: why it disappeared and why it s a matter of time before it happens again. the searchers are having a very
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and we ll of course talk with you again. thanks as always. welcome. thanks. well a church in indonesia has lost dozens of its members. passengers on board the flight. there were 42 church members. the worshippers are struggling to cope with losing so many friends and family members. gary tuchman visited their church in surabaya. reporter: they are people who have something in common. they belong to the same protestant. they arye here with something else in common. they are all people who lost loved ones on board airasia flight 8501. heart broken people here are members of the ma war sharon church with 45,000 members across indonesia. sadly many of them had packed
other ships, choppers, airplanes. this is a huge international effort. we get the feeling it s all hands on deck at this point russia coming in with two planes a couple dozen divers. south korea, indonesia, singapore, japan, malaysia and the u.s. all involved in this search. despite weather and challenging conditions we re hearing waves of 10 to 14 feet. searchers seem to be making some progress. we saw images of what looked like part of the window section or a window pane of the airbus 8320 come out on friday. that s a real first look at anything that looks like a an aircraft. the priority still to recover human remains. 30 bodies recovered so far. still a ways to go for search officials. also they re looking, they re starting to look underwater and listen underwater for the sound of the black boxes, hopefully to find those which will shed some light on what may have happened aboard the aircraft and also to
airplane that wasn t supposed to be in the air. it s just that papers weren t in order. and i don t know if you could go around to some random company in indonesia and their papers are going to be in order. i think it might be often a place where things are not in order. they re one of the airlines in the region that s been lauded. dan, the reason i ask, as a commercial pilot, this is a region and specifically a route that is very heavily trafficked. so could it be that they were not allowed to fly that route on sundays because so many other carriers were in the air? we know that there was heavy traffic at the time that this plane asked to elevate its altitude. well it s hard to guess at this point. i tend to agree with jeff it s probably more of a bookkeeping, clerical kind of a mistake than a safety error. i don t think this caused the accident for sure. i think it s just part of the investigation process that s