harsh weather is once quen again keeping divers out of the water in the search for airasia flight 8501. crews are searching 45,000 square kilometers of the java sea by air and in the water. officials have not announced any new debris recovered today but they displayed seats and other debris pulled earlier from the water. so far they ve not found the plane s main body or the data recorders. let s bring in our anna coren. she joins us live at the crisis center in surabaya indonesia. surabaya of course where the flight originated. anna we ve been following every twist and turn of this tragedy for ten days now. but what s the newest information you have in the updates on the recovery operation? reporter: well errol, we just heard from the disaster victim identification unit that they have named three victims. three men range from age 19 through to 61.
families desperate to find the wreckage because it s believed that the majority of the passengers are there still strapped in their seat belts at the bottom of the java sea. so much to go through. anna coren live from surabaya, indonesia. thank you. too grim to bear. there were 138 adults on airasia flight 8501. 16 children and one infant. well now the loved ones they leave behind share a common agony. that s right. some of the families sat down with our gary tuchman to talk about their grief and share some memories of their loved ones. reporter: as most families wait for their loved ones to be found, these are the caskets of a mother and daughter two victims of airasia flight 8501. several days ago we talked with this brother and sister who were among those waiting. translator: my mother and then my sister and my brother-in-law and his whole
made up out of whole cloth, completely totally. thanks for joining us, everyone. and with improved weather divers are back in the water, looking for any traces of airasia flight 8501. search teams are combing a 45,000 square kilometer area in the java sea. officials have displayed seats and other debris pulled out of that crash zone but so far they ve not found the plane s main body or the flight data recorders, and so far today they have not found any more bodies though officials have identified six more of the bodies which were already found. 19 have been identified in total. let s go to cnn s anna coren joining us live from the crisis center in surabaya indonesia. it is just after 1:00 in the afternoon there. and despite the weather
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wreckage. five large objects have been detected in the search area. the largest being 59 feet long. officials believe bodies of many victims may be there as well. safety procedures are also coming under scrutiny amid questions about how accurate the crew s weather information was. officials say it s likely tropical storms played a role in that crash. and indonesia s transportation ministry said the airline did not have permission to fly on sundays, the day flight 8501 crashed. however, aviation officials in singapore where the flight was headed say there were no restrictions. steve rattner, older guys like you and me hope you don t mind i m flattered to be your age and not my age. flattered to have your wisdom. we remember when crashes in the united states were commonplace. the horrible crash at o hare in the late 70s.