they ll be looking for the black boxes. it s unclear whether they ll find the black boxes among the larger debris or somewhere else in the water. quite a bit of time before they can officially tell anybody what went wrong with this flight. nbc s katy tur, thanks very much. we ll be back with you throughout the morning. greg, we don t want to get into a great deal of speculation, but in terms of debris field 40 bodies, what does this tell you? immediately, the fact that we have bodies floating we have what looks to be interior debris with life vests and interior material, says the fuselage tube broke up in some regard. so a portion of that fuselage is not intact. it s opened up seats and people and luggage and that kind of thing have floated out of it. now the question is where is the rest of the debris and taking an inventory to make sure we have all of those parts in a generalized area. we could still have a portion of that airplane having broken up
but for families who debit didn t have a warning, that s what added to the pain. i don t think anybody was particularly surprised they would show images like that on tv out here but i think the timing of it was a little well it was really insensitive. certainly, according to our standards, american standards, it was strikingly insensitive. katy tur in singapore, thank you very much. we appreciate it. with us now, the foundder and ceo of a risk investigation company, anthony roman, a commercial pilot and former flight instructor. what s your reaction to what the poor people family members waiting for news had to view this morning at that live press conference? it s horrendous that would have occurred. it is absolute torture. my heart goes out to the families and our prayers are with them. this is a terrible experience to have to encounter.
off course no matter what. ultimately, the pileot is the one who can decide if they feel their safety is in jeopardy. we go to singapore and katy tur live from singapore. can you writebring us up to date? first of all, a lot of people just tuned in it and probably don t know what occurred at that initial press conference when the local television station tell us what happened and how horrendous it must have been for the people there. reporter: yeah, we have more detail. there was a press conference going on the family members were in another room watching the press conference on live television, on tv one in indonesia. and as the press conference was going on the tv station was playing the images live images of those bodies. they have since apologized. but for the family members, this was the first they were learning and seeing they were finding debris from the plane and bodies
foreign correspondent katy tur live from indonesia. families have at least one big answers. but local television there s been some really terribly terribly untasteful news about what has happened in local television out there. tell us about it. reporter: so you see these families hanging out at surabaya airport to get information on what s going on. they have been hanging out or waiting for three days. they came in according to our people on the ground now, looking a little dejected a little listless, because it s been so long. sat down and a knew conference with indonesia officials saying they found debris bodies in the water. and as they were going on with this news conference they showed live footage from the television tv one footage on this press conference and on that tv footage dead bodies floating in the water. the families had no warning of
involved in the search, the country of origin of the flight the country to which the flight is going, the country of origin of the aircraft. and so forth. all end up getting involved in the search. tragically, in this case this is a region of the world where the countries involved have too much experience, because of the earlier malaysian flight, because of the degree to which so many countries were involved in the search. and i think that s one of the reasons the search on this particular flight came together so quickly. david, it s kasie hunt. we ve seen governments in this region sort of struggle to wrap their arms around what has been you know how a pair of major crises on this front and now this morning we re hearing from our katy tur in singapore the indonesian government showed photos to families. what do governments need to do to get their arms around how to deal with these crises from both