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The investigation into what happened to airasia flight 8501. two american ships have just begun the search again. it is now daybreak in indonesia for the missing jet. it went down in the java sea ten days ago. reuters is reporting sonar has picked up what may be the tail of the airliner. that s hugely significant because those black boxes are located close to the tail. we re also learning new details about the final moments on board that plane. and what could have caused it to crash with 162 on board. indonesian officials are revealing the jet did not have permission to fly that day. that s right. it wasn t even supposed to be in the air. and the weather agency in indonesia is now telling the wall street journal that ice may have brought down the air bus 8320. and they re figuring out if that may have been the case. gary duckman begins our coverage live. the search mission has just ....
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 ....
Weather. we were talking, david soucie, not just one day of good weather. they need a few good days of weather. exactly. that has to settle out there and have to have the quiet come in as dave was referring to earlier as well to hear it. it s really got to have some settling time in that itcz i m not sure how long they have to wait for that. in randi kaye s piece a few minutes ago, there s a chance if the black boxes are found, it still might not tell us what happened to bring the plane down. yes, but i think, you know, once they re recovered, they re designed to withstand the impact and the airbus of this vintage is equipped with many many streams of captured telemetry of what every aspect of the machine was doing as well as what was going on in the cockpit with the voice recorders. so i m fairly optimistic when they re found, we ll get some ....