we don t know at this stage. the meeting with the officials and the members of the family broke up just a few minutes ago, poppy. we can see through the windows, the media is not allowed into the area obviously, but they did not seem to be there was no real reaction no emotional outburst that i could see, because the meeting there was one or two women crying. throughout the meeting, they are looking grim-faced and listening to the information coming from the indonesia authorities as well as airasia. i cannot tell at this stage. okay andrew stevens, thank you very much. please stand by as we continue to follow this again, i want to reset for you as we follow this missing airasia flight 8501 what we do know very important, significant development coming to us from the chief of the indonesia national search and rescue agency saying at a press conference just wrapping up they believe that flight 8501
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they believe flight 8501 quote, is on the bottom of the sea. again, the chief of the national search and rescue agency saying they believe flight 8501 is at the bottom of the sea. let me go straight to andrew stevens who is there tracking it live for us. how do they know this this early on? reporter: well this is a press conference coming from jakarta, poppy i m down near surabaya. so we don t know yet what what they re using and what information they have that we don t have to say something like that. obviously there has been a search, the search yesterday, when the plane first disappeared and its been ongoing now for three or four hours today. what s happening where i am is the families of the passengers and the crew are being at a closed door briefing.
accurate successful search here? well you know that s where the question gets tricky because it was unlike any other we ve ever experienced, and hopefully this will turn out to be nothing like that. member at the very beginning the mh-370 it looked just like this. there was searching in the area where the plane was last observed. didn t find wreckage and the other baffling information, astonishing information emerged, hopefully in this case this will be a much more run-of-the-mill, as a horrible tragedy regardless but at least the passengers family members will have some sense of conclusion as to what happened. it was merely a weather incident, some kind of, you know malfunction or what have you results in a known quantity. ten mornts later, we don t know what happened we don t know where or why. yeah. it s hard to learn from that. mary walk us through a little bit about the last signal that we got coming at 6:24 a.m.
from the black boxes yet, but could have emergency locator transmitter information, they could have information from satellite surveillance. certainly there was a lot of searching for that in 370. i think they must have additional coordinates. and then it s possible talking to anyone who could have seen or heard something, they also might have people near the scene, near where they think it is at the bottom of the sea who have seen something. mary, stand by. thank you for your expertise. don t go anywhere. let me bring in our other experts, tim taylor a specialist in underwater search and ken christiansen joins us again, who has done extensive work with the u.s. government. let me go first to you, ken. given now that the main search and rescue agency in indonesia leading this effort says they believe that this plane, quote,