New Details on Final Moments of Flight 8501
BLITZER: Indonesian officials are revealing new details of the terrifying final moments of AirAsia flight 8501. They say the co- pilot was flying the plane when things went terribly wrong, and they went wrong very fast. Tom Foreman is with us right now. What are we learning? What happened in those final moments?</s>TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You said "moments," and these really were a matter of moments. It was three minutes and 20 seconds. Something like that maybe. The co-pilot was at the helm at that moment. The pilot was overseeing what he did. They very often trade back and forth. What we do know is more details of what happened at that time. The plane was wobbling to one side and they had already asked to go higher in this bad, bad weather. In then in fact, they started climbing very dramatically and the stall warnings started going off inside the cabin -- in the cockpit. That doesn't necessarily mean they were stalling because those warnings can be setoff if the plane simply starts doing a very dramatic climb like that or a dramatic decent. It doesn't necessarily mean it is stalling, but it means it's in the circumstances where a stall could occur. They ended up climbing from 32,000 feet to 37,400 feet in 30 seconds. So this is around twice the rate of climb that would you would ever expect from a plane like that. That's very aggressive and can set up the entire air stability of a plane like this in a very, very bad way, on top of which, the bad storm.</s>BLITZER: But the co-pilot clearly didn't have as many flying hours as the pilot. In a situation like that, wouldn't the pilot take charge?</s>FOREMAN: Well, he had about half as many. He was experienced. Not like he was a novice. I don't know that the pilot would necessarily take charge. You might think that might be the thing to do at the time. But we don't know yet what the pilot was doing. If they were experiencing some other problem, the pilot may have felt it was more important to address the other problems there. Again, a short period of time. Not like they endured this for 15 or 20 minutes.</s>BLITZER: Obviously, they've got a lot more investigation to do to get more information. Tom, thanks very much.</s>FOREMAN: Thanks, Wolf.</s>BLITZER: Coming up, is Mitt Romney planning to run again for president of the United States? The answer is, at least a lot of folks believe, the answer is yes. He already is setting his sights on Hillary Clinton. Gloria Borger, Dana Bash, they're both standing by to discuss this and more. Stay with us.