BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: Investigators in Bahrain are searching for a reason why a Gulf Air jetliner crashed in shallow offshore waters Wednesday. The bodies of all the victims have been recovered. For the latest, we go to Manama, the capital of Bahrain, and CNN's Brent Sadler.</s>BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): After intense rescue and salvage efforts, Bahraini officials now conclude they've got bulk of what they need, for the time being at least, off the seabed, in the shallow Persian Gulf waters behind me. Now the extent of the debris field in the aftermath of the crash of the A320 Airbus, a debris field which is about one and a half square miles in size, containing hundreds of thousands, according to officials here, at least, of aircraft fragments. Some of those larger pieces, of which there are several, can be clearly seen protruding from the shallow water, which in places is as little as five-feet deep. U.S. Navy divers have been involved in helping the Bahraini official civil defense units recover pieces of wreckage. Particularly, they found quickly two vital pieces of evidence for the air crash investigation, which is now under way. Those are the data recordings from inside the aircraft, as well as the vital cockpit voice recording machinery. Establishing the cause of the crash, it's expected, is going to take some time. Many, many weeks, at least according to senior airline officials there. There is nothing apparent so far that makes any explanation, any real sense, as to what happened in the final hours of the aircraft's life. In terms of landing, it had reportedly attempted three times, circled the airport twice, and crashed on attempt to land for the third time. There was, according to civil aviation officials here, no distress call sent out by the flight crew to the control tower of Bahrain International Airport. So no clear indications at this stage that the aircraft, even though it was having landing troubles had anything that was of a catastrophic nature that would lead it to crash with the loss of all passengers and all crew, less than two miles behind me, just short of Bahrain's International Airport. I'm Brent Sadler, reporting from Manama, Bahrain.
Investigators Searching for Reason Why Gulf Air Jetliner Crashed Wednesday