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All. this comment now that maybe the aircraft is at the bottom of the ocean could be an explanation of that. because you would not hear it if the aircraft was under a couple hundred meters of water. it is still speculation. i think its very important that everybody understands its speculation. and we do not know for certain that this event has been caused by the weather. the weather is undoubtedly a related factor to whatever has happened but its a modern a-320 with very good flight management s...

So were going to help narrow this down much more than malaysia flight 370 that weve been drawing some parallels with. but, you know its still, as you mentioned earlier, its still a vast area. >> this is a captain with 20,500 hours. hes flying into some messy weather, obviously, but hes an experienced man. what is going through your mind and what resources do you call possible when you see that on the radar? >> well, i mean you start this process before you even leave your operations center at th...

Submarines. authorities are saying its too early to come to conclusions about what the cause could be. white is a budget airline they have a very good safety record and the airplane involved airbus 320 a very good record. nothing is ruled out, even technical fault or foul play. the real focus is on the weather. finally, to the it is feared there are no survivors of this incident, nervous families of passengers are waiting for any kind of word. sadly, neil, that is a very familiar scene in the re...

Any money back push them out, push them out push them out. what do you make of the whole thing? >> the airlines have had one of the best years they have had in a long, long time. more and more people are flying. keep in mind as we keep going to these crashes. the fact of the matter is 50,000 flights commercial take off and land in this country alone every day and nothing happens. the other thing is this airbus 320, an airbus 330, the france plane from south america to paris went down in a bad st...

Some sort of sophisticated underwater search equipment. the seventh fleet is standing by ready to help. this really is ramping up. a lot of aviation analysts that i speak to say they expect some sort of news some sort of breakthrough in the next 24 to 48 hours. >> certainly will be hoping for that as well. thank you so much for that, andrew. lets bring in cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh whos taking a closer look at the plane that was involved. we look at all aspects when something like thi...

Aircraft. roughly six years old. the delivery date october 2008. now, as far as flight time were told by airbus it has about 23,000 flight hours. its what you would call a work horse for commercial aviation. it is a well-traveled aircraft. the safety record for the a-320, really good when you consider the millions of flights this family of aircraft has made. now, at this point, airbus is very careful with the language it is using. it is not dipping into the arena of speculation. they say they ar...

When youre doing a search and need visibility, rain is the enemy. they could see six inches of rain. the weather will not cooperate over the next two days at least. you get low visibility with clouds and rain and thunderstorms with the winds also make the seas choppy. even just trying to visually spot anything will be difficult for people even on ships in the water. >> all right, bill. thanks very much. anthony roman, lets talk about the plane involved here. what type of plane it was, its track ...

Vanished the pilot asked to climb higher and avoid thunderstorms in that area. but that request was, in fact denied. >> so what in the world could the pilot have done at that moment? >> fox news military analyst tom mcen they are knee has flown in that part of the world and has assessment for us. thank you for joining us. could the pilot have done anything else? what was the role facing this thunderstorm and a denial to change altitude? >> great question, elisabeth. in those particular circumsta...

Altitude and he needed to go from 320 up to flight level 380, then he should have done that. he should have told that to the air traffic control center that he was doing that. he could have turned off a certain heading. but hes got to do whatever he thinks for the safety of the aircraft and the passengers. >> so the one of the questions this morning, what does this aircraft look like? what can it do and handle? the air bus going up. its one of the most popular planes that airbus makes. there is ...

Boeing its a lighter aircraft than some of its predecessors been competitors, and his take was that it is effectived a bit more in turbulence. not to say its any less safe but its less flexible than some of the other aircraft in turbulence. what are your thoughts on that given this was an airbus a-320? >> yeah certainly important to emphasize. of course a very safe aircraft overall. weve all, most of us flown on it numerous times. certainly, physics matters in the end. not to oversimplify but th...