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Call air traffic control and report an issue their number one responsibility is to try to navigate out of it without potentially risking or losing the lives of all the passengers and themselves, is that correct? >> absolutely. and the technology, you spoke about earlier, this is what a glass cockpit looks like, thats makes the information that the pilot needs rather easy to look back. this is an example of the older things. there were 37 of these in the old days in every cockpit and one of these...

Shallow waters of java sea where the plane was last tracked. 5:36 a.m. the air bus 320 took off from surabaya. an hour later, 8501 lost contact with air traffic control van aisha ish -- vanishing on route to singapore. the weather conditions may have contributed to the fate of the plane. >> usually for a strong jetliner to be brought down by turbulence is rare. >> one theory the plane may have stalled as it reached higher altitude. one graph seems to support that. >> what it shows is this partic...

Played a role. it is several scenarios to cause these devastations and tragedies. this particular storm as large as you see it on our planet over portions of indonesia. >> crucial details there. airasia has had a nearly flawless safety record. what about the aircraft itself? we have rene marsh with more on the safety record. >> reporter: this is a newer aircraft. delivery date is october of 2008. as far as flight time we are told by airbus it has 23,000 flight hours. it is what you would call a ...

The ambient pieces of information that lead clues, give clues. >> les, let me ask you, human versus machines they can really fly themselves once theyre up at altitude. so when does the pilot make the decision to override and in autopilot for example to take control themselves and is there any push and pull between what the computer wants a plane to do and what the pilot wants to do? >> its a good question but we strive to work in conjunction with the automation. we have most of the airplanes and...

Surface. an a-320 doesnt fly at 100 miles per hour. even at full flaps. its the air the speed, you have to keep those constant. this plane was going too slowly for that altitude. we have all been if airplane in airplanes when it starts to get bumpy. he bleeds off speed to make that ride better. if this was either pile error, computer error, you get into that vertical instability up and down maybe they have icing on them as well all of a sudden were talking about not one thing will bring down any...

Him on social media saying dad, please come home. i still need you. the family recently suffered a loss. the captains younger brother died of diabetes just days ago. the captains father told the bbc, i want my son to come back alive. the captain was a veteran of the skies, with more than 20,000 flying hours. of which 6100 hours were with airasia on the airbus 320. slightly more flying time than pilot chesley sullenberger who executed a water landing in new york with 155 passengers and crew on bo...

Building. its between pilot training between theational were 81 gradeing our atc, air traffic control system. were doing a lot of things that make this even safer. >> the accessible. if you look at the pictures here now, everyone can fly. that is written on the side of these aircraft. we talk about the fast growing part of the world, where you can get a 320 and fly thousands of thousands of people would not have had that access. it is very very difficult when something like this happens for the ...

Media speak, there is a disconnect perhaps with what reporting crews are being told and what the families are being told behind the closed doors of that briefing room. obviously, in a situation where you have a missing aircraft going on more than 24 hours now, and a search under way, there arent going to be all the answers that are available. but i think what families expect and what everybody expects in a situation like this is that information be communicated responsibly as it comes in but wit...

It has now been 45 hours since airasia flight 8501 disappeared shortly after the pilot requested a flight plan change due to bad weather. the search area is now expanding as is interest in the captain at the planes controls during the final moments of this flight. lets bring in cnn joe johns. joe you have been looking into the pilot of this missing flight. what have you leernds. >> hes about 53 years old. a father. as is common in indonesia hes known by only one name. this pilot of the missing a...

To get it to slow down when in fact they were already slow. that whats caused the deep stall situation where the power on aircraft is moving through the air yet not enough over the wings to s tos to keep it flying. >> they were different planes though. >> both aircraft were of the same type certificate data sheet. this is the basis faa gives manufacture to issue. air bus 330 and 320 were manufactured on the same type certificate so subjective to the same testing levels and performance informatio...