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Surface of the sea, then they would begin the process sending divers down. identifying the wreckage, then sending divers down. you know, they also have to deal with local customs in terms of how they handle and treat the deceased and what the customs are there in indonesia will be important to how they determine that theyre going to remove and take care of the victims who were inside the fuselage assuming theyre still inside the fuselage and at the bottom of the sea. then begins the task of sear...

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...

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On the whereabouts of the plane. the search for the missing aircraft has been suspended at the moment because of the bad weather here in southeast asia. the region has been hard hit by heavy rains in recent days, causing severe flooding in nearby malaysia. indonesia air traffic control lost contact with the plane over 12 hours ago. the airasia flight was on its way from surabaya indonesia to singapore. it had 167 people on board. the vast majority of those were indonesian. the airbus 320 was on ...

At 8 miles a minute. can you move away from a cell very quickly. twice nice if you could continue the climb to possibly get out of existing turbulence right now or to improve the visibility. but climbing or descending is less of a tool to get away from a cell than it is to turn left or right. >> yeah. john, how bad does it have to be to divert? give us a sense of when a pilot knows they have to change direction? how bad does the storm have to be? >> it doesnt sister to be bad at all. if i believ...

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The flight path. we know that the pilot had asked to reroute because of those strong thunderstorms along the way. so weather a big part of this story. alex, back to you. >> thank you so much for that. so heres what we know about the plane itself. it is an airbus a320 200 series delivered six years ago back in 2008. the plane had about 23,000 flight hours in some 13,600 flights. now the a-320 itself is a short to medium range jet. has a range of about 3700 miles. lets bring in two aviation expert...

Correction. that was denied due to air traffic in the vicinity. authorities think they believe the plane might have crashed into the java sea. that the plane might be at the bottom of that sea. no fewer than 30 ships, 15 aircraft from four different countries are involved in the search. theyre checking out reports of objects seen on the surface of the water. it is believed theyre not related to crash but theyre checking out that oil slick. united states, by the way one other country offering ass...

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That they are on radar, it really helps them start to search there. what we know is that the airplane has not shown up anywhere yet and thats really as you said we cant speculate. thats all we know for sure right now. >> yeah. we do know that because of darkness, we believe, all of the aerial operations that are being conducted by both malaysia and singapore, singapore reached out and said were offering our assistance and malaysia has taken it. the navy has launched ships. some ships are in the ...