Expert advice. We begin with the developing story out of asia where search and rescue mission is underway for a missing passengers plane. An airasia plane was due to land in singapore more than eight hours ago. Missing plane qz8501, missing airbus 322 series. Lost contact with air control over the java sea, from the indonesian city of surabaya. The pilot had asked to change the flight pattern because of bad weather. From 32,000 feet. The a320 took off indonesia juwanda International Airport lost contact with air Traffic Control, 32 minutes later. Ron bosch, thank you so much for speaking with us. Explain how in your it unusual it is for a pilot to request a deviation from course which was the situation in this case . Its a not uncommon event. The aircraft was at its initial cruising altitude of 32,000 feet. The fact that its in the tropics there where theres a lot of buildup of cloud and a lot of thunderstorms in that region. So the actual requesting a deviation from track is not uncom
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