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Marseilles didnt seem so far away with an extraordinary landing capacity, a large airport with long runways. how does that equate? >> true. but they may have been very focused on the terrain and trying to be situationally aware of how close they were -- in other words, you cant just dial in marseilles and have the airplane head for it. youve got to know where the threat of terrain is. and that airport may not -- it may have had weather issues possibly. thats on the computer as an alternate, im c...

Obliterated, dislocated was the word used in translation, that effectively there is just nothing left of this plane. and of course the sighting of human remains but no sightings so far of any survivors. and the announcement early that it is unlikely there will be any survivors. what you are seeing on your screen right now is exactly what it would look like in the united states if there were a crash. there would be a staging area that looked exactly like this, with responders and tents and emerge...

Horizontally and vertical. so thats what creates that turbulence thats so extreme with these storms. here is a look at the satellite imagery. you can see a lot of cloud cover, a lot of storms out there. one storm in particular that was very near the plane happened to go up and collapse very quickly. so that will be something else that meteorologists will have to consider. otherwise taking a look at the forecast more showers and thunderstorm activity. it shouldnt be as bad as what we saw early on...

Charge in perth, lieutenant chandler. we know weather. how would you describe how its going? >> crews are out doing what they are supposed to do, like you said. we were challenged yesterday with a low cloud ceiling. >> i think a lot of people wonder just exactly how you conduct a search. we know it takes four hours to get out there and you have two hours to certainly the area. what exactly do you look for? >> anything out of the ordinary. most generally looking at the ocean, rather monotonous an...

>> the live pictures from the chopper continue to come in. on the right-hand side of the screen thats the tornado as it was developing. it was just before 4:00 this afternoon eastern time. so 3:00 there. we have lots of monitors coming in from all over the country and we were watching as this tornado just a little sliver of a thing came down out of a cloud and if you are a floridian and you live in the south. its the kind of thing you might see come down over the gulf of mexico and just sort of ...

And that very significant statement was lost on air traffic control. >> at 9:22, the flight is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk, and strong wind sheer, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. >> nowhere did the first officer ever use the word emergency. if that word had been used, they would have given them immediate priority to get them on the ground. >> climb, maintain 3,000. >> negative, sir. we just -- were okay at...

Right now with a lot of heavy snow and it is hard to move around. imagine a plane trying to gather speed for a takeoff there the other problem is this. well ask my photographer to pan out to the top of the ibm and trump tower. you have a low cloud ceiling you cant see the top of the trump tower in chicago. that low cloud ceiling means at a lot of airports, particularly ohare, we have ground stops going on. that is major headache for any kind of traveler, until that lifts then you cant even move ...

First officer, who was the pilot handling the radios, told them they could no longer make boston. and that very significant statement was lost on air traffic control. >> at 9:22 pm, avianca flight 52 is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk and strong wind shear, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. >> nowhere did the first officer ever use the word emergency. if that word had been used, they would have given them immedi...

Their alternate was, which was filed for boston action but the first officer, who was the pilot handling the radios, told them they could no longer make boston. that very significant statement was also lost on air traffic kr08. >> at 9:212 p.m., the flight is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk and strong wind shear, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. >> nowhere did the first officer ever use the word emergency. if t...

Was lost on air traffic control. >> at 9:22 p.m., avianca flight 52 is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk and strong wind shear, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. >> nowhere did the first ever use the word "emergency." if that word had been used, there would have been immediate priority to get them on the ground. >> at 9:34 p.m., flight 52 runs out of fuel. the engines flame out. the passenger remembers the horribl...