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In the world, certainly not novice him we know there are no pings from the black boxes. it doesnt seem like this flight is on land or the surface of the water? is this pointing to the possibility of a stall or breakup in the air? >> at this point the evidence shows it is there is no evidence that shows it is not. so thats the direction theyre going right now. remember the reason we do these scenarios and guess at this is so they can determine where the aircraft might be. you dont know at which d...

Time to communicate. >> unlikely but the first thing you do is fly the aircraft. so if their hands were full trying to fly the aircraft then who knows what was going on what sort of chaos. they may have gotten to the point that they were overwhelmed and the aircraft perhaps got into a deep stall. they were trying to get out of that stall. they dont have time to talk to anyone at that point. >> so many questions but hopefully finding wreckage will help when daylight comes. thank you for your pers...

Understand there are two particular flights that are similar to what may have happened to airasia flight 85 01? >> like airasia, and flight 612 both disappeared in mid flight during cruising altitude, considered the safest part of any flight. its very rare. just 10% of fatal crashes over the past decade occurred while a plane was cruising. the flight that most eerily seems similar to what may have happened to airasia is the pocovo flight in 2012. just like flight 8501. it was climbing at 35,000 ...

There crashed during takeoff and landing. the most risky part of flying. but two other crashes air france flight 447 and plight 612 crashed in mid-air and resemble what may have happened to airasia flight 8501 which was trying to maneuver past a storm. a crash that is more early is flight 612 which crashed in eastern ukraine. in august of 2006 like airasia 8501, 612 was cruising at 35,000 feet when pilots asked to climb over storm clouds that extended to 50,000 feet. investigators say the plane ...

Passenger air likes that include these weather conditions. what youre looking at right now, actually, has to deal with airplane fatalities. this year in 2014 in general in terms of all airplane based fatalities, were looking at 719 deaths. thats the deadliest year since 2010. the average is 517. but if you kind of go back to me real quick weve looked at these last five air passenger flights that have gone down due to weather incidents. and the one that is most strikingly looks like it would be -...

The sky. soon the planes stall warning goes off. he keeps saying repeatedly, whats happening? whats happening? wheres the captain? they call for the captain six times. >> yeah. >> reporter: we dont know why it took captain dubois more than a minute to return to the cockpit. but two sources tell abc news that he was traveling socially with an off-duty air france flight attendant. were the two together? if the pilot is distracted because hes traveling with somebody potentially, isnt that part of t...