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It had 162 passengers and crew on board. vast majority of those on the plane were indonesian. the airbus was about an hour into its three-hour journey to singapore when it disappeared from radar screens. indonesian search and rescue planes have been looking in an area of the java sea before the air search was suspended. airasia said earlier flight xz8501 had requested what it described as a deviation from the flight path due to bad weather. indonesias transport ministry says the pilot asked perm...

Suspended the search right now because of inclement weather. looks like its going to be that way for the next several hours. this is our satellite presentation. you see the colder cloud tops indicating the stronger thunderstorms. this is their monsoon season whchlt they see a shift in wind direction and more commonly more rain and wind and thunderstorms. so already a volatile area. this is a very tropical region. there is the flight path there. and where we have those colder cloud tops is where ...

Traffic control and asked for a change in altitude. they asked to go to 38,000 feet to avoid some weather. that was the last air traffic control heard from this flight. now indonesian officials are preparing people from the worse saying that from their best educated guess it looks like this plane could be at the bottom of the java sea. thats unconfirmed but again theyre preparing people for the worst. back to you. >> thank you, we now go to nbc meteorologist bill karins for more on how the weath...

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Plane called the tower and asked to go to 38,000 feet. they wanted to avoid weather in the area because there was a line of thunderstorms. there were a lot of other flights that were flying that same flight path in that area who didnt have the same trouble. so its a lot of -- there are a lot of questions right now exactly what went wrong. they have those black boxes and those pings on the black boxes you may remember from mh-370 to try to figure out where the plane could be under the water in th...

Control the plane during high tesh lens. just 10% of crashes since 2004 occurred while a plane was in mid flight. >> there were huge thunderstorms a t the time the flight vanished and here you can actually see the storm activity take a look at this. in the area during the time the plane lost radar contact and then disappeared. this is satellite picture. we know the pilot even asked to change his flight path because of all this severe weather in the area. joining me now is aviation analyst and fa...

There was a line of storms a thin line but east to west right across the flight path. thats what the pilot was looking at on the approach on the route. all of these planes have radar on the nose of the plane so the pilot can see how much rain or where the thunderstorms are and try to fly around them. this line of storms was east to west so the pilot knew he had to punch through them at some point. thats why he requested to go from 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet and also to adjust the course to go in...

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