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Coast of borneo. crews have located the wreckage of asia air flight 8501. its about six miles from its flight path where the plane vanished sunday morning. hospitals now bracing for the grim task of identifying the remains of the 162 people on board. no sign of survivors. airasias ceo was quick to reach out to the heartbroken families. tony fernandez tweeting "my heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in qz8501. on behalf of airasia my condolences to all. words cannot express...

In-flight break-up or not a significant one at least. because of the location of the deceased and the location of the where the debris is. its all centrally located. >> when you look at the map and we layer on weather. you look at the flight path and you look at the weather, this tells a story. there were at least three monster thunderstorms. some you know whether experts telling us it would have been difficult to get around it all the way. you see the flight path and the huge red thunderstorms....

Passengers. and richard will have more to say about that as well im sure. >> when you look at those, when you look at the maps of the flight path and the weather, a huge big thunderstorms, one of them i think 50 kilometers wide. >> the pilot has the responsibility to pay attention and to notice where hes flying. he has or she has the absolute control to say to air traffic control -- i need to do this now. now, if they then declare an emergency, air traffic control clears everybody else out of th...

>> lets bring in the aviation consultant to talk about the debris found in the java sea. officials say it is 95% likely to be from the airasia flights. he joins us on the phone from london. as you have said you have flown this route before. you know about the stormy weather conditions that are in that region. now the news that this flight what is most likely the flight has been found five or six miles to the east of the last known location of that flight path. alastair what do you make of it? >>...

Thunderstorms in the region as we get into tuesday and wednesday. so again, this is the volatile area this time of year. december and january. the wettest times thunderstorms were in the flight path. we know that kimberly. heavy rain and severe flooding in the region over the past several weeks. were not just talking about inches of rain but feet of rain. and the conditions when the flight was on its path turbulence certainly lightning a possibility and the strong vertical and horizontal winds, ...

Mentioning not only raid or on board but crews can see the storms develop. this anvil is coming toward the flight path. now we know the pilot asked to go and deviate to the left. he wants to get out in front of this anvil. he does not want to fly through it. so he gets into the headwinds to beat it around the punch and get into his flight path without having this disturbance. but now he runs into this clear air. many pilots will tell you, this is where turbulence can be found and icing as well j...

To determine the last location of the aircraft accurately, or also, they may be able to pick out large, if the aircraft broke up in flight they may be able to pick up large items in the area where it was last seen. i think theyll find it in the next days or weeks, rather than a year im just more optimistic about that. >> anthony, youve had some thoughts on this idea of the weather playing a role here. i know thats been a big part of of the conversation over the last 24 hours or so. whats your ta...

Point of view. after that you will look at the flight path. it will show what altitude the aircraft was at and it will show the sequence of changes of the aircraft where the control positions were and you will also have readings from the pressure altitude and air speed indicator. these are all multiple data points. all of which effect together and give a picture of the flight. the rate of climb. rate of descent. pressure. it is not one single data point or one first thing you look at. you piece ...

Surabaya for a two hour flight. the pilot asked to call and change flight path and 6:17 42 minutes into the flight all contact was lost. no distress call was received. there was severe weather at the time in the area and thunderstorms and lightning. those conditions mean the knight likely encountered turbulence but not even within the thunderstorms but several miles beyond the storm. the pilot of the plane had more than 20,000 hours of flying experience and the plane made more than 13,000 trips....

To 17, not even at all. we love having you here. >> thank you so much. >> let us know what you think about that divide with gq being biased. we will read your e-mail tweets and facebook post coming up. we know the pilot of that missing flight asked to deviate his flight path. but general mcinerny has thrown through that part of the world and says that plane should have never been in the sky. hell explain all that at the top of the hour. ♪ ♪ can you name one branch of government, high schoo...