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Technology used to track an aircraft thats lost. >> the pilot apparently, requested to deviate from his original flight path. he wanted to turn because of weather. he also wanted to climb from 32,000 up to 38000 feet, i believe. he was denied permission to do that. now, in my limited flying career, i was told dont let the guy on the ground fly your airplane. if you need to deviate deviate and deal with the consequences later. >> thats the first lesson in piloting. if the air traffic controller i...

10:00 on the west. a new development for air asia 8501. a news official said indonesias government formally asked the u.s. to help in the search but hope is fading nearly 48 hours after the air asia jet liner vanished with the passengers and crew on board. the search and rescue chief said flight 8501 is likely at the bottom of the sea. this man said he is hoping for a miracle. he is one of dozens of families that are desperately waiting for answers. we have the latest from the ground in singapor...

>> ana, it would impact. certainly the investigation. if not the fate. even in the case of mh-370 which is clearly the bigger mystery still even after all these months. would real-time tracking have helped those people? hard to say. probably not. but certainly we would have a better idea of where that aircraft ended up. where in the sea in all likelihood. more of a help for investigation. but certainly no question every bit of data you know when youre dealing with seconds would be helpful. and, ...

Being used and look at the procedures and protocols that are followed by the pilots which are the history of this airline is fantastic. >> whats your instinct on this flight on the disappearance of this flight? >> i think theres going to be some question with regard to the airasia captains decision making. if you examine the radar plots relative to all of the other aircraft that were in the sky in that direct vicinity youll find that the majority dozens of aircraft are actually paralleling the s...

The flight path but so far they havent spotted anything concrete. four countries are assisting in this search. malaysia singapore, indonesia is leading it and australia has given assistance. they have set an ap3c. they searched all day yesterday and all day today and weather does seem like a factor. quite cloudy here today so visibility is less than ideal. tomorrow its supposed to rain and supposed to rain for the next few days. its monsoon season out here and the wet weather will contribute to ...

Same flight path in that area that didnt have the same troubles so its a lot of -- theres a lot of questions either now exactly what went wrong. remember they have the black boxes and the pings, you right member that how they were trying to triangulate the pings. they have that at their disposal here but only after 24 or 48 hours which is how long its been right now. its not quite the time that theyre going to start looking for that. theyll do a search and rescue operation, search mostly on the ...

5:45 local time. activity is picking up. heres jakarta. singapore to the north. surabaya. to give most of you the idea of the type of tropics this is. bali the resort off to the east there. were seeing activity. all we know and its very little and we just have to assume going on the indications of satellite. this is infrared. the brighter colors are the higher, colder cloud tops. this is our flight path and when we lost communication. we do know the storm is moving toward the flight path. this i...

During the monsoon, but this particular time was perhaps the perfect storm. >> yeah. it lined up with the flight path. but you take a look at this region, around the equator, and of course air france 447 back in 2009 in a similar sort of region as far as being close to the equator, an intertropical convergence zone. its a fancy term for where the winds join together. you take an average thunderstorm which typically goes to 30,000 feet. this particular one which was within 8 nautical miles of the...

Of the flight path. the pilot had to figure out a way to go through it. thats why he radioed and said lets change the course a little bit lets go to 38,000. lets avoid the worst and thats with the communication was lost. what happened to the pilot when it was in those thunderstorms? we may not know exactly until we get the black box. here is a view of the thunderstorm. the top of the storm to 50,000 feet. here is where the flight area 34,000 feet was flying. the plane could not fly over that. mo...

They wanted to avoid bad weather. there were many other planes and none of them having problems with the weather and all landing safely. there is a lot of questions why this plane had so much trouble. they are 7ing in the area around the islands, halfway between singapore and indonesia in that flight path. they are hoping to be able to do quite a bit of searching tomorrow, but rain is expected. it is monsoon season here and they are worried it might hamper the effort to a degree tomorrow. indone...