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Maybe lightning. its also cold at 32,000 feet. these could contain rain and ice. chad tell us about these clouds and why the pilot probably wasnt able to fly over them. >> you know they were 50,000 feet tall at times. these tops overshooting tops going up very rapidly. thats the turbulence you would feel when flying through one of these. how do you fly around something thats 150 miles wide to the left and right? they just thought they could find something in between. thats where they were. this ...

Or are they just out there looking in the whole area? >> caller: well at this point they havent given us an indication that theyve narrowed it down. you would hope that they are managing to do that as more information comes in. but of course they have a fairly -- information as it is. its very difficult. this he need as many ships and aircraft looking at the surface of the water as possible. and theyre not just looking at the water. the flight path itself did go over water for the vast majority ...

The flight went missing. the flight took off from surabaya. the blue line on this map shows you the approximate flight path. a cluster of thunderstorms off to the east. we dont think that caused a problem. there was a line of storms east to west across the flight path. that is when the pilot when it approached that line of storms asked to request to go from 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet. the plane itself has a radar. the pilot can see where the worst of the heavy rain echoes are or where the hail i...

No distress call was received. there were severe weather at the time in the area including high winds, thunderstorms and lightning. those conditions mean the flight likely encountered severe turbulence not just within the thunderstorm but possibly for several miles beyond the storm. airline officials say the pilot of the plane had more than 20,000 hours of flying experience and the plane made more than 13,000 trips. lets go to bill karins for an expanded look at what role weather played in all o...

5017 it disappeared after changing its flight path because of bad weather t. disappearance of airasia flight 8501 is the fourth commercial plane disaster of 2014 t. former managing director of the ntsb says the skies are still safe. >> i think when you look at the overall pick there may have been 600 fatalities in aviation. that is a low rate when you compare it to the massive numbers of people flying today. >> reporter: to that point, aviation expanded at an extraordinary rate. more people are ...

Lets find the aircraft and then do the proper investigation. >> for more now on how the weather could have played a role in this incident meteorologist pedram joins us. >> the storm developed just literally out of the blue in the path of this night and eventually collapsed on itself within a matter of a few hours. 20,000 to 30,000 feet in height. this particular storm got up to 53,000 feet in the vicinity of the flight path. the pilot asked to go from 32,000 to 38,000 feet. of course you dont wa...

Typically when they see the worst of the rain and the wind and the thunderstorms. as crews search the region, much improved conditions. looking ahead throughout today and into tomorrow and wednesday were going to start to see the thunderstorms crop up again on tuesday. they really need to get the search in within the next 6 to 12 hours. as we get into midweek, the thunderstorms start again. here are the weather conditions, what we know right now. december and january, the wettest time of the yea...

But thats unconfirmed. its far from the flight path but its unclear if that will actually be any debris but we also heard there were oil slicks tested but this area in the java sea is highly trafficked by oil tankers so that could have been anything. what we learned from mh-370 is you end up spotting a lot of debris and seeing oil slicks things you think might be involved that later turn out not to be involved in the plane crash so theres a lot of caution you need to take with initial reports. w...

It bad enough to say ground flights in this country or do we just not know? >> that the point, poppy, we dont know. the network is good enough in that area of the world where we know there was thunderstorms in the region and we know that thunderstorms could have impacted, you know the flight path but we dont even have enough data to know how severe that storm was. i cant say whether flights could have been or should have been grounded. i think thats really why, you know in the end, you know we l...

Sea, and hopefully, we hope for the sake of all of the families that we will get word if indeed we do have wreckage here because certainly the skies are clearing, and the seas arent that choppy, this region, were not dealing with great big waves here. so lets look at the weather conditions, heavy rain, severe flooding in this region in the last month or so were not just talking about inches were talking about feet of rain. it is their monsoon season december and january is the wettest time of ye...