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Confirm that at least according to this screen grab of air traffic control that the pilot appears to have ascended anyway to about 36,000 feet. that request, though to ascend what does that tell you as an investigator? >> the good news is we have information in this one that there was active communication with air traffic control. theyre identifying that theres something that theyre concerned about. they feel like either its a safety risk or a comfort concern for their passengers and they are as...

Passengers could be at the bottom of the sea. nbcs katy tur is live in singapore where its the evening time. >> they called off the search for the night and theyll resume again tomorrow morning if weather is permitting. its monsoon season here and theyre expecting quite a bit of rain tomorrow so its unclear how that will hurt the search effort. they might have to delay or suspend it for a time. the islands halfway between singapore and indonesia and also in the flight path. theres four countries...

To give you an example of how much energy they pack they go up to 50,000 60,000 feet and they have more energy than the atom bomb did in heiriroshima. this have 100 of my mile vertical winds. its something pilots dont want to tangle with. >> is there something about kind of the way those storms move the way that they -- what they can do to a plane that could help investigators in any way to pinpoint where that plane might have gone down? anything that could give a clue? >> sure there is. three o...

David fallow. we have a leaked screen grab that purportedly showed the flight path of airasia 8501. shows the plane ascending and losing speed. what does that tell us? >> it tells us that the aircraft was obviously ascending, but in that flight position going up into that altitude like that i have two questions -- one is it had not been authorized from the information that we have to make that climb yet. when the air traffic controller went back after clearing the airspace at 38,000 feet, went b...

Floor is reported to be much different than the areas where the air france airplane and the south atlanta went down or where they expect that the malaysian airlines 777 is. thats going to work to the advantage. once they find the debris field, theyll be able to calculate and reverse engineer where the highest likelihood is and theyll put undersea asset an vehicles to search to locate the wreckage. >> all right. thank you very much. hope you didnt miss too much of an important call there. turn ...

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Thunderstorms, which is not an unusual circumstance there. they requested a change in altitude and potentially a change in routing. this is a normal course of events. its beyond that whatever occurred probably occurred quickly as they did not make any additional calls or statements to air traffic control. and i think that the steps that the malaysian government and the singaporean government are taking are the create and prudent once. in the is a well proven airplane. i flew it for six years. i ...

>> the vast majority of people on board are indonesian. there are reports of six foreigners including three south koreans, one malaysian one person from singapore and also one british national. >> the distress calling from flight 8501 before disappearing but look at the satellite before the plane vanished. the pilot wanted to avoid the weather and to veer off the flight path. >> what role do the storms play in this? it is very prominent. none of us are meteorologists but those are ominous lookin...

Of the world, that flight level would be cold enough that icing could be a concern. investigators will have to eventually analyze if icing conditions on the wings came into play along the flight path. as we zoom in, this is the flight and the last known location. you can see the thunderstorms right nearby. obviously weather, if it wasnt the main factor, it was certainly no help along the path of the flight. richard, back to you. >> mark, thank you for that update for us on the weather. here is w...

About gindzing ingfinding a black box right now. >> we say all this as a matter of speculation. for all we know the mane may not have crashed at this point. >> thats true. >> we will find out in the hours and days to come. oliver mcgee thank you very much. now more on the condition that could have contributed to the planes disappearance. >> this is the monsoon season in this area of the world meaning that winds have shifted and they typically see their heaviest rain, thunderstorms and strong w...