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Mark? >> good afternoon, richard. we continue to follow the weather situation surrounding that air asia flight 8501. on the screen now is the flight path through the java are sea from indonesia up toward singapore was the planned path. it does appear the weather played a big role in what happened with this flight. the colors you see on the screen. this is our enhanced infrared imagery. looking down on the earth at the clouds, the brighter thor colors, yellows and reds indicating the higher cloud...

Sunday morning, local time. the plane was flying from surabaya indonesia city there in the south. it left at 5:30 in the morning, as we were just discussing with our guest, heavy thunderstorms were in this area at the time the airplane lost contact with air traffic controllers. the pilot had just recently asked to change altitude for a die diversion in the route because of weather in the area. soon after that request was made, all contact was lost with the plane. that graphic is showing you abou...

Following this breaking news. flight 8501 lost contact with ground control shortly after taking off from indonesia on its way to singapore. both countries have launched a search and rescue operation, but the air search has been suspended until daylight. air asia released a statement saying the crew of flight 8501 had asked for a change in flight path to avoid the rough weather. from desegregation to ending dont ask, dont tell. the military has long been an agent of change in our country. perha...

Operation. the plane has been missing for 13 hours now. with nightfall, the air search has been suspended, though boats are still in the water and looking for any clues as to where this plane has gone. airasia for its part has released a statement saying that the crew asked for a change in flight path. they wanted to go from 32,000 feet up to 38,000 feet saying this was to avoid some rough weather in their path. were going to take you back live here and give you a look at the airport singapore. ...

Theyre built in this way. the critical part is when an aircraft is in these sort of weather conditions, does the pilot react? does the pilot react correct sfli thats critical as well. to your question, you know, does weather play a role? were still waiting to see. when you look at the satellite imagery at this point, there is no doubt that this aircraft did go through some very bad weather. >> renee marsh joining us by phone, aviation correspond in washington, renee, stay by the phone. well get ...

Contact with air control. we know the flight path should have been less than two hours in indonesia to singapore but we do know that it was supposed to land in singapore 8:20 a.m. thats about five hours ago now. of course as time goes on, concerns are increasing for what exactly has happened to that plane. we understand from the news agency, they believe 155 people were onboard. its not clear whether its just passengers or crew as well. so it could be as many as 162 people onboard. we have got a...

Change in flight path. they wanted to go up to 38,000 feet in order to avoid rough weather that was directly in their path. were getting word from the weather channel that there was a 50,000 thunderstorm cluster right near the flight path. that is the java sea under which the plane graphic is shown. they lost contact over the java sea. theres no indication, though specifically that weather had anything to do with it. were getting a live report from a help center at the airport that has been set ...

Indonesia. hello again, im natalie allen from cnn center. search and rescue operations under way right now for a missing air asia airplane. flight 8501 was en route from the indonesian city of surabaya. there it is at the bottom of your screen. to singapore. just a two-hour flight. when it lost contact with air traffic control early sunday morning. most of the planes flight path took it over open water. there were were told heavy thunderstorms in the area and the pilot asked to change the route ...

I imagine its closing in on midnight there, i assume its starting to trickle down there, its less busy now? >> thats right, it is its thinning out around this press center too, the crisis center it is thinning out as well. but airasia has been very active in getting information out, brian, so people are still waiting here waiting to get perhaps more information. but as we have been reporting, the actual aerial search has been called off. we understand there are ships in the vicinity where they t...

Weather. they have to ask for a diverse or ask for something off route before they can do that. in an emergency, they can go off route and they are likely to go around rather than above for the reasons that you brought up. >> its interesting that we are getting reports they tried to climb to that level. who knows at this point exactly what was happening. >> i would be cautious about that because standard operating procedure for pilots is to go around systems for the very reason that you articula...