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All contact was lost with the airplane. most of that planes flight path took it over open water. and if youre looking at the map here that green country, where you see the plane was, not really over but from the perspective of the map, it looks like it. thats malaysia. of so this is the region that has seen two air disasters in this past year. that right there shows where this plane was when air traffic control lost contact with the airplane over the java sea. we know that there are c-130s there...

In about seven hours. that jet liner had been flying 32,000 feet when the pilot requested to go up and fly at 38,000 feet to avoid a cloud. numerous showers and hail covered the missing jets flight path. aviation analyst julian bray says it was likely for the pilot impossible to avoid the storms. >> they divert the storm and carry on and it will delay the passengers somewhat but the ride will be a lot easier. this seems to be a series of red ploch blotches on the map. whichever way the pilot wen...

Path there. some three minutes later no word was heard from again. four minutes later has dropped off the radar. >> good morning, alex. well, i think right now based on early information, its evident that the crew was monitoring the weather ahead of them along their flight path. they felt that they needed to not only deviate to the west to apparently circumvent navigate the weather but asked for a climb to get over the top of it. this time of year its been reported the last week or so with the m...

Hey there, everyone its high noon here in the east 9:00 a.m. out west. welcome to weekends with alex witt. the breaking news weve been following all day. an air asia plane with 162 people onboard is missing. lost contact with ground control shortly after taking off from indonesia. was on its way to singapore. both countries have launched a joint search and rescue operation. however, that search has been suspended until daylight now. the state department says the u.s. stands ready to assist with ...

Early sunday morning just after 6:00 a.m. missing for more than 12 hours. an airbus vanishing halfway through the flight moments after bad weather conditions prompted the pilot of the plane to ask for a deviation of the flight path. big thunderstorms up to 50,000 feet. what does that mean? we have a commercial pilot here with us. robert, thank you for joining us. when you hear that there are thunderstorms 50,000 feet and the pilot obviously looking at the weather radar realizes he has to go arou...

Well zoom in. ill show you where we got last information from this flight earlier this morning. this is the region. we watch the satellite presentation here. the data is within three hours so were missing data here but you can see there clearly was thunderstorms in the region when you look at the satellite presentation. looking ahead for the search crews right now search has halted because of bad weather in this area. there is the depatrture conditions remains very calm for the next few days. bu...

>> its the indonesian search and rescue. they say they have some ships and two helicopters, and as soon as day break starts they will resume that search. >> they have said its a broad location for the area they are looking at and its very broad. now, they go to basically divide this area into four different sections. they say they also may search on land, even though the flight path was mainly over water. there are some islands in this area. they believe that the last contact was between two par...

Its now 4:41 in the morning in indonesia. still dark. the sun comes up in about 40 minutes from now. ships continue to scour the waters for any signs of airasia airliner the plane that vanished with 162 people on board. search planes are expected to begin flying again in less than two hours. airasia flight 8501 lost contact with air traffic control shortly after the pilot requested a new flight path to try to avoid thunderstorms. meanwhile hundreds of relatives have gathered at airports in indon...

Both countries have launched a joint search and rescue operation. but the air search has been suspended now until daylight. the state department says the u.s. stands ready to assist with the search for that missing plane. air asia has released a statement saying the crew of the flight 8501. theyd asked for a change in flight path to avoid rough weather shortly after that request. controllers lost contact with the plane. the flight had been scheduled to land in singapore at 8:30 a.m. local time. ...

Experience. did they have a good amount of experience? >> well, it is sufficient experience. it isnt the most experience in the world. it isnt the least experience in the world. generally for a first officer 2,000, 2500 hours in this type of aircraft would be a little low for u.s. carriers, but certainly not unsafe. >> all right. anthony, thank you so much for your information. you have been with us throughout the evening helping to update viewers on the story. we appreciate that. we want you to...