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Thunderstorms as the reason for climbing altitude. this is a look at the radar picture at the time the plane disappeared. rick reichmuth is joining us. rick, do we have any idea number one, obviously what role weather plays? that may be early, but give us a sense of what it was like over the java sea 12 hours ago. >> the first thing you want to do is rule weather out. and question not rule weather out in this one. there was a lot of weather going on. the point as to where the plane was flying ov...

The time this took off. right there singapore where he was going to flying primarily flying over the ocean into the java sea. a little island of land here but open ocean with all the storms going on, hard to imagine, guys that weather did not play a part in this. you dont know if there was any other kind of malfunction with the aircraft, but certainly at this point weather was a factor in somewhere along the flight path of this plane. >> obviously looking at the weather plane, searchers are havi...

Urgency in this particular situation because there werent any americans on the flight. it is a smaller asia based airline. american companies have to deal with the faa to determine some of the technical issues. but we should point out that the u.s. will most likely provide financial aid and will aid in the search efforts as the u.s. did in search for mh-370. the white house joined call to track each and every flight throughout the flight path which didnt happen of course in, this case. the inter...

>> well, lets show you a cross section. i even have questions for the experts because im not a pilot. im not an aviation expert. this is a cross section. now, earlier satellite pictures were showing a pretty large thunderstorm. a thunder head and anval cloud that was moving into the flight path. we dont know. we can only assume maybe this is the one that caused some turbulence. this is not to scale. the plane would be much smaller. >> sure. >> again, assume 32,000 feet. has an issue. calls to as...

Of a problem for aircraft. modern aircraft can withstand lightning quite well. but turbulence icing and hail if theyre severe can affect the flight path the control of the aircraft and, indeed its ability to fly at all. so you know flying through a big thunderstorm in that area is not something i personally would ever like to do. i have flown two or three times through thunderstorms, not intentionally, of course but it is it does provide a horrible ride although obviously, i survived the experie...

Before alastair rosenshine. he joins us on the phone from sussex, england. what can you tell us about this flight path? youve taken it. whats your perspective on where this plane was going and the type of weather that it encounter and that planes often encounter in this region of the world? >> caller: yes, well i have to over this particular route on numerous cases all hoe not to surabaya itself. in this area you have an intertropical convergence which is a pattern of area that circles the entir...

This is a regional effort. we know that indonesia, seven ships tworks helicopters. trying to find out what has happened to the plane. >> they headed about 12 hours of daylight to search and did do some looking and found nothing, correct? >> thats right. the ships are still in the area. they dont come back to land. they say that the area theyre looking at is broad. theyre not just looking in the water. the flight path is all the way up to singapore other water. there will be some areas where they...

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Been looking in the java sea before the search was suspended. airasia said earlier the flight had requested what it described as a deviation from the flight path due to bad weather. the transport ministry reported the pilot asked permission to climb 38,000 feet to avoid thick cloud. no distress calls have been issued by the crew. they went to surabaya and singapore airports for news on the plane. the budget airlines has never lost a plane before but the national carrier malaysia airlines has los...

In thunderstorms and as ive mentioned, pilots are trained to deal with these thunderstorms, specifically monsoon takeoffs, monsoon landings because there is mondsoonal region here. we get that moist air that begins to lift until it becomes super saturated. it cant lift any longer. it becomes too heavy. then it slides down the thunderstorm. so you get the constant lifting and sinking. thats what we know as the turbulence. the flight was at about 32,000 feet when they request a diversion to go to ...