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Everybodys role. >> the co-pilot is flying the plane and is about five miles behind a 747 on its way to japan. >> were climbing to 5,000. >> since the airbus is climbing faster than the plane in front of it, flight 587 quickly climbs into the 747s wake, causing the american airlines plane to experience turbulence. this, in itself, is not uncommon. >> airplane wakes are common to the wakes made by boats or ships. it is a displacement as the vehicle passes through this fluid, in one case water, in...

There is a level of risk aversion that is happening throughout some of these conflict zones. the men and women in the cia are trained for this type of operation. and we dont have individuals on the ground. and so in order to fix that problem, we have to operate from kuwait, from turkey, from iraq. and it requires us to be a lot aggressive. so the president needs to take the gloves off when it comes to our men and women in the cia. ambassador ryan crocker probably one of the best things the forei...

>> bad weather is such a factor that they have to consider it. we know this flight passed through an immense band of bad weather. first, could lightning have taken this plane down? not likely. modern airliners are made so that it will be ejected off the wing tips or tail. and even if it penetrates to the interior, very improbable that it would disable enough electronics to bring the plane down. second possibility, what is the storm is so immense and so big that it produces such turbulence and th...

Because we know this plane passed through an immense band of terrible weather. so here are three key questions people have been asking us. first, could lightning have taken this plan down? not likely. modern airliners are designed so that if theyre hit by lightning, that lightning will channel along the metal skin of the plane be ejected off the wing tips or the tail, and even if it penetrates to the interior of the plane, very improbable that it would disable enough pieces of electronics to bri...

Weather was bad off indonesias coast. but was it bad enough to play a role in flight 8501s disappearance? cnns tom foreman has that. >> reporter: don, investigators have to consider the possibility that weather brought this plane down. because it went through such a huge band of terrible storms out there. and here are the three key questions viewers keep asking us. first, could lightning have done this? the answer is not likely. modern aircraft are designed so they can be hit by lightning, the l...

Flight. an official says the debris was spotted off the coast of indonesia. the plane has been missing since sunday. the airline says its too early to blame weather for the disappearance. our tom foreman looks at the major weather factors at play. >> bad weather is so often a factor in aviation accidents, they have to consider it. here are three key questions people have been asking us. first, could lightning have taken this plane down? not likely. modern airliners are made so that it will be ej...

And they have to talk about weather because weather is so often a factor. look at the flight path of this plane as it took off and flew less than an hour and look at the weather system it was flying through as it went missing there. tremendous, horrible storms under way. why could that make such a difference? lets blow it up and look at it closer. if you think about this plane flying through a storm system a big storm system out here one of the first things many people ask about is lightning. co...

What manufacturer they had installed, its a sophisticated piece of equipment of the and you monitor that situation. youre looking at green and red, yellow all indicating the severity of the particular storm. and youre still doing your very best to avoid it completely if not, you sometimes have to pick your way through individual cells. ? and whats your worry when youre up there and you are seeing a large thunderstorm? obviously you try to go around it or in the case here it looks like he tried t...

The wheels. >> not really. you are going to have trouble judging your height here. you are not going to have the a all tim teres. they are not going to be accurate. a stable dissent. >> thats critical here, carol. you want stability. you are coming up to an ocean. you cant control the waves but at least you can control the aircraft. you must keep the wing tips and the engines from catching on a wave, because that will force the plane to twist like that, tumble and break apart. you want to do jus...

The current. other items, such as the aircraft tail or wing tips, will be semi submerged and theyre propelled mainly by the current and not so much by the wind. so the elapsed time has allowed debris to spread over a vast area. >> so this could really wind up anywhere. lets say they find some wreckage from the plane in the indian ocean. what do they do next to start deep water searches? is because the challenges will be enormous, especially if theyre looking for those black boxes, the flight dat...