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Weve seen it in smaller aircrafts. the wings come off,-- when youre trying to regain control -- we just had one of these events this past july with an md-80 aircraft they got into thunderstorm activity and they lost control of the airplane. during the recovery they went into a big corkscrew turn and ended up crashing into the ground. the airplane stayed together. its just that the thunderstorm activity is what put them in an out of control situation. >> once again this year we have another malay...

If necessary, they have emergency authority to do that. thats very rarely necessary, but the pilots will turn to whateveroff course they need to to provide a separation. usually 20 to 30 miles is common from the cell itself and the airplane. and you do this for several reasons. one, you dont want to have hail, the potential for hail but also to give the best rides to the passengers, you decrease the likelihood of turbulence. these are absolutely normal events normal steps for the pilots. what ha...

Appropriate definitions. then and only then can we figure out if in fact a loss of contact in the literal sense occurred. if in fact the airplane came down rapidly, the data block will only show the flight number, the transponder code and speed. the last information that ive heard said that that is what occurred. the altitude block was not visible. that was because of the rate of change meaning the airplane was descending very rapidly. that also indicates something is amiss, but thats where the ...

Its the most modern technology to look into a thunderstorm and determine where the severe areas you cannot go are and where the areas are where its just potentially light precipitation, where you can go safely. >> right. what we do know is the pilot asked to go higher. air traffic control said no you can divert to the left but you cant go any higher. it was three, four minutes after that that they lost contact with the plane. thats a very short period of time. what does that tell you? >> well so...

If thats the case in an aircraft that normally does 500 knots, this air bus 8320 that means at least it tells me im not an investigator that either they were pushing some -- facing some heavy head winds over 100 knots or the pilot had slowed the aircraft down because he anticipated a problem and wanted to give himselves a few more seconds to divert away from what was on the radar screen. im coming to a number of different conclusions but this does make sense? doesnt it? >> absolutely. or could b...

Slides, and caught on camera in a rare tornado in south l.a., look at this. small ef 0 ripping apart roofs and downing trees with winds reaching up to 8 a miles per hour. no one was hurt. l.a. ransz flooding the l.a. river. man and his wife had to be rescued. they are expected to be okay. the clean up begins, a massive mudslide in cam rio springs damaging at least 13 homes. those are your headlines. >> i i had an out-of-television experience leaving in the midst of this whole big storm and watch...

This area is known as the garb n area and there is a lot of debris on there. but we have to think they are working on a degree of certainty based on the images. it doesnt change the other facts we have in terms of the transponder going off and the western bank the plane took after the all right, good night signal. what do you think at this point, robe robert? >> the story in the back of my mind is how in the world did an air plane heading north end up in the southern indian ocean? i just cant im...

Theyre saying we have experts on it and this air plane went down in the southern corridor. we dont know where it is. >> does its location suggest anything to you about motivation? cant figure out anything. >> i think at this point it would just be -- its way off the table to suggest pilot suicide. we can take that off the table. no one is going to commit suicide and continue to fly the plaintiff for seven and a half hours. but its still open to possible sabotage by terrorists, or i hate to say t...

There any chance of this airport or this airplane could have landed and that these people are okay? >> well, i originally theory rised a few days ago on facebook in my post that it could have been either intentional or unintentional ditching. or it could have been flown to it a remote location. however, it is hard to throw a tarp on the 777 hiding in the corner of an airport without some other prying eyes looking at it and raising some some questions what is this? is es. elaborate scenario to pu...

Sophistication in executing it and the lanning and all of that where do you think it actually went awry. before the show you think it crashed somewhere on the ocean or jungle. >> not on wheels he ran out of gas seven days ago, he is either on land crashed somewhere or he is in the ocean. if he were intending to do something else, hostage-taking, cargo looting, then its on land somewhere. i would need 4,000 feet of an unprepared surface to put that airplane in. its never coming out again. thats a...