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Information from the air line. lets go to derek van dam whos standing by with much more as weather comes into focus in this story and we hear that the pilot requested a deviation in the route because of weather. >> thats right. pilots are trained to fly around thunder storms. convective thunder storms which we typically get this time of year across the java sea. i now you heard richard quest talk about tush rbulence and hot does not take down airplanes. it is often associated with pilot error an...

Have been there at all, and so we have ask about the decision-making process, because a lot of the u.s. carriers and lufthansa and other ss have is a fine in-house meteor ologyology departments and they try to keep the pilots out of that weather. >> you think most of the time it is pilot era and not outside forces so to speak? >> well, akccording to the national transportation safety board and i have crunched the numbers, 3/4ths of the time the chief causal eraror is pilot error. and you could h...

Is that across the board internationally? >> thats across the board internationally. even that is a little bit too close. and most pilots will tell you they want to stay further away from the thunderstorms. thunderstorms are probably the most dangerous thing that we routinely have to fly around. >> so in asking to deviate from its normal path was he trying to fly above the thunderstorms or what was going on here? >> asking to go from 32000 to 38,000 feet, thunderstorms can routinely go above tha...

General lloyd austin, unless he was 100% sure of his facts. hes saying the statement went out in his name, hes saying isis did not bring it down, they did not shoot it down. we double-checked and triple checked, other military sources saying the syrian regime did not shoot it down. the question is what did bring this plane down? was it a mechanical error? was it some type of pilot error situation? was there something else that brought it down? how would they know? theres only so many ways they w...

Woman. >> reporter: her bravery touching the nation. a donation website raising more than a quarter million dollars so far. maries husband posting, "no words can describe the enormity of our loss and sadness. the outpouring of support has been overwhelming." the ntsb focused on possible pilot error. the plane just not moving fast enough to fly and theres no evidence of a bird strike in those engines. jim avila, abc news, gaithersburg, maryland. breaking news from south africa. a judge has rule...

Administration is not pushing as hard as we ought to be particularly with putin. whats a little bit ironic is at the end of the day putin can still -- if he wants to come out looking like the good because, because hes the guy thats going to call for a ceasefire. hes the guy thats going to clear the zone for people to come in and search for evidence on the ground. and people will sit back and say he is responsible, but look how much hes cooperating with us. maybe hes not as bad a guy as we though...

One of these terrible timelines, it is remarkable that there have been so many given that every time it happens, it sort of feels like the end of the world. is, i mean, is there any -- >> its unbelievable. >> is there anything normal that we can say normally happens for things like this? >> no. i mean, its just completely abnormal. when you list different kinds of things that cause air accidents, youre thinking weather, pilot error, navigation errors. shoot-down over a military conflict, zone of...

Tail section off the fuselage. it was ruled pilot error. nothing wrong with the plane. in 2009, a similar story for air france 447. the airbus jumbo jet, crashing into the atlantic after the pilot misread on instrument. all 228 passengers and crew were killed. aviation consultant john nance says pilots relying too much on instruments is the biggest problem in an otherwise safe industry. >> thats why the asiana accident last year was so infuriating. two -- rather three people who were system oper...

Passenger plane, as well as the iranian airbus that got shot down. >> when you look back at the history of these and put them on one of these terrible timelines, it is remarkable that there have been so many given that every time it happens, it sort of feels like the end of the world. is, i mean, is there any -- >> its unbelievable. >> is there anything normal that we can say normally happens for things like this? >> no. i mean, its just completely abnormal. when you list different kinds of thin...

Mistake made by someone who had the capability to shoot down an aircraft and we know at least from the last few -- couple weeks that that could be russian or separatist russian capability. if thats true, this is really, really something that commands our attention to bring this kind of thing to a halt in ukraine. >> were talking about 295 passengers. 15 crew members. a 777. boeing has acknowledged that the plane has been lost on radar. we see the video already. this is somewhere near donetsk. we...