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Geoffrey at this screen grab. reportedly it leaked by an indonesian air traffic controller not verified by cnn. it appears to show airasia flight 8501 was rising in altitude but was losing speed and was at a velocity that was too slow to sustain flight. what does that tell us? >> indeed that came from navaid indonesia. we obtained that. and what it shows is that as we know they requested an altitude climb. it was denied. however, it shows the aircraft traveling through 36,300 feet. the arrow you...

Speed. my colleagues, a-320 check captains, tell me at that altitude at the aircrafts weight that speed is not enough to sustain flight. they believe its possible if this screen grab is correct that this would indicate an aerodynamic stall, a high-altitude upset similar to what we saw with air france 447. >> richard, i know you want to get in there. what is a typical procedure for a pilot to gain air speed? >> i just wanted to come up to geoffrey if i may, don. >> go ahead. >> geoffrey with that...

Monitoring. they just dont want to do it. >> mary, you heard in andrews piece, you said its generally not just one thing that causes a crash here. lets talk about the weather, though. obviously this was some pretty severe weather. the pilot had asked for permission to climb to 38,000 feet because it was so bad. but what else could have contributed to this? >> well the weather might have been a precipitating or caused a cascading effect. in other crashes that ive worked heres how the sequence wen...

According to airline ratings.com which obtained this screen grab this indicates that 8501 stalled, moving about 100 miles too slowly for such a high altitude. this websites editor-in-chief spoke with cnn. listen. >> its a wing stall not an engine stall. i have to clarify that. its a little bit confusing to the viewers when you talk about a stall, you think about your car stalling on the freeway. this is an earaerodynamic stall. elter because theres not enough speed or the plane is too sharp of a...

Some parts float, some parts sink. there should be something to see. >> more to talk about so well be checking in back with you over the next couple of hours. up next the deadliest year invasion. in nearly a decade. but the number of crashes is actually down. tremendously. whats the reason? plus someone leaked a screen grab of the air traffic controllers radar. here why experts say this image could show something very disturbing about the jets speed. this is cnns special live coverage. stay with...

Plane. that doesnt matter. this is an international issue. youve been talking to people about this investigation. what is the latest that youre hearing? >> right now theres no suspicion of anybody, the cockpit crew or the passengers or the ground crew. at this time although they do the investigation and they look at that and try to look at everybody that was on that plane and look at the baggage that was loaded. but so far theres no suspicion of that. as david mentioned, theyre hoping to find th...

This morning about the flight speed. so joining me to talk about this is cnn meteorologist chad myers, also director of special projects at oceanic institution, chad i want to start with you with this latest information we are getting, reportedly a screen grab from air traffic control which show this flight 8501 rising in altitude perhaps rising too slowly at that altitude why would that be a concern? >> lets break this down for you. im going to take you where you are at 36,000 feet and give you...

Need to figure out. >> and typically youre looking at other things like human error or perhaps mechanical failure that coincided or resulted from bad weather, right? >> right. generally weather can be a factor in an investigation. it could be a factor as far as cause but its generally not -- in transport category aircraft its not going to be the sole factor. but weve learned a lot over the years. there were phenomena-like wind shear that we had to understand. we still have wind shear but its abo...

Aircraft would have been in a stall position. but if you look at that screen grab down in the bottom right-hand corner it says 535, which is the indicated air speed, clld be awhich would be a normal speed, not a stall speed. >> so that isnt too slow that isnt -- i read somewhere it was 100 knots too slow to maintain flight in an ascent no? >> right. thats what was reported. but converting the knots theres there -- but ground speed and air speed are two different things in terms of winds aloft. i...

Looking for. >> it being shallow water it sounds encouraging we may have answers sooner than later. tom foreman, thank your for explaining it. it definitely hopes to put it in perspective for all of us. as crews continue to search for the plane investigators continue their search for answers as to what happened to flight 8501. we have a screen grab we want to show you that might provide some insight. again we want to stress this is just a theory at this point. the images of radar purported to sh...