Weather Avoidance News Today

Studied and heard all of the information that were getting about air asia flight 8501 at this point. can you walk us through? i think i want to look at it and walk us through the procedure to deal with this. >> there is strategic weather avoidance, and tactical weather avoidance. the airline dispatcher who helps the pilots plan the flight would be looking at the best route of flight to avoid weather as much as possible. the piles, once they reviewed the flight information would want to make sure...

In maximum learning mode all the time. and the issue of weather avoidance, which youve touched on is clearly high on the list. if youve got a row of thunderstorms topping at 50,000 people, youre a pilot you know no airliner is going to go over that. certainly, i think as soon as they get a clearer idea of what might have happened here theyll try to maximize the learning to make sure it never happens again. >> right. that was a process that obviously takes some time as you know from your accident...