the last hearing from this airplane that it was trying to vector around a thunderstorm and very very dangerous weather in that region right now. cnn's will ripley is joining me now from beijing, he's among our team who are helping us cover this breaking news because will you were covering the mh 370 story for some time and were there in kuala lumpur and strangely enough airasia is based there in kuala lumpur. the similarities will end there, hopefully, it will not be an aviation mystery like we saw with mh 370. right now we just don't know anything. we do know and i want to start with you on this point, airasia lost contact with that airplane and didn't announce it for