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Reports from air traffic control initially gave pilots permission to climb but reversed the decision due to other air traffic in the vicinity. minutes later the plane disappeared from radar. further speculation about airasia flight 8501 is that it was flying too slow may have stalled and crashed into the sea due to intense forms. >> it can be really jarring physically it has enough force. we are taught to try to avoid them but not with standing it has happened before. there have been several weather related crashes within the past decade including airasia plane which crashed this year during l...

The united states saying it is ready to help in the search for the missing airasia plane. carrying 162 people vanished on its way from indonesia to singapore. they are comparing this to the same season yoe that caused air france 447 to crash. that was a frozen airspeed tube and computer problems blamed for that accident. this time, this is the second airliner disappeared so far just this year. our new york city news room with the latest. >> there have been five major airline crashes caused by weather over the past decade. this was august 2005 during landing due to heavy rain and hail. the soso...

The gulf. but you know, it did not start out that way. for the last century or so new orleans has been moving. this is new orleans today. i mean, take a good look. water basically everywhere. but here's what it looked like in the 1830s. look. all that green you see there is land. it's wetlands in most cases. when new orleans was settled, it was surrounded by wetlands and marshlands, and that's what basically served as a buffer between the city itself and the gulf of mexico. ever since then, though, that buffer has been disappearing. the process is still happening now. here's what that same str...

August 2005, an atr 72 turboprop fitted with the wrong fuel gauge runs out of fuel and ditches in the mediterranean sea off the coast of sicily. 16 of 39 on board are killed. seven airline employees including mechanics, executives, the pilot and co-pilot receive prison sentences of up to ten years. more than half a century ago there was another ditching. and, amazingly, the entire incident is caught on camera. the old coast guard film is startling. but it doesn't tell the whole story. this graphic animation shows what it might have looked like if you'd been in the middle of the pacific ocean o...

His coffin laid in state in front of israel's parliament building. crowds paid tributes to the legendary former general and foreign minister who died yesterday. he leaves a mixed legacy. he's hailed at a great defender of israel and a military genius, but he also resigned in shame after hundreds of palestinians were killed by israel's christian allies in lebanon following the 1982 war. and despite being an early supporter of the movement to build israeli settlements in the palestinian territories, sharon as prime minister did an about face, championing the disengagement of gaza in august 2005....