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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 website's editor-in-chief spoke with cnn. listen. >> it's a wing stall not an engine stall. i have to clarify that. it's 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 there's not enough speed or the plane is too sharp of an angle and the air on top of the wing is disturbed and no longer giving lift. >> let's turn to ...

A recovery mode. officials are not ready move to there yet but there's optimism they may find something at daybreak when the search resumes again. >> we just saw a heartbreaking tweet from the captain of the plane's daughter. and her tweet reads, dad, please come home. i still need you. please return dad. dad, come home. dad, you have to come home. you can just feel the desperation in those words. david, this is still being classified as a search-and-rescue mission. the emphasis there on rescue. at the same time families have been asked to provide close up pictures of family members who are sm...

As far as we know. we don't want to speculate whether weather was a contributing factor or not. let's first find the aircraft. >> so a lot of unknowns but as you heard mention what we do know is weather was bad enough for the pi throat radio in asking permission to climb in elevation. that request was denied. instead, he was told to go left. but a leaked screen grab which you see here said to be from indonesian air traffic control appears to show the plane was climbing but losing speed. this could have caused a stall. the head of the indonesian search team says early conjecture puts the plane ...

Control. captain always has the ability to declare an emergency and do whatever he needs to do to maintain safety of flight. >> okay. so spencer tweeted, i could figure it stalling. but why could this plane not just steer down? do you think the engine could have been hit by something? >> well you know in a thunderstorm if they entered a thunderstorm the ingestion of precipitation and particularly hail may have damaged the engines, and caused the power interruption which would then you know necessitate a great deal of activity in the cockpit trying to restore their power. but, you know, until w...