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A well travelled route. i mean you're talking about some serious air traffic control issues here. it would be very surprising if we learned that this plane either was out of contact for any length of time or under the fir, the indonesian 60 wasn't tracking what was happening. >> all right. richa richard quest. do stand by for us because i want to share this with our viewers. look at this. we want to put this up on our screens for you. air asia has quickly updated their company pages on social media. you may notice when we put up the pictures of the air craft with the air asia logos, they were ...

Traveling to the last point of contact of this particular airasia plane waves could be very choppy. we're talking about two, three, even four-meter waves possible with some of this wind-swept ocean currents from thunderstorms moving through. aisha. >> all right. our derek van dam closely monitoring this for us from cnn's international weather center. derek, we appreciate it. do stand by for us. if you are just joining us we want to reset and tell you about the breaking news coming in to us here at cnn. an airasia flight en route from the indonesian city of surabaya to singapore is missing. an ...

Remember we've also been reporting on some serious flooding near the thailand and malaysia border. look at the rainfall totals. just a toindicator of how activ the weather has been. >> very important perspective. joining us from the international weather center. do stand by. >> we want to turn now to washington. washington white house spokesman eric shults says president obama has been briefed on the missing flight. said the u.s. president will continue to monitor the situation on air asia flight 8501. joining us by phone from honolulu hawaii is cnn white house correspondent michelle kinzski. ...

Airlines but also by passengers. it's a flyby wire cockpit. it's extremely modern. this aircraft we're talking about tonight, if it's the one i think it is, you're looking at a plane six years old. so it's not an old aircraft. it's being flown by an extremely reputable airline with a very good reputation for safety. >> all right. our richard quest, cnn aviation correspondent. do stand by for us, richard. we will come back to you shortly because i want to bring in derek van dam, our meteorologist, standing by with more. obviously the question on the minds of many as they hear, derek, that the p...

About 8:30 a.m. local time. now that's about four hours ago, more than four hours ago. as time goes on there are further concerns about what has happened to this plane. >> indeed. saying that this air craft was in the indonesian flight information region. paula, i don't mean to put you on the spot, but what do we know about radar in the region? >> well, certainly richard is going to know a lot more about that than i will. he's definitely the expert on that. i think it's best to pass it to him. >> all right paula. do stand by for us. i want to go back to richard quest to put that question to hi...