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Which perhaps still could be our biggest clue as to what happened. just ex-plain that again, take our viewers through what you think you saw through that information. >> what that information shows us is first of all, that the pilot asked -- at 32,000 feet he requested 38,000 feet to avoid weather. he was denied 38 but he was given 34. however, the screen grab shows him at 36,300 and continuing to climb. but more importantly, the speed of the err plane, and it was actually shown in knots but isle convert it to miles an hour. he was traveling at 540 miles an hour. but on the screen grab he's sh...

That i've spoken to, that air speed is not sufficient to sustain flight at that altitude. so from this one screen grab in isolation, this is an err plane essentially out of control. just simply using the data if it is correct from indonesia. just quickly, could this still be weather related or mechanical? >> it -- i don't think it's mechanical. it's either weather related. perhaps the captain somehow or another was fooled by the weather. he blundered into a severe thunderstorm. much more severe than he thought. those updrafts can be up to is 00 mourks vertical updrafts up or down.