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No objective. >> what are differences in the depths of where flight 370 crashed, ocean depth, and java sea. >> huge. i mean we're talking in the area which was about 1,300 miles off the coast of the australia, depths in excess of 10,000 12,000 feet. big trenches. the last area we were looking at where we concentrated on the uav search, there was a 31-day period of gps pings on black box and once that runs out, we're trolling the huge area with uavs. some weren't even equipped to go down to the depths they were talking about. java sea, 150 meters. that aspect of the search will be a lot easier....

Airplane. those airplanes are st. almos fire. you get turbulence and turbulence is more severe toward the weather formation. also you get icing. icing doesn't necessarily affect the engines because they have these anti-icing things but you can get icing on the instruments which is what happened to air france 449. procedures and protocols are well practiced and that's what makes it slightly odd. >> he's tweeting regularly calling the flight's disappearance his worst nightmare. fernandez sent out a tweet saying his heart bleeds for the families of the crew and passengers. fernandez once worked a...

The flight went missing. the flight took off from surabaya. the blue line on this map shows you the approximate flight path. a cluster of thunderstorms off to the east. we don't think that caused a problem. there was a line of storms east to west across the flight path. that is when the pilot when it approached that line of storms asked to request to go from 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet. the plane itself has a radar. the pilot can see where the worst of the heavy rain echoes are or where the hail is and the pilot was going to try to navigate around those storms. unusual in this region of the cou...

No distress call was received. there were severe weather at the time in the area including high winds, thunderstorms and lightning. those conditions mean the flight likely encountered severe turbulence not just within the thunderstorm but possibly for several miles beyond the storm. airline officials say the pilot of the plane had more than 20,000 hours of flying experience and the plane made more than 13,000 trips. let's go to bill karins for an expanded look at what role weather played in all of this. bill? >> good morning. the flight itself -- let me take you to the map and show you what ha...

Less than an hour after leaving surabaya. neither plane sent a diskress call, but in the case of the malaysian airliner it was a clear night. the passengers and crew of airasia 8501 were experiencing very bad weather. the search was pressed in the south china sea for a better part of a week. >> the breaking news here on cnn -- >> cnn broke the news barely 48 hours after the plane had gone missing that malaysia's own military radar showed it was gone from that area within an hour of takeoff. the government had hesitated. critical information was withheld. malaysia airlines didn't tell families ...