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Significant amount of area that you're trying to cover. they want to make sure there's no overlap. of course there are an awful lot of helicopters and planes in the air and have been earlier today. in fact there was a military plane that landed here at the airport and had to wait because there was too much in the air. it's a busy area at the best of times. obviously a busy shipping channel. and of course with these extra assets in the area, it is making it more difficult to coordinate. >> all right. paula hancocks there for us and we will continue to keep tabs on you where you are there where ...

Obviously we don't know, you know many detating but one to this point appeared similar, and in all of these cases, they didn't have time to get out a distress call. when they finally realized they were in a dire situation, they were fighting to save the plane and that's air transport 447, west caribbean airlines and several other crashes that have this sequence. by the time it came when they could have made the call it was really all hands on deck fighting to save the flight. >> any situation what we know if weather was a factor could there be something else suggested here that could have caus...

French equivalent of the ntsb they go on to say their thoughts are with the families of those affected by flight 8501. martin? >> yeah there's no question it's a popular plane, not just in asia wherever you fly, you're likely to have been on an airbus a-320. we're following the breaking news this morning, airasia flight 8501 missing, losing contact while flying between indonesia and singapore. we'll be right back after the break.

Pilots requested to climb to 38,000 feet because of bad weather, what does that tell you about the conditions this plane was flying in. >> because of their on board radar, most likely looking at the radar that's been put out since this flight it was just a red sea of thunderstorms, thunderstorms appearing red on the radar, so by can be to deviate around and then climb, it was clear that the plane was facing some pretty desperate weather and they were trying to get out of it. that will be part of the investigation, they will look at the pilot's response to that weather and many things could hav...

Talk of airbus we think of airbus 447. we know it was an airbus 330, but could there be something similar? >> reporter: yes, of course. because you basically have two aircraft that with a very catastrophic incident at the safest point of the flight which is in flight. it is very unusual for things to happen other than that nefarious activity there's absolutely no question of that at to the moment. so you are looking at those situations where either something happens to the airplane or the aircraft or you're looking at how the plane was being flown. and, yes, 447 is a textbook example of the wa...