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>> there have been six major crashes over the past decade where weather conditions played a big role. in 2005, two separate planes crashed during landing during a severe hailstorm. in july of this year, a transasia airplane crashed in taiwan killing dozens during an emergency landing in bad weather. four of those flights crashed during takeoff and landing. the most risky part of flying, but two other crashes, airfrance flight 447 and flight 612 crashed in midair and most closely resemble what may have happened to -- maneuver past the storm in high altitude before it disappeared. in august of 2...

Course change before changing indonesian air traffic control. no distress call was made into the plane involving many nations in the java sea. it asked if it needed help but so far the offer hasn't been taken up. the 7 fleet says it has nafl assets ready to assist if needed. the head of the search said the plane is likely to be up from the sea. it faced coordinates from the sea where contacts were lost. now this is quickly turning into one of asia's worst ever air disasters. back to you both. >> thank you david. we are learning more about the passenger and the crew aboard flight 8501. pilot ca...

Hello and welcome to "america's news headquarters," i'm eric shawn. >> and there were 162 people on board that flight. right now, their loved ones are in agony. let's go live to the late ets. david? >> reporter: yes. airasia's chief executive officer has been holding a news conference in surabaya, indonesia. he moved there earlier today after he heard the plane was missing. he said that the pilot did radio in that they were facing severe weather. he also said the pilot had 20,000 hours flying experience 6,000 with airasia. he didn't have any news on the whereabouts of the plane. he said his pr...

Above bus 8020. 137 were adults 17 children and one baby. also on board two pilots four cabin crew. no americans were on board that flight. >> while it is too soon to know what happened on board airasia flight 8501 severe weather could be to blame. kelly wright has more for us with the investigation there. >> cheryl, good morning. several transportation experts focusing on the weather as being the possible cause of airasia's disappearance. shortly after departing the pilot alerted air traffic control he wanted to climb higher in altitude due to encountering intense storms. published reports in...