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Thank you so much renae. >> i want to bring in greg now. he joins me now by phone. he's the asia managing editor of flight global. greg, good to have you with us owe at this time as we try and make sense of this situation. again, it has been confirmed by the airline that the aircraft requested a flight deviation because of weather. talk to me about what you are making of what we know so far. >> well, it seems to be pretty clo clear that the guys wanted to make a routine maneuver around the storm siftystem that was he or probably still existing there right now as a matter of fact. these maneuve...

Ways. while this seems similar to mh 370 right now, i think this will pla play out a great deal differently. >> talk to me a little about why you say that. >> the reason is of course we have recognized bad weather in the region and we have seen instances where airplanes diverting around weather have suffered crashes. there was one that was operated by swift air that crashed over mali last summer. it happened as the pilot was trying to divert around a weather system. the findings from that crash investigation with unique to that investigation and we won't know what happened to this air craft to...

Singapore is he is real. you look at the airport, planes are coming and going. it's almost strange that hasn't had more of an impact than it has. we just had this horrible tragic aberration. and that's, of course -- sounds like we lost greg there. >> thanks to you, managing editor of flight global. we'll get back to you as soon as we can reconnect with you there in singapore. greg, thank you so much. we're learning more about the search. indonesian officials, the air force there has deployed three planes including a surveillance plane to search for 8501. we also learning that singapore has joi...

Passengers 17 were children and that includes one baby. the ceo of airasia tweeted this short statement -- "thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. we must stay strong." we haven't heard from them in a while. if we get any updates from the airline company itself we'll certainly bring that to you immediately. airasia again released the nationalities of the people on board. i just gave that to you. three from south korea. one from singapore. one from malaysia. and one from france. so we continue on here. joining me by phone is greg waldron. greg is the asia managing editor of "flight global...

Is a dialing back of rhetoric, a dialing back of criticism. and you can understand why, because there are foreign policy issues as well as this issue, which is very personal to china. >> absolutely fascinating, pauline. we're a month into this now, and we just cannot imagine what it's like for relatives of passenger there's in beijing and of course elsewhere. that's pauline report living from beijing. thank you. rosemary? >> errol, the head of the australian agency coordinating the search operation says as we've been reporting the signals detected by the towed pinger locator may be the best in...