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Carrying some 217 passengers. it had seven crew members on board. our nic robertson reports that 17 people on that flight were children. meteorologist derek van dam is here as well. derek has been looking into the weather situation, which when these things happen it's always a question. what was happening there in the region? what can you tell us? >> so very little information at the moment. as we continue to aggregate all the bits and pieces of information that we do have, it's important that we eliminate all the possibilities, including weather as one of the factors of this potential plane c...

Reports there are 20 ambulances on their way to the crash site. we are expecting more information this hour and will bring to it you as we learn more on cnn. let's turn to our meteorologist derek van dam who has been checking the weather situation in that region. derek joins us at the weather center. what have you learned? >> i think it's very important as sparse information that we have at the moment, we start to eliminate all the possibilities including the weather at the time of the last point of contact with flight kgl 9628. what we use at these moments in time is a service called flightaw...