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Routes near them but they do have room to move around and you have room to make a u-turn. if you have a wall of weather that you know will destroy your airplane you can make a u-turn in the air and get away from that. that's another possibility, another out for the pilot. >> and also, to advance on what the colonel is saying, there's no understood caution from that request that there's an urgency about it. he's not said in the request "i have a really massty thunderstorm that could well break up the aircraft in front of me i'm declaring an emergency, i need to climb to 38,000 feet now." he sai...

Advisories. it is also with your own carrier. you can get weather updates and information from your own carrier and advisories en route, but you're constantly checking weather. from air traffic control, you would have a very short conversation. you would ask permission to climb to flight level 38 3,800 and they would say, in this case they said no and the reason is so much traffic. not a lot of conversation with them. not much conversation about the conditions and ask and air traffic control responded no where. we're full and everyone is reporting the turbulence. >> very busy waterway where it...

Fly around it or get under it, but that area is notorious for thunderstorms. might be better to turn around and go back. >> also a lot of talk about the pit tubes in which those pit tubes froze up and caused the computer systems to go out of whack. this happened several times with airbus planes. let me read something from flight safety which indicates there were several incidents. the crew of u.s. airplane was using the on board weather radar system to avoid thunderstorms. flying over japan at flight level 390. the airplane entered an area of cirrus clouds with light turbulence and moderate ra...

Of the world, that flight level would be cold enough that icing could be a concern. investigators will have to eventually analyze if icing conditions on the wings came into play along the flight path. as we zoom in, this is the flight and the last known location. you can see the thunderstorms right nearby. obviously weather, if it wasn't the main factor, it was certainly no help along the path of the flight. richard, back to you. >> mark, thank you for that update for us on the weather. here is what we know about the plane. it's an air bus 200 series a-320. delivered in 2008. this plane had 23...

Mark? >> good afternoon, richard. we continue to follow the weather situation surrounding that air asia flight 8501. on the screen now is the flight path through the java are sea from indonesia up toward singapore was the planned path. it does appear the weather played a big role in what happened with this flight. the colors you see on the screen. this is our enhanced infrared imagery. looking down on the earth at the clouds, the brighter thor colors, yellows and reds indicating the higher cloud tops and the colderer cloud tops. some of the storms were quickly blossoming to over 50,000 feet. o...