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Zero visibility. too dark to see anything. weather is not good to begin with. there were reports from one of the teams they believe they could have spotted the tail today. that hasn't been confirmed by officials. if they did in fact find the tail, that's hopefully where those black boxes are unless the tail broke into pieces on impact. that's where they do find black boxes. there's a hopeful move those will be found soon. as you mentioned over the weekend, there was word that the flight paths from surabaya to singapore was not approved for a sunday. that's correct. it seems took mostly a paper...

Specifically prepare their flight paths to go above or around storms. still, flight 8501's disappearance is being compared to the air france disaster after a severe storm. and an air algerie flight that crashed this summer while trying to avoid bad weather. no one survived either crash. but planes are designed to withstand elements like lightning strikes estimated to hit airliners once a year. today's planes are ruggedly built, pushed to the limit where engineers built the 777 wing an estimated 23 feet before they could make it snap. and planes that can fly eight miles a minute have live radar...

That the incidents with the most fatalities somehow linked back to malaysia is extraordinary. you certainly would never want to try to figure out the 0ds of this happening. but here we are and there's nothing to say except it's just horrible. >> you can't draw causation, but i wonder where this appears to have been related to weather, you've flown this exact route. what are some of the challenges of flying this route? >> well i just want to make clear this route is not enormously different from other routes where flight paths through the intertropical convergence zone. indeed my own experience...

Has isis grabbed one and taken into iraq or used it on the turkish or jordanian border. >> there's no way to verify this but it's a real threat we have to pay attention to. >> you're a flyer. i'm a flyer. many of our viewers are flyers, possibly going to europe. should americans be worried about flying over war zones of which there are many now and change where they fly as a result of this threat? >> i wouldn't fly over a war zone. there's no way to protect these places. a stinger missile, a lot of them have been lost in iraq, will go up to 20,000 feet. you can hit airports near conflict zones...

Flown that route. what you have here is a situation, carol, where some are wanting to blame the car for being on the road, when the road was open, and that seems to me to be slightly back to front. large parts of southern ukraine and crimea are closed, and are highly restricted at lower altitudes, but this plane was actually at a safer area. it was further north where there had been no restrictions of those sorts of levels and so i believe other planes were on those flight paths, and the real issue is why ikeo or the authorities didn't close it. >> you know, it just makes you worry, we live in...