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Part of aviation with south/east asian traffic going north. south, east, west -- looking at this map at the moment, there are at least five planes in very close proximity. >> richard quest, important analysis there. richard do stand by for us. i want to recap what we know and what we know about this air asia indonesia flight 8501. it was in route from indonesia to singapore when it went missing. plane lost contact at 7:24 a.m. indonesian loc am time. more than five hours ago. it had 162 people onboard. that is now been confirmed by the air line. 155 passengers and seven crew members. now, the ...

>> right. so when we talk about an flight information region, this is how the international aviation authorities, this is how the world is divided up. different countries are given different things. this is the area that you are responsible for in the event of an incident. you're involved with the air traffic control of it and if something happens, you lead the way for the search and rescue. so that's -- for instance, mh 360, because it was miled away from malaysia but the incident appears to have happened in the australian sir flight information region. that's why it's significant. indonesia,...

Aviation that companies like air asia will have subsidiaries or partial interests or minor investments in these other air lines and these other air lines are allowed to brand the product. in this case, indonesia air asia but the air craft for example indonesia air asia has far, f ffar air craft than the parent company has. it will be an indonesian investigation. what i'm looking at now, look at the route this plane was taking over the water. it was up 32,000 feet give or take. the altitude seems to have been bouncing up and down a little bit and the pilot flying requested a deviation because o...

Greg, it's good to see you here. i just mentioned the evidence, the concrete evidence that points to this being a criminal act. it i can me through that that leads you to believe that's the case. >> well, early on, david, one of the things that we had was the initial radar track. that was just the outbound portion that tended to make us believe that this was just at event that took place and we didn't know if it was an accident. it was that second turn. it was that initial left hand turn with the track for about an hour, and then the subsequent return or right turn that caused me and i think o...

The plane was deliberately diverted. in a moment, i'll speaking to dan pfeiffer here about what the white house knows at this juncture. first greg fife, pilot, and nbc news analyst. he's been tracking this now. greg, it's good to see you here. i just mentioned the evidence, the concrete evidence that points to this being a criminal act. take me through that that leads you to believe that's the case. >> well, early on, david, one of the things that we had was the initial radar track. that was just the outbound portion that tended to make us believe that this was just an event that took place an...