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The missing plane. the search largely focused off the western coast of australia. you can see here where they have been looking. how could the debris end up all the way from over here to reunion island? cnn's ander stevens is here on the exhaustive search efforts since the plane vanished. andrew? >> reporter: who would have thought it would be 500 days when they first find the debris linked to mh370. flight 370 taking off to beijing disappearing shortly after its takeoff. and the search began. and it was an enormous search too, to begin with. if you look at what most people would say the time ...

There. you couldn't get ambulances. would you most probably at least in the short-term shortly after the accident happened you would have to helicopter everybody up there and then if you have any people who would have survived or other casualties you'd have to chopper them off the mountain at this stage of the game. >> we're understanding that the french authorities are trying to encourage people locally to stay away from the crash site. they need to get the search-and-rescue crews, if there's any hope of finding survivors, which it sounds like from our aviation experts and a from what the pre...

Spreads. this year's vaccine was developed h3 n 2 began to mutate. it is not as effective as it could be. doctors say you should get a flu shot because some protection is better than none. >> police arresting the korean airline executive who turned a packed plane around over a backg of macadamia nuts. the ceo's daughter faces charges of in-flight violence and changing a flight route. he she answer hey cued of getting employees to cover up the incident. >> he tried to sensor it not only in this country but also in america. kim jong-un the interview may soon be available to south koreans. he pla...

Michael, is this appears as though it's going to be a weather-related upset. you know we do know some concrete facts here, whereas in the case of mh370, we were flying blind, if you like. we know that the captain requested a climb in altitude from 32 to 38,000 feet. we than he asked for a deviation from his track, to go left of track, or his planned flight route to avoid thunderstorms. and we know that there were severe thunderstorms in the area. we've seen the radar, printouts of those. so that is absolutely crystal clear. they were severe and there were many of them. so we do know that. we k...

Go through directly a thunderstorm. >> it's our understanding that the pilot -- the captain asked for a deviation in the flight route, asked to go higher. how stable is the plane at those altitudes, some 36,000 to 38,000 feet? >> well that's a great part of the question. but before i get to that answer and i'll get to it very quickly. let's not jump ahead of ourselves. the request for higher altitude may have been because they were experiencing choppy ride. it may not have been unbearable. we all want to make our ride comfortable for passengers. as far as going to a higher altitude my understa...