CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin December 29, 2014
As far as we know. We dont want to speculate whether weather was a contributing factor or not. Lets first find the aircraft. So a lot of unknowns but as you heard mention what we do know is weather was bad enough for the pi throat radio in asking permission to climb in elevation. That request was denied. Instead, he was told to go left. But a leaked screen grab which you see here said to be from Indonesian Air Traffic Control appears to show the plane was climbing but losing speed. This could have caused a stall. The head of the indonesian search team says early conjecture puts the plane and i...