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Was as close to the hurricane as it actually was. thankfully because i think we all would have had a rougher time on that flight had we known. >> usually when you're above the clouds you can see the storms rolling in. could you see the weather from up there? >> oh, yeah. we could still see the outer bands of the hurricane had had started going across the island when we took off. i took video going out as we were flying out and i could still see the waves in the ocean through that sheer cloud and i took video all the way up watching irma get further and further away. >> listen, jason is an avia...

Board, many turned to the website flight radar 24. flight radar 24 revealing the exact moment that the airbus jet began falling from 31,000 feet detecting the plane wobbling from side to side, an indication it broke apart before plummeting to earth. >> something the faa hasn't done, ntsb and europe hasn't been able to pull it together. >> reporter: now used by airlines and intelligence officials to track friglights, started as a game make. >> the flight tracking service became much more popular than the price comparison part. >> reporter: son tracking planes became robertson's primary business...

How capable are rescue crews to get there in a short period of time? >> i investigated in a very similar care area in casper, wy, which had similar topography to that area, demand that search -- i'd have to see what the weather conditions are there right now. it starts with the helicopter search. if there is any kind of flight tracking -- this is what we questioned in mh370. because we didn't have the flight tracking to tell us where the aircraft was. in this smaller jet, it's under a different set of operating rules. so i doubt they had flight following on this aircraft. so it's going to be a...

About with mh370 where it's satellite related. this is a ground-based system that does flight tracking. similar information being sent back to say, here's where we are. it's not nearly as sophisticated as it was or should have been on mh370, nor any airline that crosses large oceans. so that is a little bit different. but it is certainly just as capable because of the fact that it's more land based. i'll have to look to see exactly where it was, because there seems to be some dispute about how far along in the flight the aircraft was. when we get that information, we'll come back and tell you ...

Context of what happened here is still a mystery. remains a mystery. that's why it's a breakthrough that they found at least one of the black boxes. when you look at what we know so far, we know this aircraft did go through its last routine maintenance check just yesterday. we know it had its last big check just last summer of 2013. we also know a bit about the captain. the captain at the controls had over ten years of experience with lufthansa and germanwings. so not by any means a rookie here. but still, though we know that something went terribly wrong, something happened so fast that these...