CNN The Situation Room December 29, 2014 23:07:00
Almost on top of the equator at times that storms pop up. but they pop up every day, that's the thing. 48 1/2 hours the plane takes off, gets through some of this weather, bumpy, and then all of a sudden look at this weather that pops up about 47 1/2 hours ago, right there is where the plane got into this very heavy thunderstorm activity. that's where we lost it. 50,000 foot tops. can't fly over that. the plane is just not going to go that high. so even though they requested to go higher there's just no way. they're going to have to go around it so they saw something on the radar, that's why t...
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