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Where the ping was heard, the line is very nicely with that. >> almost exact ly to the arc. >> it is off to one side. >> off to the east a little bit, but it coincides with where the last ping s and it is almost identical, and right on that route. >> and what we would really love to know if we had more information on this, of course, is what were the exact locations and them, of course, if you knew the altitude that the aircraft was flying at and the fuel levels, we could plug it in, and technically say, can the simulator fly us to that spot with fuel or running out around that point, and woul...

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>> that things could get bad in california over the next few days. let's go to indra for a look at the forecast today. >> good morning. yeah, that's usually the biggest concern. it's january and february, the one time in california really not talking about drought conditions, because it's when you typically get the rain. that is the opposite of what they've been seeing in what should be their rainy season. high pressure still dominating, bringing in the typical santa ana winds. when that happens, you start seeing humidities that go down to single digits. hardly looking at the 60% and 70% humid...

So as they came up the east coast, they began to be issued holding instructions, and they held for three different times. >> the delays total 77 minutes. around 8:20 p.m., they have only a little more than 14,000 pounds of fuel left, enough for another hour or so in the air. >> during those holding patterns, that's when the flight engineer should have made sure that the fuel levels were fine. >> avianca 052 heavy, i'm going to bring you to the northeast, is that fine with your fuel? >> i guess so. thank you very much. >> they inquired with air traffic controllers how much longer it would be, t...