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Let's them have the opportunity to see better. they have on board weather radar so they have the most current picture of what the weather is actually doing of anybody on the planet. and this weather radar is very up to date. it's tech nologically advanced and pilots are skilled and trained on how to use it. they are able to see the areas where you do not fly through and the airs where it is safe to maneuver around. an increase in the altitude would be absolutely normal and deviation off the intended flight track to stay out of the thunderstorms, those are routine events. so i think right now w...

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change in flight path. they wanted to go up to 38,000 feet in order to avoid rough weather that was directly in their path. we're getting word from the weather channel that there was a 50,000 thunderstorm cluster right near the flight path. that is the java sea under which the plane graphic is shown. they lost contact over the java sea. there's no indication, though specifically that weather had anything to do with it. we're getting a live report from a help center at the airport that has been set up. there were 162 people onboard. the breakdown is seven crew members, including seven...

all night. the region has been pummelled by hurricane rains in days causing can severe flooding in near malaysia. tony fernandez has been givinging a news conference in surabaya. he says the pilot did radio in they were facing severe weather. fernandez didn't have any news of the whereabouts of the plane though and he says his priority at the moment is to the loved ones of those on board. >> we hope that the aircraft is found quickly and we can find out the causes and what's happened. at the moment we don't want to speculate. we do not know what's happened. our prime concern now is t...

Hours for you. the route that malaysia airlines flight 17 flew is so popular when going from europe to asia, it has a name. it's called airway l-980. it's a key pathway to europe and asia, but by late thursday the airspace over eastern ukraine was empty. for more on this investigation i want to bring in greg feith, a former ntsb investigator and former airline captain haeger and safety expert john cox and nbc's long-time aviation correspondent, bob haeger. hello to all of you. greg, i want to start with you. is there any -- what are we going to learn from this crash site at this point? i've ...