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And we know richard -- well maybe we don't know but it has been reported that there were he i have storms in the area, when the plane was flying and missing, and some who suggest it was not that ba. he there are report s thats that he wanted to climb over a heavy storm, so we don't know, but what was going on? >> well, he wanted to climb from 32,000 to 38,000 feet to get over the heavy storms. from what the pilots are saying a what is online at the moment it looks as though the air speed of the aircraft was low, dang can rousely low at this time. what one a-23 pilot told me a that a climb of t...

Will run into a phenomena called radar shadowing which mean ss the first line of storms, and the gap, but it does not show you the imbedded storm behind it. so you may think that you can fly into the gap, and think that you are making your way behind it, but it is a sucker hole and you are stuck inside of a dead end and you have to penetrate the bad storms. this is exactly what air france 447 flew into and intertropical convergence storm, and embedded thunderstorm and then what happened is the tubes were impeded, and that caused the the crash. >> and so i don't want to make a assumption but is...

Alastair has commented about. it may have been a scattered area or embedded area of thunderstorms that they i tried to deviate around, and we yes, we do have control of the airplane, and nobody on the ground can control the airplane. we use autopilot in a heading select, and we will turn to the heading that the radar will select that will take us out of the worst, and the industry standard is 20 miles away from the storm to prevent turbulence and all of the bad things associated with it. and now, alastair has flown in that specific area and which have flown in the tropical interconvergence zon...

Is en vevelope is narrower and narrower because of the climb. and so we have the request, and the climb and the window coalescing as the pilot lost contact. >> and this is the for a pilot, the interconvergence zone and is it common for pilots to fly through this area to have common problems? >> well, it is common to have these common storms in that area, but it is not advised for a flight crew to try to penetrate any thunderstorm for that matter. and so if in fact they were using the onboard radar system to try to find a gap in the convective activity and the lighter parts of the storm, if you...