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Everybody's role. >> the co-pilot is flying the plane and is about five miles behind a 747 on its way to japan. >> we're climbing to 5,000. >> since the airbus is climbing faster than the plane in front of it, flight 587 quickly climbs into the 747's wake, causing the american airlines plane to experience turbulence. this, in itself, is not uncommon. >> airplane wakes are common to the wakes made by boats or ships. it is a displacement as the vehicle passes through this fluid, in one case water, in one case air. >> this faa simulation illustrates a different jet flying into wake turbulence. th...

There is a level of risk aversion that is happening throughout some of these conflict zones. the men and women in the cia are trained for this type of operation. and we don't have individuals on the ground. and so in order to fix that problem, we have to operate from kuwait, from turkey, from iraq. and it requires us to be a lot aggressive. so the president needs to take the gloves off when it comes to our men and women in the cia. ambassador ryan crocker probably one of the best things the foreign service has produced, he always says we need pumps and wing tips on the ground, too, in places l...

>> bad weather is such a factor that they have to consider it. we know this flight passed through an immense band of bad weather. first, could lightning have taken this plane down? not likely. modern airliners are made so that it will be ejected off the wing tips or tail. and even if it penetrates to the interior, very improbable that it would disable enough electronics to bring the plane down. second possibility, what is the storm is so immense and so big that it produces such turbulence and the plane is torn apart in flight. this plane can take a huge impact. something was already wrong with...

Because we know this plane passed through an immense band of terrible weather. so here are three key questions people have been asking us. first, could lightning have taken this plan down? not likely. modern airliners are designed so that if they're hit by lightning, that lightning will channel along the metal skin of the plane be ejected off the wing tips or the tail, and even if it penetrates to the interior of the plane, very improbable that it would disable enough pieces of electronics to bring the plane down. second possibility. what if the storm is so immense and so big that it creates s...

Weather was bad off indonesia's coast. but was it bad enough to play a role in flight 8501's disappearance? cnn's tom foreman has that. >> reporter: don, investigators have to consider the possibility that weather brought this plane down. because it went through such a huge band of terrible storms out there. and here are the three key questions viewers keep asking us. first, could lightning have done this? the answer is not likely. modern aircraft are designed so they can be hit by lightning, the lightning travels along the metal skin and then is ejected off the wing tips or off the tail. very...