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Flight. an official says the debris was spotted off the coast of indonesia. the plane has been missing since sunday. the airline says it's too early to blame weather for the disappearance. our tom foreman looks at the major weather factors at play. >> bad weather is so often a factor in aviation accidents, they have to consider it. here are three key questions people have been asking us. 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...

And they have to talk about weather because weather is so often a factor. look at the flight path of this plane as it took off and flew less than an hour and look at the weather system it was flying through as it went missing there. tremendous, horrible storms under way. why could that make such a difference? let's blow it up and look at it closer. if you think about this plane flying through a storm system a big storm system out here one of the first things many people ask about is lightning. could lightning have brought this plane down? there is plenty of lightning going on in the area. is t...

What manufacturer they had installed, it's a sophisticated piece of equipment of the and you monitor that situation. you're looking at green and red, yellow all indicating the severity of the particular storm. and you're still doing your very best to avoid it completely if not, you sometimes have to pick your way through individual cells. ? and what's your worry when you're up there and you are seeing a large thunderstorm? obviously you try to go around it or in the case here it looks like he tried to go above it. and asked permission to ascend and was given permission to do so and it appears ...

The wheels. >> not really. you are going to have trouble judging your height here. you are not going to have the a all tim teres. they are not going to be accurate. a stable dissent. >> that's critical here, carol. you want stability. you are coming up to an ocean. you can't control the waves but at least you can control the aircraft. you must keep the wing tips and the engines from catching on a wave, because that will force the plane to twist like that, tumble and break apart. you want to do just like they did on the miracle of the hudson, tail first. can you give us the outside view? i know...

The current. other items, such as the aircraft tail or wing tips, will be semi submerged and they're propelled mainly by the current and not so much by the wind. so the elapsed time has allowed debris to spread over a vast area. >> so this could really wind up anywhere. let's say they find some wreckage from the plane in the indian ocean. what do they do next to start deep water searches? is because the challenges will be enormous, especially if they're looking for those black boxes, the flight data, the voice recorders. >> the next step is to assess what items of did debris are recovered from...