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>> and this is just the start. >> it adds to their horror. >> some very difficult days and weeks and months still to come. let's go to jeffrey thomas from perth, a australia. so when you look at the debris field, what does that tell you, if anything about what went wrong with flight 8501? >> look i think the debris field confirms a catastrophic event. the fact that it was found directly -- we say directly underneath the area that the plane was lost. it's only ten kilometers or six miles from where the last radar plot was. from the radar plot we talked about earlier, the plane wasn't where it w...

447 in 2009. there are some similarities between the two. on the evidence we have so far, and of course nothing is confirmed as far as this is concerned. but the radar plot does show him climbing through 36,300 feet and traveling approximately 100 miles an hour an hour too slow to sustain flight. >> let me ask you this. we have the head of the indonesian national search and rescue agency now saying, it's his conconjecture that based on early data this plane is now at the bottom of the sea. how much confidence can we put in that early data? >> well the early data that i'm presuming he's working...

Heavily trafficked area capture the plane? >> well, i think it's what we're seeing is the possibility that air traffic controllers knew there was a problem and they knew it very quickly. unlike the malaysian 370 event. that's what we have to work with. at this point, that's all we can do. >> i know you're a busy man. i'm sure a lot of people are wanting to call you. as we continue this morning, indonesia authorities said the early presumption is flight 8501 is lying there at the bottom of the java sea. very different topography very different ocean floor, as it relates to mh 470 and deep vast ...

The storm or they may have decided to climb regardless of clearance which would be extremely unusual. in terms of the radar plot here the speed given i believe would be the ground speed and not air speed, indicated air speed to control the flight of the air control. one would expect to have a significant difference in speed between the indicated and ground speed. that radar in itself is not entirely conclusive. i believe there were winds of some 40 knots at that altitude. that has to be taken into account too. it is rather difficult to make a decision. as you get to higher altitude air is thin...

>> well, the aircraft and pilots in this particular region are well equipped and well trained and experienced in this kind of monsoonal fly. so it's not unusual for them to be operating. it is not unsafe except in these particular circumstances we looked at the radar plot and it appeared that a good portion of the java sea was blocked by level five thunderstorms. those are the most thunderstorms known. these are the monster storms that reach up to 60,000 feet. we saw some aircraft passing on the north, northeast side of the storm but these storms can grow and shift very quickly. the area that ...