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This dramatic discovery has been 15 months in the making and francis rivera my colleague, is here with the latest on this. it really is a big reminder to think how far we've come since it went missing march of 201. >> 15 months. you can forget the developments since then. let's get everyone back up to speed. several unanswered questions remain. let's start with a boeing 777. it took off from kuala lumpur at 12:41 a.m. the flight was carrying 227 passengers from 14 countries including the united states. and at 2:40 a.m. air traffic control lost contact as it was about to enter vietnam's airspac...

This damage that's happening on a nearby road. this brings you into the storms. >> just by touching the map. >> the one called weather radio. don't be fooled by the name. it will read to you through siri's voice alerts from the national weather service. it actually shows you, you can see where lightning is currently striking on the map. let me bring it back up here. it's amazing that you can set this up. while it's $5 download on this, it's got lightning strikes around the country. you can set youro own location, your school, your home. pretty incredible. gets you really honed in. they're pate...

And i've called a friend of mine who is an aviation expert he happens to also be in australia. had a lock at some of the radar tracking and saw they were at 36,300 feet or something, and 350 knots. he was sort of speculating as we all are at the moment that that was a bit slow. is that a risk in this situation when you're climbing to get above or around a thunderstorm what happens if your speed is a little too slow? >> if any circumstance if your speed is a bit too slow that's not good. it also can be not good if it's too fast. there's a high-speed stall and a slow-speed stall. as you go highe...

Have a repeat of 370 where they did not look at the radar immediately, where they did not look at every possible source to locate the plane. we've learned from 370 that it is absolutely vital at this moment to grab every possible positioning clue that you can. you can't wait a minute. you can't wait an hour. they must grab all that radar now and start tracking it so it is not lost like 370. >> and as we look at this route, as we look at the route the flight was flying from surabaya, indonesia on its way to singapore, with what you know of the route itself is this an area that would have had mi...

370. but they did indicate that they did have radar tracking. so whether or not they have it at this point the point is to get the information immediately so they do not spend time -- for example, on 370 four days were lost searching in the south china sea, and later the malaysian military indicated that they knew the plane had taken a turn and gone up and around indonesia. so at this point it's important not to have any sort of wild hares, if you will, and look at places it should not be but instead grab everything to try to pinpoint as quickly as possible because without that tracking on the...