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Horrifying. >> very sad. >> our hearts go out foth families as we pray for them today. thanks. >> the ariel search for the plane resumes in just a few hours from now, about an hour and a half when it will be daybreak and airasia is the secondary carrier based in malaysia to have an airline vainish without warning. meanwhile hundreds were trapped on a ferry that caught fire. we'll have the latest on the efforts to save those passengers.

To burn even after the evacuation of the planes. the latest pictures show a total loss. the fuselage of the airplane consumed by fire. the critical thing to look at are the wings, if not separated, they have been twisted away. the engines have detached as well as the tail section. that leads open a huge range of possibilities. the airplane at a high range. made a tail strike. very unclear. this is incredible popular safe plane. the boeing 777 made in the mid-1990s. they have sold a ton of them. to my knowledge, there's never been a fatal crash involving a 777. the weather picture appears to be...

35,000 feet when investigators say pilots lost control while manually attempting to avert bad weather by climbing over high thunderstorm clouds. the plane hit severe turbulence, stalled and crashed, killing all 170 people on board. >> oftentimes when a pilot is trying to get out of a storm they're really trying to save the aircraft. they're really doing all kinds of heroic measures trying to save an aircraft and when you're in a storm and the engine is literally choking like you're choking yourself you're trying to get power back. >> in 2009 airfrance flight 447 crashed over the atlantic killi...

These planes accurate enough? >> yes, it is. this plane was also last serviced on november 16. so everything had been checked. everything was working. this part of the world is quite a modern plane, a very good, safe plane. air asia has a very good safety record. this is the first plane they've lost. everything seemed to be perfectly normal. >> all right, terry, live from malaysia malaysia, thank you very much for updating us. eric? >> well as you noticed, there were dense storm clouds in the area where the flight disappeared. thunderstorms totalled 50,000 feet. that's far above the operationa...

Control the plane during high tesh lens. just 10% of crashes since 2004 occurred while a plane was in mid flight. >> there were huge thunderstorms a t the time the flight vanished and here you can actually see the storm activity take a look at this. in the area during the time the plane lost radar contact and then disappeared. this is satellite picture. we know the pilot even asked to change his flight path because of all this severe weather in the area. joining me now is aviation analyst and faa licensed pilot. thank you so much for talking to us. it seems this flight was lost due to weather....