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Natalie, put yourself in the pilot's shoes. for instance just take a moment and look at this particular map, and you'll see how challenging it must have been to navigate through this complex of thunderstorms. you can just see how widespread the thunderstorm activity is across the java sea at the time that we lost contact with the air flight airasia flight 3501 roughly 7:24 in the morning local time on sunday morning. significant amount of thunderstorm activity. they're used to at this time of year of course pilots train, before they get their pilot's license, to avoid thunderstorms at all cost...

Thunder storms this time of year. this is called the northeast monsoon. what we're seeing is a northeasterly wind from the south china sea that is our moftumoft u moist you're source. once it encounters land across this mountainous region, it gets the updraft necessary to create the thunder storm activity. remember thunder storms have updraft and updrafts create turbulence. that's one of the many factors that can create turbulence. wind can create turbulence. flying through a jet stream. proximity to mountain ranges, you name it. lots of occurrences can yocreat turbulence. we're got mountains ...

Path there. some three minutes later no word was heard from again. four minutes later has dropped off the radar. >> good morning, alex. well, i think right now based on early information, it's evident that the crew was monitoring the weather ahead of them along their flight path. they felt that they needed to not only deviate to the west to apparently circumvent navigate the weather but asked for a climb to get over the top of it. this time of year it's been reported the last week or so with the monsoonal rains and flooding that's taken place, we know that the thunderstorm activity down there,...

Singapore, this particular route we are discussing and trying to navigate this thick of thunderstorm activity is nearly impossible. so chances are they encountered some rough weather. but we do know that the pilot did ask to ascend to 38,000 feet. and this is really crucial. because what we're talking about is the tops of thunderstorm clouds even on our satellite imagery, starting to reach the upper levels of our troposphere. we're talking about freezing temperatures. any kind of interaction with a thunderstorm at that high of an altitude we are talking about a possibility of ice, icing on the...

As they traverse through large areas of thunderstorm complexes. we've got very dynamic updrafts and there's also cold air downdrafts. and that is exactly why we experience this turbulence. of course pilots are trained in their airline training to navigate around these storms to make you and i as comfortable as possible as we travel through the air. but with this amount of thunderstorm activity it's almost impossible to miss that area of thunderstorms. remember however, that turbulence is not what brings down thunderstorms, it's the pilot's reaction not turbulence that often leads to engine fai...