trafficked air routes in the asia pacific. very heavy traffic route. this airspace this airplane was over was very routinely trafficked. we have a lot of bad weather in the region too, especially at this time of year. airplanes always fly around bad weather. they land in bad weather. they take off in bad weather. and so it's very routine stuff. it's a very routine airspace, very routine stuff. and that's of course what makes something like this so shocking and such a big thing because it's so unusual. >> right. but in this area and especially this time of year, this is the monsoon region and we've been reporting heavily on all the flooding people in this region are dealing with. storms this storm in particular was at 52,000 feet. so although pilots and this pilot had 6,000 hours, although they train for weather it's hard to say where you go when a