all we know right now is that weather is high on the list of probabilities that it could have been a factor. >> caller: yes, and i have had a look at the weather maps and there are three very large red areas on the weather that they were going to fly into. they want to try and fly away from it but i'm afraid looking at the happen, they could have actually flown into another weather system there. there's also the question of icing. the flight may have contracted icing on the wings and it changes the profile of the wings. that is a problem there. he was flying at about 32,000 feet when over when the signal was lost. now that is automatic dependent surveillance. so this is a fly by wire