this region is susceptible to thunderstorm development. it s all because of the dynamics that occur across this region. the northeast monsoon encountering land mass and various other aspects creating the thunderstorm activity. remember, natalie, that turbulence can form from all kinds of factors, that being wind, thunderstorms, flying directly through a jet stream or flying very close to a mountainous region. and this area is indeed very, very mountainous. so we ve had all those factors in place. so weather is certainly a formidable threat across this region. yes, it is now as well. all right, derek, we thank you so much for all of that information. i want to bring in now alan deal. he s a former accident investigator for the ntsb, faa and air force with 40 years experience. he s also the author of the book air safety investigators. alan, you ve been with our coverage, you ve been listening to derek s weather forecast. what does that say to you when you consider what we do know
president obama will offer the assets of the safety board to whichever country is involved. and i do hope they will accept it. unlike malaysia, which slowly allowed some of the outside investigators. eventually they kind of turned to the australians and other countries, but that took a lot of time. and you don t have a lot of time when you re trying to do this kind of investigation. this is certainly a time for cooperation and countries to come together to help one another. listen, we can t thank you enough. alan diehl speaking with us for some time now. you re the author of the book air safety investigators. and we appreciate your expertise, alan, once again. thank you for joining us on our coverage. in case people are just tuning in to this story, it has been several hours now that this asia flight 8501 was to land in singapore. it was en route from surabaya,
difficulty and waters in that area? i think this is a very common flight route. in this difficult weather? we could track within 50 kill opt ometers to this flight so this is nothing extraordinary. it s quite common traffic that you can find almost anywhere around the globe. all right. thank you so much for joining us. i want to bring in allen deel. a former investigate investigator for the ntsb, faa and air force with 40 years experience. the author of the book air
over the atlantic ocean now more than five years ago. if killed all 228 people on board. storm the, severe storms did play a role in that disaster and they re also a potential factor in the case of this missing airasia jet. let me go straight to cnn aviation analyst, mary schiavo, she joins us from charleston south carolina. also with me again, former accident investigator and author of air safety investigators al diel joins me on the phone from albuquerque. let me begin with you, al. when you looked at, okay air france 447 and this flight both airbus planes different models of airbus both vanished during bad weather. tell me a bit more about why we re hearing experts in these early hours comparing these two incidents? well it s because we know that these so-called probes that hang down underneath the nose of the aircraft to measure aircraft they iced up in the case of the air france aircraft. my understanding is airbus has
we re continuing to follow the disappearance of airasia flight 8501. it is already being compared to the crash of another flight five years ago. air france flight 447. that passenger jet went down over the atlantic ocean now more than five years ago. it killed all 228 people on board. storms, severe storms, did play a role in that disaster. and they re also a potential factor in the case of this missing airasia jet. let me go straight to cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo, she joins us again from charleston, south carolina. also with us again, author of air safety investigators al diehl joins us on the phone from albuquerque. let me begin with you, al. when you look at air france 447 and this flight, both airbus planes, different models of airbus. both vanish during bad weather. but tell me a bit more about why we re hearing experts in these