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have that much time. this is an area known for thunderstorms. not that infrequent at all. how big would, in your experience would money be. send the planes up anyway in these big storms and didn t offer a large diversion? does that factor in? if we send them too far, this is going to cost more money to get the plane from a to b? i think that we minimize the financial risk often, more often than we d like to admit. it s not unusual for an airline dispatcher to send a crew off or pilots to go off knowing there s bad weather ahead because the weather is so dynamic we can assume that an hour from the time we take off it may completely change by the time we get there. but when you start talking about needing to make, you know 90-degree turns to try to find a way through weather that might take you a hundred miles off course before you can get
searching for any signs of wreckage right now. as we have been reporting this evening there are new reports of smoke spotted on an island in the search zone. two cessna jets have apparently been dispatched to the area to check the scene. we are also learning more about the captain of this flight. a former indonesian military pilot with more than 20,000 flying hours. and he was last seen by his family at the recent funeral of his brother. joining me now scott brener, former faa senior official and vice president at gebhart government affairs. great to see you both again. let me start with you on this, scott. your thoughts first of all, on the circumstances we ve seen tonight. last we spoke of course it was mh-370 and the question was how does an airplane just disappear. are we in any familiar territory here? because once again we have an airplane that disappears.
breaking tonight, ships, planes and helicopters now scouring the waters off indonesia s coast in search of missing airasia flight as we reported at the top of the hour we re getting new reports of smoke spotted on an island in a search zone. two cessna jets have been dispatched to the area to check on signs of possible wreckage. in addition a u.s. navy destroyer is en route to the java sea to assist in the search and expected to arrive within the next few hours. airasia flight 8501 flying from indonesia to singapore yesterday when it hit bad weather and suddenly dropped off of the radar, seemingly to disappear. there were 162 people onboard including 16 children and one infant. trace gallagher has a closer look at the plane s final moments as it hit bad weather. megyn, it s very common for pilots to try to go around bad weather, but trying to go over bad weather is an indication