malaysia has been particularly bad hit with epic flooding. at least ten people killed and more than 160,000 people forced from their homes. so 2014 has not just been bad in the skies, jake. malaysia has been severely tested this year. elise labott, thank you so much. appreciate it. the mystery and geography have led to easy comparisons between the disappearances of the airasia flight and malaysian airlines flight 370 from earlier this year there are also some distinct differences. for starters the search area for flight 370 was much deeper in the southern indian ocean compared to the more shallow and heavily trafficked java sea. then there are the sizes of the search areas, for flight 370, it was about the size of west virginia ultimately. for airasia, at least right now, it s about the size of west virginia and south carolina combined. of course, it is early in that search. and then there are the circumstances under which both planes went down, such as the weather. it was crystal
flight s disappearance, that raises other questions, such as why, according to the wall street journal, nearly a dozen other planes managed to fly through that same region at roughly the same time without incident? i m joined now by cnn aviation analyst les and jeff. as far as we know the missing airasia flight was the only one in that area to request a new flight path on sunday morning. could this flight have encountered a dangerous weather event in that area that somehow the other flights in the area avoided? absolutely, jake. this is a thunderstorm environment that s dynamic. it s constantly involving thunderstorms, being created or being built or dissipated. in this particular case more than likely with the mass of weather that was shown by tom foreman just recently, it s obvious this was a building
cnn s david is live in indonesia. you re about an hour from daybreak there. what s day three of the search going to look like? reporter: hi, jake. good morning. it s 4:00 in the morning here tuesday in surabaya. i m just outside the international airport here where that airasia flight took off about two days ago, lost on radar some 46 hours ago. definitely getting the sense that momentum is building toward an all-out search. this would be the second full day of searching, day two monday we saw about 15 ships and 30 aircraft searching areas of the java sea. that s according to the indonesian vice president. the area is increasing now, moving from seven sections to about 11. it s done on a grid system where they can search and check things off. we re hearing local reports that they may actually include parts of land some of the islands a
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government for the work that we re doing in relation to surveillance. we do have a close relationship with indonesian. it is in many ways our most vital relationship. because it s right there. it s there. and it s 8,000 islands, ten times the australian population enormous number of indonesian students in australia. indeed it appears to be at least one of the folk on board the aircraft was a student at an australian university. so it s quite a in tourism, it s intermeshed. the foreign minister herself has said in recent times she traveled on an airasia aircraft she does travel on airasia. the eu has banned all but five of indonesia s airlines. i m wondering if there s concern