will answer the many questions surrounding this air tragedy? look almost certainly, i mean we re talking sort of a 100% certainty that we will get all of the answers from those two boxes. but if the two pilots had been discussing the issue and are talking about the problem they have got that will tell a lot almost immediately. the rate of descent for the cabin pressure everything that has basically gone wrong, i suppose, and the final minutes of the flight will be evident from the flight data recorder. okay it is not the final story because there is a lot more associated with this. the actual report will take a year probably at least to be produced. and that will go into all sorts of other data including the decision-making process, and that is the big issue at this moment. i m very concerned about the decisions made leading up to the flight being in jeopardy in a
the live scene from the singapore airport, where that flight was expected to land many hours ago now. it was expected over five hours ago. still missing. weather has been the headline as we talk with experts, aviation analysts about what might have been happening in those skies. and derek van dam joins us now. you and i were just talking 24 hours ago about the exceptional weather this region has been getting, and it was indeed getting some at the time of this short flight. yeah, that s correct. that flight being should have lasted about two hours, but it encountered some severe convection, or in other words thunderstorms. this is the latest from the flight radar 24 website. this is the path from surabaya to singapore. there s the missing plane, airasia flight 8501. i want you to pay attention. this is just moments before it
that voice their opinions about this flight being shot down. in fact, one politician is calling for anti-missile technology on all passenger jets. still to come on our special coverage, would that technology have protected flight mh-17? take them on the way you always have. live healthy and take one a day men s 50+. a complete multivitamin with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. age? who cares. he cadillac summer collection is here. during the cadillac summer s best event, lease this 2014 ats for around $299 a month and make this the summer of style.
restart, because out iron dome, this is not like what we saw with mh-17, the probability of any flight being shot down or anything like that. in terms of what the disaster of the malaysian airlines flight 17 disaster, the ripple effect that has had, one would think this is a direct result of that and that we will maybe see more of this from a security perspective, a real cog any sans over a war zone. the shoulder fired infrared missiles that can hit airplanes on takeoff and landing. that s a huge problem around north africa. and i think aviation officials are going to be far, far more attuned to those threats. michael leiter, thank you as always for your time and thoughts.
you think they would do that? i think they are doing that to hide what s really happened to the plane. now whether that purely a malaysian activity or if other countries are involved, i don t know. i mean i really don t know why or how they pulled it off. but i refuse to believe that the malaysian military ignored a 777 in their airspace. there was one of the family members, a young gentleman who pushed forward an idea that he had had noticed from people he knew that the jet had actually been accompanied by fighter planes for some period of time. there was some witness to that. now that s the first time i ever heard of that prior to this meeting. but that actually makes a lot more sense than a flight being ignored by the military. so, i think we need to have better view into where that plane ultimately went and who