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transportation and cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo. mary, thank you for joining us. we turn to analysts at this time in these hours when you just don t know what happened to an airliner. let s talk about what we do know. the weather factor and the question that the pilot asked for this deviation to go to 38,000 feet and the pilot was dealing with a thunderstorm at 52,000 feet. just that situation right there. let s look at what this pilot, these pilots were dealing with. those are very, very important clues and very important pieces of information for the search and rescue operation. because with that request we know obviously that the pilots were facing a bad weather situation, they needed that deviation. the on-board radar which this plane has, a fairly new airbus. they would be able to see they couldn t see the kind of weather radar that you would have from a weather operation at