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Our thoughts and prayers are with all family and friends of those on board qz8501. let s take you back now to our meteorologist derek van dam. you have been giving us so much vital interesting information about what perhaps this airliner was flying through, derek, when they made the call that they needed to deviate and find a different route. no doubt, natalie there, was extreme rough weather in the area at the last point of contact with this particular missing plane. but pilots, keep this in mind, pilots are trained to fly around big thunderstorms. they want to prevent an uncomfortable flight for you and i. they want to make it as comfortable as possible, avoid areas of turbulence, which would be thunderstorms. it s just that these thunderstorms can form so quickly. the typical life span of a thunderstorm, for instance-s typically 45 minutes, and it can shoot up to altitudes of 40,000, even 50,000 feet. ....
Autopilot, can it shift up to altitudes of 40,000, down to 15, up to 35, down to 12, back up to 35,000 and fly another six hours? does that make sense? i think mark made an important point about this. if it had gone down to 12,000 altitude which your story and reports has said it did at one point at least and if it continued on for the rest of the flight at that altitude, it would have swallowed much more gas than if it was at 30,000 feet which means it wouldn t have gone as far as we think it went. inmarsat people have said that they don t have accurate information on the altitude of the plane. can a plane on autopilot shift altitude, mark? no. really what you re doing if you breakdown the term, autopilot, it s staying where you put it. so the point being, if it goes down to 12,000 as it goes ....