nbc's katie ture has more. >> reporter: officials know where and when this plane went off radar, so in theory they should have a pretty good idea of where it is. after a full day of searching in the daylight yesterday, still no sign of it. the airbus a-320 200 took off from surabaya bound for singapore. at 6:13 the pilot asked to change course and climb higher to avoid the clouds. only the course change was approved. at 6:17 42 minutes into the flight contact was lost. no distress call received. there was severe weather at the time including high winds, thunderstorms and lightning. >> severe turbulence can extend from 20 miles from the thunderstorms. even if you try to go around the storms you're going to have a problem. >> reporter: the possible weather factor a reminder of what happened when air france flight that crashed in the atlantic ocean off brazil in 2009. >> the storm affected the technology in the aircraft and it interrupted the auto pilot flying the aircraft at the time led to the pilots being unable to maintain control of the aircraft and went down. >> reporter: the captai