thank you very much, david gallo, mary schiavo, les abend, and paul againginsber, tom sate well. our coverage continues of airasia 8051. they're searching for it. back in a moment. >>> we're continuing to follow the disappearance of airasia flight 8501. it is already being compared to the crash of another flight five years ago. air france flight 447. that passenger jet went down over the atlantic ocean now more than five years ago. it killed all 228 people on board. storms, severe storms, did play a role in that disaster. and they're also a potential factor in the case of this missing airasia jet. let me go straight to cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo, she joins us again from charleston, south carolina. also with us again, author of "air safety investigators" al diehl joins us on the phone from albuquerque. let me begin with you, al. when you look at air france 447 and this flight, both airbus planes, different models of airbus. both vanish during bad weather. but tell me a bit more about why we're hearing experts in these early hours comparing these two incidents? >> well, it's