1、·第3页：划红精讲It has been two days and still no sign of the AirAsiajetliner that disappeared over the Java Sea. There'sbeen no confirmation of why the plane wentdown either. The Airbus A320 had 155 passengersand 7 crew members onboard and was on routefrom Indonesia to Singapore.J
2、oining us now is John Cox, an aviation safetyconsult, accident investigator and a former commercial pilot. He's monitoring the AirAsiastory from Tampa, Florida. There's a lot we don't know about the disappearance of thisplane. What do we know at this point?JOHN COX: We know
3、that the airplane was operating in areas where there were large groups ofthunderstorms. We know that they requested a deviation around the thunderstorms and theyrequested a change in altitude. Something occurred after those requests that required theattention of the crew. Ai
4、r traffic control realized that the airplane was no longer on radar veryquickly and notified the appropriate authorities. And right now, that's about all we know.GARCIA-NAVARRO: As you just mentioned, they were trying to avoid a storm cloud when theylost communication with a
5、ir traffic control. Is it too soon to speculate that bad weather wasthe reason for their disappearance?COX: Professional pilots deal with thunderstorms on a very regular basis, and we go aroundthem. We circumnavigate them. You don't fly through thunderstorms. So the fact tha
6、t therewere thunderstorms in the area does not mean that that is a causal factor. That's going to beone of the questions that the investigators are going to have to look at and answer.GARCIA-NAVARRO: Well, you talk about these investigators. People have been searching forthi
7、s plane for two days now. Are you surprised, at this stage, that no sign of it has beenfound?COX: Well, the first day after an accident is usually consumed, for the most part, aboutmoving the assets that you need to conduct the search and rescue. So there's very littleactual
8、 searching that can go on. It's the second day and beyond where you have th
