wind check
when you find a plane that has crashed , and at the time it went missing there was a giant thunderstorm, guessing the wx is a factor is not really that dumb.
hours don't mean much. we don't know what happened for sure and I would like to know if the wx radar was working properly.
the effects of thunderstorms can be realized dozens of miles from the actual cloud. Hail, even severe or extreme turbulence.
We shall see.