[JonDuke]

Originally Posted by Acey

Weather looks absolutely horrible in the area, towering storms up to 53,000 feet. Could be anything, but it's my early guess. If anything, I hope they find the damn airplane.

And as a controller, I'll add the "unusual routing" thing means absolutely nothing. I'm almost sure they were asking for deviations around the very weather that could have brought them down.

Sure does look nasty...