CNN weather reporter said the plane itself could not do this under normal conditions but with a 100 mph updraft and possibly fist sized hail outside, the plane could be thrown 6000 feet to 9000 feet vertically by an updraft in the storm. However, whether both the wings and the tail were still on the plane at this point or whether all front windows were gone from fist sized hail is another question entirely. At that point the plane after gaining 6000 to 9000 feet from an updraft went straight down into the ocean basically.
So, if I understand this it went from 32,000 feet to around 38,000 feet to 40,000 feet very quickly in less than a minute at which point it went basically straight down into the ocean which likely means either the front windows were gone and the pilots were dead from huge hail or one or both wings were off to make full sense of this occurrence.
In the U.S. the flight rules say pilots MUST fly around this type of huge thunderhead that reaches up to 50,000 feet high. However, there are different flight rules than this in Indonesia. So, hopefully the next flight in Indonesia will be told to fly around a huge thunderstorm like this one and given the clearance by air traffic controllers to do so.
Chad Meyers who is a CNN Weatherman made the point about how the plane couldn't do what it did just with the power on board because it couldn't pull that many G's under normal circumstances but did on this occasion just before it crashed into the ocean.
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