welcome back to our continuing coverage of the missing flight 8501. our aviation correspondent, richard quest says airasia has a very good reputation for safety. the budget carrier has not had a crash since its malaysia operations began in 2001. it has been in service for six years and accumulated approximately 23,000 flight hours. >> we also learned the plane's last scheduled maintenance was recently just november 16. flight 8501's captain has more than 20,000 flying hours, and the co-pilot almost 2300 flying hours. that's according to the airline. >> now earlier a correspondent from the wall street journal spoke with us about airasia and its safety record. >> caller: it's a very well run airline and everybody accepts
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