and the ceo, tony fernandes has been actively updating his social media pages since the plane went missing. this is one of his latest tweets. it says keeping positive and staying strong my heart bleeds for all the relatives of my crew and our passengers. nothing is more important to us. well it does feel like deja vu. another plane vanishing near where the malaysian airlines flight disappeared just ten months ago. a lot of people making connections. and jim clancy shows the differences and similarities and what lessons have been learned. there s some disconcerting similarities between the malaysian air flight and airasia. malaysian airlines disappeared within an hour. the airasia flight disappeared
in what we convey so we present things as accurately as possible. you don t want to provide false hope but you don t want to say definitively this is what happened. we don t have anything that they have confirmed at this moment. one of the big lessons we all thought came out of mh 370 was this issue of communication. and, again, we have a malaysian operated airline with officials going out there, not exactly being, i guess, thorough in what they re saying not entirelily be entirely being transparent in what is going on. so it would seem that the lessons from mh 370 have not been learned in airasia. reporter: it is key for these family members. and because these briefings are closed and only family members that choose to speak with the
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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many accused malaysian authorities of a coverup. conspiracy theories exploded on the internet even as officials were belatedly trying to set the record straight because whether couldn t be a factor for mh 370, many theories centered on terrorism, although no link to terrorism had been uncovered it was too late, and whatever information released by malaysian authorities seemed meaningless. china took the unusual step of allowing the families to take to the streets in protest. airasia appears to have learn the lessons from the mh 370 tragedy and moved quickly to inform families. indonesia s transport ministry also responded. a passenger manifest and load list were online within hours. critical questions remain. in the hours and days ahead, radar ever ors and search efforts may reveal answers for