Good morning everyone, it is 5 00 a. M. Monday, december 29. Tam is off, Alicia Vitarelli joins us we have news you didnt see last night. An explosive garage fire sends two Police Officers to the hospital. A Police Officer in Gloucester County struck and killed a 10yearold boy while responding to a call. We continue to cover a developing story in asia, a passenger jet is still missing after it lost contact with a air traffic control. David is here and matt pellman is in for karen rogers. Reporter we have showers over south jersey and a little more over baltimore that might pop over the city. Those of you in Atlantic County and Cape May County and delaware roads are slightly wet. As we look to the west, theres break up in the cloud cover around the great lakes. We expect the sun to return as we go through the day. Part of the afternoon might end up partly sunny. Temperatures not too bad. 41 in philadelphia. 38 in trenton. A little bit cooler up north. 43 in sea isle city. Theres a breez
The Malaysia headquartered AirAsia airline, which would soon add Jaipur, Vishakhapatnam and Ahmedabad to its route map, is looking to add more Indian Tier 2/3 cities, said a senior official of the.
situation. and the fact there s a lot of traffic in that area doesn t necessarily mean those other aircraft reports can assist you. you re hanging on that radar i suspect and trying to stay out of the severe stuff. the worst, if you will, the turbulence. lightning, icing, perhaps even hail. a lot of things can happen when you enter the world of weather. absolutely. and i m certain that is a lot of the practice for a pilot. i certainly remember the wind shear story from dallas because that was a new term we all learned when that happened. the pitot tubes. that was another new term we heard when that disaster happened. we certainly don t know the outcome of this situation here. but let s turn to the weather for a moment just to talk about this airline. if people don t know this airline, what do you know about airasia and their flight safety record? well, i frankly have to confess i know very little. i haven t done the internet
there on your screen, showing you the map there from indonesia to singapore when it went missing. the plane lost contact at 7:24 a.m. indonesian local time, more than five hours ago. it was scheduled to land just a few minutes later. it had 162 people on board. 155 passengers, seven crew members. the pilot had asked to change the plane s route. a deviation. because of weather. we ve been giving you the breakdown in great detail about the thunderstorms in the area at that time. air asia says that search and rescue operations are under way. we just heard from dr. diehl there that two c-130s are involved. and we are awaiting additional information from the airline. airasia has released a list of the nationalities of those on board. 156 are indonesian. others foreigners. three from south korea. one is from singapore. one from malaysia. and one from france.
it. that s a clue that others had made it through just fine. but with this kind of storm build-up it can change very, very quickically. and also planes just a few miles apart with experience vastly different conditions. and it also depends on the input the pilots put on the controls. on the air france 447 had they realized the dire nature of the situation of course they could have made control input. same thing on the crash i mentioned, the west caribbean airways. so the weather s highly significant. and though others were going through it they could have faced even ten miles behind another plane, could have faced a vastly different situation, depending exactly where they were on the storm system. but they have a lot of information as i mentioned. they can get information from air traffic control, from their own airline, to other information from other pilots. but it s really them. they are the ones that are up there and they have to thread