as the hunt for a missing airasia jet gets back under way, china is sending aircraft and ships to join the search operation. cnn s will ripley joins us live from beijing. will, what s the latest there? reporter: well brianna, even though there weren t any chinese passengers on this flight china has much more invested in this. in surabaya the majority of people are ethnically indonesian chinese. so china has an interest in getting their assets to this area joining the nine countries that are going to be part of this search. china, it s very important after investing a considerable amount of resources to search for the missing flight 370, a search that s turned up nothing so far, it s important for china to get involved in this and have a different outcome than the one earlier this year. as you know brianna, 154
the mystery of what happened to the airasia jet is renewing calls for better tracking devices aboard airliners. cnn business correspondent alison kosik looked into the available technology. reporter: right now when an airplane disappears the story of what went wrong vanishes with the black box. but what if we had those answers all along? we would know where the aircraft has gone where it is and we would have information on what happened in the meantime. reporter: canadian company flight makes live streaming data recorders that send information in real time. it s part of a satellite-based system that monitors a plane s exact location engine conditions and more. the system transmits every
wrong, that we really can t speculate. we don t want to speculate until we find the aircraft. we know what went wrong. we ll look into it and see what we need to improve. if we need to improve. but it is speculation at the moment. bottom line the amount that he s been communicating on social media with the families stands in stark contrast to the ceo of malaysian airlines after mh 370 disappeared. that got a lot of negative headlines, misinformation text messages sent to the families saying their loved ones were gone. not the way it should have been. what we need to see, continued communication going forward in this as we have they search for the plane. so crucial. thanks for your report. stay right here for more on the search on the airasia jet. we have a new response from a top house republican about a report that he gave a speech to a white supremacist group in 2002. cnn s athena jones the details.
we re monitoring the search for the missing airasia jet that s getting back under way after 48 hours with no sign of the plane. the airline based in malaysia where a nation is reeling from air disasters, including, of course the flight 370 mystery. our global affairs correspondent elise labbot has more on this. reporter: air carriers from malaysia were involved in three air mishaps this year. for the third time this year an agonizing wait as loved ones brace for news for the fate of 162 people aboard an airasian flight.
no. reporter: some significant fatal aviation crashes presumed 239 people called in the malaysia airlines case and 298 people killed in the malaysia airlines crash in ukraine. even before the airasia jet went missing, 762 people lost their lives in fatal air disasters. 2014 will have a record number of low crashes, seven despite the nature of this year s disasters, eight if airasia confirmed to gone down. in 2005, there were 24. laura engle thanks very much. jon? jon: 2014 a very big year for news coverage from the midterm elections in this country to international stories like the fight against ebola and isis. so what did the media get right and wrong in the past year? joining us now with their scorecards, a look back at the biggest stories alan colmes host of the alan colmes show and tammy bruce radio talk show host and fox news contributor.