find out what happened, and to carry out some rescues. it is interesting and a rare use of the chinese navy outside of the chinese waters and so that is telling as well. of course, they lost the bulk of the passengers on that plane. thank you to the anchor andrew stoo andrewstein andrew stevens. and as we told you, 239 people left on board, and when we learned the names of the captain and the co-pilot, one name sounded familiar, and i will let richard quest tell that story. reporter: we were filming for cnn business traveler on a flight from hong kong to kualo lump lumpur. and we believe that he is the first officer involved in the particular incident of this
bit. still so many unanswered questions. and really eerie, richard, because you actually met the co-pilot of this this plane and actually sat in the cockpit of a similar aircraft just a few days ago. tell us about him and what you learned from this experience. it was. i mean, we were very lucky and privileged. we had been grant ed to fly on n air flight. filming for cnn business traveler. it was all authorized and properly managed. we had a safety captain who was there as well. and he was flying the aircraft. he s a relatively new experienced first officer. and he was flying the 777 and did a picture perfect landing to kul kuala lumpar. in the left-hand seat was
similar aircraft just a few days ago. you can tell us about that? yes, we were filming for cnn business traveler. the monthly travel program that i do. and we were filming on a flight fr kaala lampur, and during that flight, we were actually with the malaysia airlines. and as the pictures show, we re we can confirm that the first officer who was flying the aircraft, the one you see in this picture is the one who was on board the aircraft. we have reason to believe that the captain was also on the one on the left seat is also involved in the flight that we re talking about tonight. now, it s worth pointing out, and i m just going to give a bit of background to this filming. and this filming was well and truly within the gamut of