a no-frills airliner. there were 162 people listed on the flight manifest 155 passengers and seven crew most on board indonesians. there were some others. there were three south koreans. one singaporean, and one french person on board. the list included 17 children and an infant. we are also told by one of our analysts from the region that 17 people listed on that flight did not board. there were 17 no-shows. the ceo of airasia, tony fernandez, is now on his way to surabaya. earlier, he tweeted this short statement thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. we must stay strong. we are covering this from many angles. we ve been talking with analysts for hours now about what perhaps, happened.
this is what we know about who was on board, 162 people listed on the flight manifest 155 passengers seven crew. most on board, indonesians, but also three south koreans, one singaporean, one malaysia and one french person on board. among the passengers are 17 children and one infant. president obama on holiday with his family in hawaii has been briefed on the situation. we learned that from our correspondent, michelle kosinski who s keeping tabs on any u.s. involvement in trying to help with this situation. we haven t heard anything about that yet, because it s early on. but the ceo of airasia, tony fernandes is on his way to surabaya where this flight originated. and he tweet add short statement a while ago, saying thank you for your thoughts and prayers. we must stay strong. he followed that up with another
airasia flight 8501. it was en route from the city there on the bottom part of your screen surabaya to singapore when it lost contact with air traffic control early undsunday morning. it was a short flight just under two hours long. the pilot at some point well into the flight i believe asked to change routes because of the weather. and soon afterwards contact with that airport airplane was lost. this is a picture of the plane we re talking about. it s an airbus a-320. we do know how many people were on that flight now. 162 on the flight manifest. that s 155 passengers and seven cry. most on board were indonesians with three south koreans, one singaporean, one from malaysia and one french person on board. we have also learned of the
all contact was lost with the airplane. most of that plane s flight path took it over open water. and if you re looking at the map here that green country, where you see the plane was, not really over but from the perspective of the map, it looks like it. that s malaysia. of so this is the region that has seen two air disasters in this past year. that right there shows where this plane was when air traffic control lost contact with the airplane over the java sea. we know that there are c-130s there, ships in that region. this is a very busy transit area of the sea, very busy with maritime traffic. but so far we don t have any information on any sighting of this plane. there were 162 people listed on the flight manifest 155
recorders. it tells us so much and really piece together so many questions that we have at this hour from the data recorders, they will learn about the plane s engine and the health of the plane. was there anything wrong with the plane. from the data recorders, we will also be able to hear what kind of conversations were happening in the cockpit. so a lot of questions can be answered once we get our hands on those recorders. renae, just stand by for us because i want to explain the pictures we just put up on our screens. you re looking at pictures from singapore where family members as you see some clearly in some level of distress have been looking through the flight manifest to see if their loved ones were among the 162 people onboard that air asia indonesia flight. people in singapore, family members, extremely worrying