trainee is fariq hamid. weeks later, he would again be in the right hand seat, this time as first officer of malaysia airlines flight 370. march 7, 2014, kuala lumpur malaysia, in one of the busiest cities in southeast asia, millions of people are on the move. including phillip wood, an ibm executive. thousands of miles away in beijing, the day begins as usual for his partner, sara bajak. i get up early. i drink coffee and look out over the sun rise. we live next to an apple orchard. i do yoga every morning, eat my oatmeal and go to work. in thorly morning hours, phil will take the red eye home to sara in beijing.
know much about them, casey siegel is live with more. casey, you spoke to some of phillip wood s family members. to say this last two weeks has been difficult may just be an understatement. most of his closest family does live here in a suburb of dallas. his father has told journalists he believes his son is in fact still alive and they are certainly not giving up hope. phillip s brothers describe the 50-year-old ibm employee as a guy who had a zest for life and was excited about soon moving in with his girlfriend in call call kuala lumpur. actually in a recent e-mail said, every day is a gift, and that s really how he lived. he approached it. the wood family says they have been glued to television reports following every single twist and turn in this very
[bell rings] this.is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain. .and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for. .all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] roll sound! action! welcome back. we ll get back to shep live in oxford, mississippi, in just a moment. in the meantime, the search continues. the missing malaysian airlines plane. the family of the passengers and crew still have no answers about what may have happened to their loved ones. among those missing, three americans, including phillip wood who was headed to beijing where he moved for work a few years ago. his girlfriend told abc news, quote, i m prepared to find him and i m prepared to find he is not with us anymore. but the risk of not knowing frightens me the most. officials say, two other americans onboard the flight, four-year-old and a two-year-old, though, we don t
so just about two weeks now into this full disappearance, and, greg, these poor family members just want some sort of closure, as you can imagine. this has just been horrific for them over the last 14 days or so following all of the ups and downs, the new theories that have been introduced, first they thought it crashed, then they thought perhaps this notion it was hijacked and maybe landed safely somewhere. so, these people just want some answers so they can begin the grieving process. it s in the unknown that makes it so difficult. we mentioned phillip wood. obviously his family and brother are very concerned. if you look at the social networking sites there are questions a great many people have about the other two americans onboard, as we mentioned, four-year-old and a two-year-old. clearly they would not have been unescorted onboard the plane. a lot of people are wondering what exactly do we know, if
anything, at all about them and give their age we re sensitive to center their family s privacy. any idea about that? we re trying to work on that with our contact at the state department. as you mentioned they are extremely young, two years old and four years old. they had american passports but they have chinese names, so there is some thought, some speculation, that they were born in the united states, parents of chinese nationals, and that s really all we know at this point. we re trying to track information down in terms of who exactly they were traveling with, if they were traveling with their parents or perhaps with an aunt or uncle, something of that nature. we just know from the state department that it was three americans, phillip wood and two young children, but about the two children, details still very sketchy weeks out. casey, we ll check back with you, and we re going to get back to shepard myth in just a moment shepard smith in just a moment, reporting live from