holiday season kick off on january 1. and also not giving supporters enough time to apply for the necessary permissions to protest under russian law. you need permission to do that. nevertheless supporters are still planning a protest in moscow s main square for later tonight. likely to be an illegal protest. and we can expect a police response. erin thanks for that update. and tony fernandez, the ceo of airasia has released a statement on twitter reading in part my heart is filled with sad nsa for the families involved. words cannot express how sorry i am. we ll have more on this breaking news from indonesia when we come back. you re watching cnn.
the black boxes will tell us about that. i wanted to ask you about this ceo of of airasia. he s been speaking in the last hour or two, tony fernandes taking questions, refusing to speculate but once again making it absolutely clear that he s the ceo of the company, the buck stops with him and he s spending his time with the families with them explaining helping and providing that which is necessary and most crucially saying to everyone i ain t going anywhere. we will provide whatever is necessary. tony is one of those ceos who this is his first major accident and you can tell. richard quest, lieutenant colonel, thank you so much for your insight. i appreciate it. still to come, the passengers aboard airasia flight 8501 have their stories and so do the passengers who never showed up for that flight. that s next. the holiday season is here, which means it s time for the volkswagen sign-then-drive event.
suspected. they ve been pessimistic now for a couple of days and haven t been shy about saying we believe this thing is at the bottom of the ocean floor. we do believe that the medical steam arriving to help some of medical team is arriving to help some of the family. and the ceo of airasia will be arriving at a location close to where the debris has been found. he, of course, offering condolences and saying he will continue praying for the family members. he tweeted a short time ago, i m quoting, my heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved. my condolences to all. words cannot express how sorry i am. he has been out front and on top of this. you see video of family. we ve been talking to them, hearing from them. a lot of sadness. some, frankly, have been surprised they have perspective. one saying, you know, this is life, and things like this happen. they are getting word. such a tough time for them. this could be it, and getting that closure and maybe movin
diminished. we have better information. if they fly into this thunderstorm david, there were reports all over there, what are the challenges that a pilot faces flying through these storms that did appear to exist at the time the flight disappeared. it s a matter of deciding which is the least dangerous. at that point looking at what the situation was, with storms coming from both areas, the clouds building up more quickly than you can climb above them. so all of this is happening at once so you are looking for what is the best situation to go into which is the lesser of two evils, really so that s the situation that pilot versus to face. i want you to back up a seconds here and talk to us from your role as an advocate really for the families of those people involved with flight disasters the ceo of airasia, he has been on twitter. he has been fairly folk e vocal, which seems to me a bit of a departure from what we saw nine months ago, do you think there have been lessons learned