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we re live with that story. the dow breaking more records last week. will the highs continue in 2015? your meal on a wheel. a ferris wheel that is. as a dining experience reaches new heights. we have got the details for you. new information in the search for the missing airasia flight 8501. an australian search plane spotting oil patches as well as unknown objects floating in the java sea not far from the jetliner s last location. testing now to see if the oil came from the aircraft. the plane vanished midway through its flight from indonesia to singapore with 162 people on board. just moments after another aviation disaster in that part of the world. joining us, laura ending gell joining from us our new york city newsroom with the latest. reporter: hi, arthel. if this airasia flight confirmed to have gone down killing all on board this would make 2014 the worst year for loss of life in
workhorse in the aviation industry. that has a good safety record. they re not ruling anything out technical fault, foul play. there was no may day or disdistress signal released and there were other planes flying in that vicinity. there are a lot of questions. there are questions for the families of passengers at both airports singapore and surabaya. sadly this kind of scene is all too familiar in this region. it has not been a good year for air travel in southeast asia. airasia is malaysia-based. all our viewers remember that it was malaysia airlines plane shot down over ukraine in july. and it s a malaysia airlines plane, again a different airline but based in malaysia plane that went missing disappeared over the south indian sea back in march. still no trace of that. of course the rescuers, the
civil aviation in the last nine years. that is according to the netherland s based aviation safety network which compares death toll of disasters in 2005 where 1014 people were killed in passenger accidents. if it turns out all on board the airasia flight died it would bring this year total loss of life in aviation crashes to 924 people. eerily similar scenario happened earlier this year when malaysia flight mh370 dropped off the radar. that plane has still not been found. whether asia played a major role in this asia case though colonel jim hampton a former fighter pilot may not be the whole factor. asking about to change course and asking to flame, that is nothing out of the ordinary. guys do that all the time to avoid weather. could weather be the program? yeah. does anybody really know what happened at this point point?
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.