Also with us peter golds former managing director for the ntsb and rene marsh. But i want to begin in beijing with cnn will riply who has been following the ins and occupants of what we know so far. Will. Reporter what we know is that the families right now in indonesia, dana are going through a similar agony that the families right here in beijing went through in the initial hours after mh370 disappeared where they are waiting at the airport for any information, information that for flight 370 families really still hasnt come they still dont have closure. The situation right now in indonesia, far different. We know air and sea search has suspended for the night because it is now dark here but at first light the century will resume. One thing we know thats also happening larger ships in the java sea will be turning on their large search lights to keep an eye on the water in the overnight hours here for any debris that may turn up. Obviously if a plane came down from a High Altitude if
Flight. The airbus left at 5 30 eastern time last night bound for singapore. Indonesia Officials Say about 45 minutes later, the captain asked to climb above 38,000 feet because of bad weather. Minutes later, the plane disappeared from radar and airline Officials Say they lost contact at 7 24 eastern time. Indonesian Authorities Say they monitored the jet for another half hour before losing contact. The flight was due to land at 8 30 eastern time last night. Now families are desperate for any sign of what may have happened to this plane. The ntsb is now monitoring the situation. The saga is unfolding, of course less than 10 months after Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing en route from kuala kuala kuala kuala lumpur to beijing. Lets go to andrew stevens, he is joining us he landed just a short time in surabaya thats where the missing jet took off from when i was heading to singapore. And now officials are hunkered down at the Crisis Center which is just outside of the main termin
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peter renee, tom, thank you very much for your insights. thank you for watching state of the union, i m dana bash in washington we leave with you live pictures of indonesia airport where the airasia plane was supposed to have landed. good morning, everyone, i m martin savidge, it s 10:00 and you are in the cnn newsroom and we begin with breaking news a search at sea, now suspended after a passenger jet carrying 162 people went missing in southeast asia. officials say large ships with powerful lights will continue to comb the waters for airasia 8
assistance and as they mentioned, the ntsb will be involved in the search effort. but right now the president will continue to get briefed as a part of his daily intelligence briefings. and if the ntsb were requested to come in does the president have to sign off on it? or does the - not on the ntsb s assistance but he would have to sign off on any sort of financial assistance that the state department would be involved in. renee, what if anything is airbus saying about their aircraft? we do no from airbus that they are fully ready to cooperate with the investigation. we know that this was a newer airplane. it was delivered in 2008, so it s a little bit over six years old, airbus telling us it had 28,000 flight hours on this particular aircraft so it is well traveled edso to speak, on that day, where this accident occurred tracking flight radar