A search and rescue mission is underway for a missing passenger plane. The air asia flight which is a malaysiabased Budget Airline took off from indonesia and was due to lands in singapore more than seven hours ago. Gerald tan has the latest. Reporter asat the airport pima pima wait of news of their loved one 162 passenger and crew were aboard the flight to singapore. The plane and air bus through 20 lost communications with air Traffic Control 42 minutes after take off. Translator i hope for a miracle and may god save them all. I should have been with them but i canceled two weeks ago as i had something to do. I have two friends on board with five family members. Reporter indonesias Disaster Management authorities quickly set up a Crisis Center at the airport to relay any updates of any developments. Translator we are winding our search radius. The indonesian military, National Search and rescue as well as singapore search and rescue have started to move so have our navigation ships w
European leaders hold an insurgent summit in brussels on the crisis in the mediterranean sea. More than a thousand have arrived in the last 24 hours many on rickety overcrowded boats. Lets go there on Barnaby Phillips. Bring us uptodate on the latest of what has happened today. The eye inning coast guarda apparently still pick up hundreds of people. Reporter you can probably see the last handful of migrants getting ready to business embark. 220 all from africa. Almost all men. The Aid Organization said there were four pregnant well on board. 220 picked up overnight off the libyan coast and brought are brought back to catania. Its a daily occurrence and there is no sign of any ebb if you like, to this tide of migrants prepared to fake enormous risks in crossing the made train vinnie, 90 of the departures coming from libya but also some from countries like egypt and the Italian Coast Guard the italian navy, is working day and night to cope with the consequences of this. And the italian P
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