Twohour flight. That plane right now is missing. 162 people on board. Passengers of course seven of them are crew members, 18 of them are children including one infant. We now have word from Indonesian Television reports that the search has resumed as daylight has broken there. The search going on between the indonesian island of java and singapore. The flight should have taken, as i said just less than two hours. The captain radioed to the ground that the weather was a problem. Then nothing. This womans fiance was on board that plane. I listened to the radio, local radio, and they said that his plane was missing. Thats all the. And, yeah, he wasit was supposed be our last vacation before us got married, was to be his last vacation with his family. It is heartbreaking. Let me go to will ripley following this for us in beijing. We know that daybreak has come. We know that the weather has gotten better. That is good for search and rescue. What do we know in terms of whos out there search
Infant. People around the world are watching and waiting for any word from the search and rescue crews and during this sunday mass today at the vatican, the pope pope francis, prayed for those crews and for the families of the people who are on board and who are missing. This plane was last tracked over the java sea. Take a look at this. Were going to pull up a map to show you the part of the world were talking about here. The plane took off from surabaya second biggest city in indonesia, destination, singapore, just a twohour flight away. It never made it. Let me bring in les, a captain, and mary schiavo. So, les, let me begin with you. When we talk about the search here and compare it to the search for mh370 youre talking about a smaller area but still a vast region. True. What some are saying is that the good news is that this is a region that is heavily trafficked in terms of a shipping route and is relatively shallow. Does that help . Of course it helps. Its going to help with the
here were from indonesia, a handful from south korea, with another from malaysia one more from singapore and two from europe. one from the uk one from france. what we do know about the french national is local media, indonesian media identified him as remi emanuel, he was the co-pilot of that plane. we re hearing that french authorities are working hand in hand with the indonesian government to try to location airasia flight qz8501. the name of the uk national british national confirmed to be an indonesian-based energy executive, by the name of choy chiman traveling with his 2-year-old daughter a singaporean national. she was one of the youngest passengers on the plane. it s heartbreaking to think about. as you mentioned, poppy, the agonizing wait for the family the unknown. earlier, one of those who said she had a fiance on this flight talked about how she findound out about the disappearance of this plane. i listened to the radio,