Pieces of luggage, whatever i could do to get myself inside there and then lieutenant katano i cant pronounce his name right now. Its too hard. He came behind me and i started passing him luggage. We wanted to pass the luggage out so we could get the fire crew out there. At that time it was pretty safe. There was smoke in the air. The fire crew was doing a good job suppressing the heat. So i went inside there and a lot of people had injuries and couldnt move out of their seats. They were also just scared to move. I was with the fire crew and follow off with them what to do, trying to get back towards them in there. We started i started coughing and the lieutenant, she started coughing, too. She started taking off her spider pack because it was pretty safe and started filling up with smoke and then we look up and were just about ready to go out and black pillow of smoke came rushing towards us. And then our next goal was to try to get people away from the plane and trying to get people
Search has been halted until daylight. Unfortunately no new facts. But let me redo this statement from the airlines ceo. He says we will deeply shocked and saddened by this incident. Were cooperating with the authorities to the fullest extent to determine the cause of this incident. But meanwhile our main focus is keeping our families informed. Lets begin with cnns aviation correspondent Richard Quest, he joins me now, and i believe we have Andrew Stevens up. Hes at the airport and hes been there for a few hours now. Andrew how are officials and families dealing with whats happened . Reporter its a very very tough situation as you can imagine, brian, the families have been gathering here. We understand that they have been taken to a hotel nearby. They are airasia staff, obviously with them. Were also being told that ceo Tony Fernandez, he touched down earlier, about two or three hours ago, and is also expected to be seeing those family members as well. But at this stage there is as Ton
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