Never see their loved ones again. I am talking about the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines flight somewhere between the place it disappeared in kuala lumpur and beijing, china. There were some 239 people on board and so far, they have been told to wait for information. Frustrating moments for them. The plane lost contact with the ground more than 24 hours ago now. And not long after this plane vanished the process of notifying the passengers next kin turned out a problem with the manifest, because two people now boarded the now missing flight with stolen or missing passport passports. I want to get in our former reporter to the fbi and assistant analyst, but tom, as we look at this, and reminding our viewers that it is very early to even guess as to what brought this plane down, but how concerned is a detail like this making the investigators in your experiences as the former assistant drirector of the fbi . Well, jim, it is a very important issue to try to resolve of who actually u
and this will take more that in the coming days as we saw in lockerbie, scotland, that told us there was a bomb on board. next, understanding more about the two people. did they travel before? where was their follow-on travel? third, other connections for other passengers. last but not least, you now go back to all intelligence you collect, not necessarily relevant at the time but now who is talking? what e-mails do you see about people potential saying they were involved? these are all the pieces that you have to put together to fill out this picket injure. michael leiter, thank you so much. thanks, alex. a texas company freescale says 12 of them are from malaysia, eight from china. the company is deeply saddened by this news. freescale makes microprocessors and sensors for a variety of
deputy director of the fbi. and andrew stevens is joining us now where he is near the international airport in beijing, and that is the destination of the flight. so it is sunday morning where you are, and andrew, the passengers have been frustrated throughout, and is there any new information to give to the families or hearing anything from the airline? the only new information, jim, is that china has sent two warships to that area where an oil slick was reported by a vietnamese air reconnaissance team, but other than that, nothing at the moment, because the facts are very, very thin. you mentioned freescale there, and looking at who was on that plane from freescale, 12 malaysians and 8 chinese nationals wo worked for freesca freescale, and obviously, a massive tragedy for the company. but the relatives and the friends of those who are on
is nothing to immediately indicate the cause of death here, so it could take weeks to figure out how what happened, because it is that long to find out how long it will take to get the toxicology reports back. and thank you, alexandra graeme in the field. and now, new into cnn, an austin-based company freescale semiconductor says that 12 of the employees are from malaysia and 8 from china which is 20 employees of that company were on that flight, but none of the employees were americans. they say that it is continuing to monitor the situation, and they will provide more information as it becomes available. now, chicago knows gun violence all too well, and in fact, the city s struggles are front and center in a new cnn series. we will talk with one man who is using his daughter s death to change the city for the better.