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Hi everyone. good morning, it is sunday december 28, 2014. im anna kooiman. a packed airplane carrying 162 people goes missing due to wicked weather, and now the search is suspended. what happens next? were live on the ground. and the images coming in are heartbreaking. families there waiting helplessly for answers. take a look at the right-hand side of the screen. you get to the airport to visit a loved one and instead of arrived on the board the message says see counter. well tell you who wa...

Did make five other trips prior to this the incident and obviously made those trips without any issues. but this is the workhorse that youre looking at here. it is -- it has lots of wrecks were talking about the a-320, according to airbus listen to this that every two seconds an a-320 either takes off or lands somewhere in the world every single day, so that gives you a little context on just how much this aircraft is used. as far as airbus is concerned, we have a statement coming to us this mor...

Worried. this is an extremely painful time for them as they get word that this flight is missing. you know, the air lines are saying they dont know what has happened to it. they dont know. they cannot provide very much in the way of information but we can tell you there are 162 people onboard that air bus 320. the majority of them were indonesians. were sharing this picture now from singapore where we know theres a help center with a number that people can call. as you see this woman on her scre...

The airbus boeing this airbus 320 is comparable to the boeing 3727. they are tested at the factories before they are released for commercial service. and the, theyre designed to withstand immense forces and turbulence and wind shear and all sorts of things that can happen in flight. next time you go flying have a look at how the wings are moving they flap, in a way. but theres flexibility in the wings, and thats all designed into the aircraft to make them durable and make the ride smooth and com...

Singapore for the new year holiday, lets go to richard quest, he is cnns aviation correspondent, joining us via skype, what can you tell us about the pilot, about his amount of experience flying this aircraft and about the safety record of the aircraft? >> reporter: the pilot had six hours of flying experience the other pilot had 2,000 hours. certainly not inexperienced, quite often youll see captains in the left hand seat going to 12,000 the, 14,000 15,000 hours of experience. so i would say yo...

Only with xfinity from comcast. now there are reports as many as 162 people, 162 people were hearing are on board the airbus 320. the aircraft is like the one you city here on your screens. indonesian tv reports most are indonesian with three koreans, one passenger from singapore, one from the uk, and one from malaysia also on board. now, airasia indonesia issued a statement which reads, "at the present time we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and ...

Early sunday morning, more than five hours ago it was expected to land. the pilot asked to change its root because of the weather. and soon after contact with the airplane was lost. these are pictures of that missing plane. 162 people listed aboard the airbus a-320. 155 passengers and seven crew. most indonesians as we mentioned with three south koreans, a singaporean and a french person. also 16 children among the passengers and one baby. the ceo of airasia tweeted this short statement -- "than...

Number one. >> he had been in the battle a long time. he had a lot of knowledge. daves specialty was firearms. because hey, he was good. >> i dealt with the militias before here in montana. >> hello, everyone. im aisha sesay. this breaking news in to us here at cnn. reuters news service is reporting an air asia flight from the indonesian city of suribaya lost contact with air traffic controllers sunday morning. the plane was en route to singapore. an indonesian transport official tells reuters t...

We heard in the statement that it received the last maintenance just last month. when you look at the flight tracking website, flight radar 24, you can see that on that same day it made five prior trips. short trips about an hour, hour and a half. two hour trips. it made five other trips without any problems on that same day. the a 320, really has a pretty good safety record. when you look at it. just from the air buss own web site, it says that an a 320 lands or takes off somewhere in the world...

And we know of the passengers on board there were 16 children and one infant. a little more on the airline airasia. on its website the airline describes itself as no frills. constantly looking for advancements that will lead to lower costs but not at the expense of safety. our paula hancocks reported to us from seoul that it is known as a budget airline with a good record. its fleet is made up entirely of airbus a-320 aircraft. the airline flies to more than 100 destinations across 22 countrie...