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The audit of are they following those regulations. do they have the right systems and processes in place to ensure those regulations are being satisfied. thats where the safety problems lie. >> david soucie, mary schiavo, stay with us. the breaking news this morning, a passenger plane carrying people including children and infants -- we know there were two children and three infants on board. its missing in a remote area of indonesia. >> it was flying from jayapura to oksibil. the plane took o...

Here that its took off about 2 1:22 eastern time. and they lost contact at 1:55 eastern time. when you have a timeline like that, you would have some indication, obviously, of where that plane might be. david soucie, let me send that to you. >> yes, definitely you do. theres a flight plan thats filed. and that flight plan is followed in which the aircraft is monitored toas to where it is. theres ground flight following which would report back to the ground flight following to say heres where we ...

And a little over 30 minutes into the flight they cost contact. we want to go now to mary schiavo and david soucie to talk a little bit about this plane it is. it is trigana air. this is a small regional jet. our renee marsh did some research on this. according to aviation safety.net, this particular airline, in july of 2007 the e.u. added this airline to its list of banned carriers because of safety oversight issues. what issues normally would warrant a ban like that, mary? >> in the case of ai...

Now. >> david, i just want to recap for folks who might just been joining us. this indonesian plane thats missing, it is from the trigana air service. thats a picture of a similar plane. there were 44 adults, five crew minutes on board, three infants and two children on board. all of them, of course, missing right now. it was about a 50-minute flight. it did have to go over, as we understand it, some mountainous regions. it left at 12:55:00 a.m. eastereaster eastern, lost contact at 3:21. when y...

For them or saw them off in jayapura. >> thats where your mind goes first, of course, that these people were expecting their loved ones to land in ten minutes and then they learned that the plane has lost contact. and now it has been about five and a half hours since they would have had any news. among them two children and three infants. so you can imagine the family members, the loved ones would be very distressed. and that country, as weve been discussing, unfortunately has a very patchy avia...

Following breaking news this morning of a passenger plane thats carrying 54 people, including children and infants, is missing in a remote area of indonesia. >> the plane took off from a local airport there in jayapura on the countrys northern coast. it was supposed to last about 50 minutes to oksibil. but about 32 minutes or so, the air traffic control lost contact with the plane. >> and its dark there and this is a densely forested region, were told, very mountainous. bad weather has moved int...

Point. they were 33 minutes into the flight when they lost contact with this plane. and as we understand they are not going to start a search or resume a search until tomorrow morning because its dark there. >> lets get the latest here from kathy novak. what do we know about this search and when it will resume? >> were hearing via our affiliate cnn indonesia that the transportation ministry has confirmed that the search has been suspended until morning, because its dark. they lost contact with t...

The breaking news this morning, this coming from the province of papua. a plane carrying 54 people missing this morning. it took off at about 2:21 p.m. local time there. and roughly 30 minutes into the flight, that plane you just saw, that very jet, went missing. and the air traffic control operators lost contact with it. on board, 44 adults, two children, three infants, five crew members. again, a total of 54 people. we know from the transportation minister there in indonesia that the search wh...