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Indonesia's chequered air safety record is again in the spotlight after a Sriwijaya Air jet carrying 62 people crashed into the Java Sea minutes after take-off.

Indonesia's chequered air safety record is again in the spotlight after a Sriwijaya Air jet carrying 62 people crashed into the Java Sea minutes after takeoff on Saturday, marking the country's third major airline crash in just over six years.

Aviation experts have raised concerns about rusty pilots and planes being reactivated after storage during the coronavirus pandemic. Travel restrictions caused a huge decrease in flying this year in an effort to stop the spread of Covid-19 across borders.  Pilots returning to work and insect nests have been raised as potential problems for airlines as they restart business. There has been a spike in reported maintenance problems as planes are brought out of storage on a scale not seen in the i...

Covid-19: Safety concerns over planes returning to service Published image captionPlanes in storage at Alice Springs Experts are warning airlines to take extra care when reactivating planes left in storage during the pandemic. Pilot rustiness, maintenance errors and even insect nests could be potential dangers for aircraft re-entering service. Travel restrictions have caused a huge decline in flying, with many planes put in extended storage. As a result, there has been a spike in the numb...

If at all? >> not sure how much they can do. it has been again so long since the crash. and i imagine modeling ocean currents could be extremely difficult. we have seen certain graphics publications to show this is not inconsistent with the crash off the coast of -- western australia. so -- while this does dismiss some of the more bizarre conspiracy theories i dont think it gets us that much closer to actually locating the keys to the investigation which are the flight data recorder and the cock...

Watching this so closely hoping to get some answers. david will be connecting with us throughout the day from hong kong. david, thank you. at this moment we want to turn to greg waldron, asian manage editor for "flight global" joins us live from singapore to talk about what a very encouraging development, i want to find out from you, based on scarce info we have now. how confident are you that this is in fact mh-370? >> well it seems consistent with the flaperon of a 777, aircraft. the size is r...

Passengers 17 were children and that includes one baby. the ceo of airasia tweeted this short statement -- "thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. we must stay strong." we havent heard from them in a while. if we get any updates from the airline company itself well certainly bring that to you immediately. airasia again released the nationalities of the people on board. i just gave that to you. three from south korea. one from singapore. one from malaysia. and one from france. so we continu...

Well. because i also fear that this could create a false sense of hope that we may actually find something. >> interesting. all right, greg waldron joining us from singapore. many things. were going to take a break at this point. on the other side of the break, well have more information on this breaking news on the hunt for mh 370. >> stay with us here on cnn. well be back in moments. ♪

Knew that location. these are just early reports. we will have to wait to see exactly the nature of how this plane went down and what exactly happened. it would have been at cruising altitude at that point, an unusual scenario for a plane to go down. normally the most worrying times for any commercial airliner would be at takeoff and landing and the minutes after and before those events. >> absolutely. maybe we will get more answers now. were going to talk with an aviation expert. bringing us th...

>> election night, as john boehner was finishing his speech, we happen to notice you at the bottom of the stage shaking hands with presumptive ehner.r braine >> a relationship with him is very cordial. we work together in the education committee and we have are together when he was majority leader and in the minority leadership position. we are both very positive, and i would say we are both adults. we have both been around the block a little bit, and know that it is not necessarily wh...