John Austral News Today

Thank you so much for being with us. so, john, we know the crash occurred about 20 minutes after take off from jakarta, and the boeing 737 only climbed to an altitude of out 5,200 feet. from what you have been able t piece together, what do you think may have happened here? >> you know, its way too soon to tell. obviously these investigations take months, if not years, depending on how investigators -- what information investigators have at their disposal. getting the black boxes, examining de...

Hours to come. now we have a scant amount of information to draw conclusions off of. what we do know is that this is a brand-new airplane,ust delivered several weeks ago from here in seattle -- actually, i saw it othe flight line unpainted actually before it was delivered. that was in late july. so, just to give you a sense of how new this airplane is to ryanairs fleet, it is quite unprecedented to have an accident this close to a delivery of an aircraft. certainly delivery of a new aircraft typ...

Turn around but didnt declare a catastrophic emeency at that point, perhaps they thought the issue on board was something they could fix, and obviously sadly, that does not appear to be the case. so obviously we are waiting to get more information. it is comin in minute by minute. we have seen some photos as well of family members gathering at the airport in jakarta. obviously, as you can imagine, just a devastating time for them, and im sure theyre just clinging to hope that perhaps somewhere i...