and we have new details about the captain of the missing flight. a veteran pilot whose final communication with air traffic control is a crucial lead in the search. joe johns is outfront. reporter: as is common in indonesia, he is known by only one name. pictures on facebook confirm at least one of his own hobbies. he was a fan of motorcycles. reports suggest he is a member of a motorcycle club. his daughter posted a picture of him on social media saying dad, please come home. i still need you. the family had recently suffered a loss. the captain s younger brother died of diabetes days ago. his father told the bbc, i want my son to come back alive. he was a veteran of the skies with more than 20,000 flying hours, of which 6,100 hours were with airasia on the air bus 320 biffle comparison slightly more flying time than the pilot sullenburger who executed an
critical to locating this missing passenger jet. cnn is outfront with the latest. reporter: for a while, monitors at indonesia surabaya airport didn t list the status of flight 8501 but rather read go to info counter. the air bus a-320 aircraft took off sunday morning with 162 people on board for roughly a two-hour flight to singapore. distraught loved ones first briefed behind closed doors. linger at the airport, anxious for any jump dates. my fiance and his family were on that plane. they were supposed to be their last vacation before us got married. for our crews, the families the passengers families. we re very devastated. what we know happened is at 5:36 a.m., the plane took off from surbaya. 36 minutes later, 6:12 a.m., the
virtually impossible. reporter: over the weekend the blame game between the u.s. and north korea escalated. north korea claiming tuesday cut off its internet last week and calling president obama a monkey. at the end of the derrek have we deterred north korea? reporter: senator lindsay graham on north korea suggested china s possible involvement and pushed for aggressive measures against north korea. put them on the state spogsored terrorism list and attack their infrastructure. i can t imagine anything this massive happening in north korea without china being involved. reporter: and an fbi official i spoke with reiterated today, absent any additional information, the government doesn t believe any other countries are involved in the hack. thanks so much. we really appreciate it. thank you for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. captions by vitac