stick around so we can come back to you to continue this conversation as more details come in to us. mary, we thank you. we turn now to richard quest, cnn's aviation correspondent, who joins us on the phone. richard, it's hard to believe that the year is not out yet, we're talking about another missing aircraft. we don't know the details here, but an airasia flight has lost contact with air traffic controllers. what jumps out at you right now? >> well, what will jump out at me, aisha, is first of all the moment of flight this will have happened. we need to know a lot of details about the moment of flight, where it was headed, the condition of the aircraft, as mary was saying, any warnings. it doesn't appear to be a pan pan. it doesn't appear to be a mayday. what flight level was the plane at? according to some reports it was at altitude at the time. there are these reports that it had requested a different routing to its destination. so these are pieces of the