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Captain, first officer in terms of experience and also what we know about the specific airbus a-320 200 model? >> reporter: well the airline, itself has a tremendous safety record and if you fly on airasia, the planes are relatively new fleet. it's certainly a low-frills carrier. but the planes are clean, they're modern. the pilots were experienced. as our experts have been talking, looking into. they had a lot of flight hours, a lot of flight hours on this particular plane. and, you know another reality here poppy, is the fact that these budget carriers are booming. they're aggressively expan...

Media speak, there is a disconnect perhaps with what reporting crews are being told and what the families are being told behind the closed doors of that briefing room. obviously, in a situation where you have a missing aircraft going on more than 24 hours now, and a search under way, there aren't going to be all the answers that are available. but i think what families expect and what everybody expects in a situation like this is that information be communicated responsibly as it comes in but without being reckless about it either which, again, is why we need to urge caution in what we report ...

I have been in touch with the manufacturer of the aircraft airbus. and they tell us that this is a relatively young aircraft. we're talking six years old. it was delivered in 2008. has 23 how flight hours. young aircraft. as far as the maintenance goes it went in for its last maintenance check in november. and everything checked out just fine. so i want seems as far as november goes or as late as november everything was okay with this aircraft. airbus saying those they will be cooperating with investigators, french investigators which is essentially the equivalent of the ntsb here in the u.s. ...

Les? martin savage here. >> i can hear you if you can hear me. >> let's continue my conversation on air now regarding what we know of this particular aircraft. let me start you off with the airbus a320 200 version. pretty well known, petition well flown aircraft correct? >> it's a reliable airplane. it's been in existence for many years. decades really. it's got good systems on it. we use it all here in the u.s. it's a much lighter airplane than what we've been familiar with in previous reports with regarding the malaysian airline 370 triple boeing 7. this airplane the a320-200 is about 170,00...

But more intensive efforts they have been paused until daybreak. >> we just got an update about the u.s. resources potentially that will be involved and a pentagon spokesman says that right now pacific command does not have any assets supporting the search for this airasia flight. that could change. but that just came in just a couple of minutes ago that no u.s. assets are involved in the pacific command at least in the search for this flight. now let's talk about the flight. it's an airbus a 320 200. it left last night on what was slate ad three hour flight to singapore. pretty routine. airli...