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A well travelled route. i mean you're talking about some serious air traffic control issues here. it would be very surprising if we learned that this plane either was out of contact for any length of time or under the fir, the indonesian 60 wasn't tracking what was happening. >> all right. richa richard quest. do stand by for us because i want to share this with our viewers. look at this. we want to put this up on our screens for you. air asia has quickly updated their company pages on social media. you may notice when we put up the pictures of the air craft with the air asia logos, they were ...

Confirmation. it appears as though the vast majority of those onboard are indonesian, we understand from reports that there may be a british person onboard. there may be a singapore person onboard. there may be three koreans onboard but at this point as i say, it's not 100% confirmed so we're waiting for that information from the company itself but it does appear at this point the vast majority well over 150, 145, i should say are indonesians themselves. that is the source of this flight. it started in oiindonesia so th vast majority appear to be indonesian. this flight should have taken less ...

We're told that the pilot reportedly requested an unusual route before the plane lost contact. we also got information saying the plane had asked to fly at higher altitude to avoid clouds. this is a developing story. that has not yet been con confirmedly but the plane had asked for a different altitude and search and rescue operations are under way. we've had richard quest with us and mary, both cnn aviation analysts who have stressed the importance of people moving fast. at this point in time basically time is of the essence. it is important as you heard her say just now that air assets are d...

Time. that was five hours ago. concerns are increasing. >> we appreciate the reporting. stand by for us. we want to recap for our viewers. there's an air asia flight to singapore is missing. a transport official says it lost contact with air traffic controllers at 7:24 a.m. that they lost contact with air traffic controllers. you heard paula say this was a flight that was supposed to land at 8:20 a.m. loc al time. the pilot requested an unusual route before the plane lost contact. we do want to stress to you that that is not confirmed. that is just what we are hearing that there was a change i...

Where they are in imminent danger of losing the air craft or letting air traffic control know that you need route. you need new routing or emergency services when you land. you need a different route to take for your air craft but those two messages did not at this point from what we know, did not go to air traffic control so air traffic control might not have known at that time that the plane was in serious trouble. what we do know, we can base this on other accidents and other crises and other problems with flights or air lines is that at this point with extremely bad weather, the chances of...