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Search has been halted until daylight. unfortunately no new facts. but let me redo this statement from the airline's ceo. he says we will deeply shocked and saddened by this incident. we're cooperating with the authorities to the fullest extent to determine the cause of this incident. but meanwhile our main focus is keeping our families informed. let's begin with cnn's aviation correspondent richard quest, he joins me now, and i believe we have andrew stevens up. he's at the airport and he's been there for a few hours now. andrew how are officials and families dealing with what's happened? >> ...

Singapore for the new year holiday, let's go to richard quest, he is cnn's aviation correspondent, joining us via skype, what can you tell us about the pilot, about his amount of experience flying this aircraft and about the safety record of the aircraft? >> reporter: the pilot had six hours of flying experience the other pilot had 2,000 hours. certainly not inexperienced, quite often you'll see captains in the left hand seat going to 12,000 the, 14,000 15,000 hours of experience. so i would say you had a bhod rat moderately experienced crew but not terribly experienceded. the a-320, if you ta...