Indonesian's Trigana Airline Safety Record Not Good
CABRERA: The search for a missing passenger jet in Indonesia has been called off for the day as crews spotted debris from the plane just before bad weather forced them to abandon the search. The Trigana Air flight crashed, and for this airline, Trigana, before yesterday's crash, it had 19 serious safety incidents in just the last 23 years. It's a small airline. To talk more about this, CNN aviation correspondent, Richard Quest. Thank you so much, Richard. Good to have you here. Fill us in on the investigation to this crash.</s>RICHARD QUEST, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: Very early on they spotted the first wreckage but this is mountainous territory. The weather is currently bad. The one thing you don't want is to make a bad situation worse by endangering those who have got to be part of the search and recovery. They are going to take their time but they have seen the wreckage. We're a long way from finding out what the cause may be. There's a variety of possibilities. Mechanical failure leading to loss of control and then crashing into the ground. Possibly weather played a part of it. Possibly simply the pilots dealing with too much at the time and suddenly they hit the mountain.</s>CABRERA: We talked about 19 serious safety incidents since 1992 for this particular airline. Why is this airline still operating?</s>QUEST: A very good question. One that the Indonesian regulators will have to answer. This airline was banned from flying to the European Union. It was a small airline. It only had just over a dozen planes and it had 19 incidents. Serious incidents. And those incidents, if you delve into them, they were to do with bad maintenance, poor pilot errors of judgment. They were to do with complete incompetence in many ways. So when asked the question, why was this airline still being allowed to operate by the Indonesian regulators, to put this in perspective, they have the same number of incidents as you would get from one of the major U.S. carriers, and they have hundreds upon hundreds of planes and tens of millions of passengers.</s>CABRERA: And thousands and thousands of flights.</s>QUEST: No, Hundreds and hundreds of flights in the same period.</s>CABRERA: Hundreds of thousands of flights. So with this airline --</s>QUEST: This airline -- this airline was a mischief. It was a nuisance to aviation.</s>CABRERA: And such a tragic situation in this recent crash. 54 people presumed dead at this point.</s>QUEST: Yes.</s>CABRERA: Thank you so much, Richard Quest, for your expertise --</s>QUEST: Thank you.</s>CABRERA: -- filling us in on all that. We appreciate it. Up next, the new film "Straight Outta Compton," number one at the box office this weekend. But does the film leave out embarrassing parts of the story?