> we know this plane, this is the fifth flight this plane had taken that day, previously stopped in carthage, it was a 12-year-old a320 and it was said to have had a spotty maintenance record, but a full maintenance checkup at cairo airport, details coming through about the quality of the airport and how robust it was, not where people will be focusing a lot of their attention at the moment. the search itself is underway still going on in the mediterranean, all ships in the area diverge around there but the first ship to arrive has found nothing at the point where they said the beacon signal came from. they arrived at the deck of dropping, they did not find any floating objects or traces of fuel so it remains a mystery and a lot of conflicting information about these distress signals, where they came from, 37,000 feet in clear skies, good weather. nicole: that is the essence of breaking news, we get conflicting reports and we try to decipher through those. the egyptian prime minister said there was no distress call but there was a signal received from the plane. that being said you had multi