partner Brooke Baldwin playing for StandUp for Kids. Quest is also an Aviation Correspondent for CNN, and extensively covered the story of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on 8 March 2014. Quest later wrote the book, The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane, published by Penguin Random House on 8 March 2016. Personal life In 2008, Quest was arrested in New York City's Central Park "with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot." Quest admitted being in possession of crystal methamphetamine, a controlled substance. On 26 June 2014, Quest described his past experience as a closeted gay man on his CNN television programme Quest Means Business. Quest tested positive for COVID-19 in April 2020, later saying it had developed into long COVID. See also Broadcast journalism LGBT culture in New York City List of LGBT people from New York City New Yorkers in journalism References External links CNN staff biography CNN Business Traveller CNN Quest 1962 births 20th-century English people 21st-century English people Living people Alumni of the University of Leeds BBC newsreaders and journalists CNN people English expatriates in the United States English Jews English television journalists Gay men Journalists from New York City People educated at Roundhay School British LGBT broadcasters LGBT Jews British LGBT journalists Television presenters from Liverpool Vanderbilt University alumni English people of Jewish descent