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Airasia Flight Carrying 162 People From Indonesia To Singapore Missing by MDelgado(m): 7:58am On Dec 28, 2014
By Chris Nusatya and Randy
Fabi

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An
AirAsia flight with 162
people on board lost contact
with air traffic control on
Sunday after the pilots
asked to change course to
avoid bad weather during a
flight from the Indonesian
city of Surabaya to
Singapore, Indonesian
officials said.
Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ
8501, an Airbus 320-200,
lost contact with the Jakarta
air traffic control tower at
6:17 a.m. (6.17 p.m. EST),
officials said.
"The aircraft was on the
submitted flight plan route
and was requesting
deviation due to enroute
weather before
communication with the
aircraft was lost while it was
still under the control of the
Indonesian air traffic
control," the airline said in a
statement.
No distress signal had been
sent, said Joko Muryo
Atmodjo, air transportation
director at the Indonesian
Transport Ministry.
A search and rescue
operation had been
launched, the airline and
the Indonesian air force
said. Singapore said it had
activated its air force and
navy to help.
Indonesia AirAsia is 49
percent owned by
Malaysian-based AirAsia
( AIRA.KL).
The aircraft was between
the Indonesian port of
Tanjung Pandan and the
town of Pontianak, in West
Kalimantan on Borneo
island, when it went
missing, Atmodjo told a
news conference.
The aircraft had been flying
at 32,000 feet and had
asked to fly at 38,000 feet to
avoid clouds, he said.
Tanjung Pandan is the main
town on Belitung island,
roughly half-way between
Surabaya and Singapore,
and Singapore's Channel
News Asia television said
there was bad weather over
the island at the time the
plane went missing.
Indonesia AirAsia said there
were 155 passengers and
seven crew on board. It said
157 people on the flight
were Indonesian, with three
from South Korea and one
each from Singapore and
Malaysia.
The plane had been due in
Singapore at 8:30 a.m.
Singapore time (0030 GMT).
The airline said the captain
and first officer were both
experienced.
Neither Malaysia's AirAsia
nor any of its affiliates in
Indonesia, Thailand, the
Philippines and India have
had any major incidents or
crashes.
Tony Fernandes, chief of
Malaysia's AirAsia, said on
Twitter: "Thanks for all your
thoughts and prayers. We
must stay strong."
The incident comes at the
end of a disastrous year for
the region's airlines.
Malaysia's national flag
carrier, Malaysia Airlines,
lost two aircraft this year.
Flight MH370 went missing
on March 8 on a trip from
Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
with 239 passengers and
crew on board and has still
not been found.
On July 17, Flight MH17 was
shot down over Ukraine,
killing all 298 people on
board.
(Additional reporting by Siva
Govindasamy in Singapore;
Writing by Robert Birsel;
Editing by Richard Borsuk
and Dean Yates)
Re: Airasia Flight Carrying 162 People From Indonesia To Singapore Missing by Phillfree(m): 8:07am On Dec 28, 2014
What kinda world we living in?


angryWhat kinda world we living in?
Re: Airasia Flight Carrying 162 People From Indonesia To Singapore Missing by MDelgado(m): 8:39am On Dec 28, 2014
Phillfree:
What kinda world we living in?


angryWhat kinda world we living in?



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