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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/contact-with-airasia-flight-qz8501-bound-for-singapore-from-surabaya-lost-033803688.html
Indonesia air traffic control lost contact with AirAsia flight QZ8501 bound for Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Sunday morning.

Search and rescue operations have begun, AirAsia Indonesia said on its Facebook page.

The carrier also released a statement listing 162 people on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and one infant along with two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer.

The nationalities of the passengers and crew onboard include one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one French, three South Koreans and 156 Indonesians.

The aircraft lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control at 7:24am local time, 42 minutes after departure and an hour before it was scheduled to land in Singapore.

QZ 8501 was between the Indonesian port of Tanjung Pandan and the town of Pontianak, in West Kalimantan on Borneo island, when it went missing, Reuters reports.

The plane was on the submitted flight plan route and was flying at 32,000 feet before it asked to fly at 38,000 feet to avoid clouds.
The captain in command had a total of 6,100 flying hours and the first officer a total of 2,275 flying hours, said AirAsia, adding that the jet underwent its last scheduled maintenance on 16 November 2014.

The Singapore air force and navy have offered help to Indonesia authorities and have put two C130s on standby.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has also commented on the situation on both Facebook and Twitter.

All is well

tdayof:
All is well

My brother, like it happens twice every year

acadollar:
My brother, like it happens twice every year

I pray it stops here 2014