Malaysia-based AirAsia Missing

[KamranAslam]

AirAsia flight QZ8501 from Indonesia to Singapore missing.

Anxious family members have been arriving at the airport in Surabaya

There were 155 passengers on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and one infant, the company said in a statement. Also on board were two pilots and five cabin crew.
Most of those on board were Indonesian, but there were six others on board, AirAsia has said: three South Koreans, and one each from France, Malaysia and Singapore.
An official with the transport ministry, Hadi Mustofa, told local media the plane lost contact over the Java Sea, between the islands of Kalimantan and Java.

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BBC News - AirAsia flight QZ8501 from Indonesia to Singapore missing

AirAsia flight carrying 162 people goes missing in Southeast Asia: officials | Reuters

Indonesia's air force was searching for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that went missing on Sunday after the

pilots asked to change course to avoid bad weather during a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to

Singapore.

Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501, an Airbus 320-200, lost contact with Jakarta air traffic control 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," the airline said in a statement.

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The Indonesia air transportation director said the plane requested to increase altitude to 38,000 feet from 32,000 feet to "avoid clouds." Thunderstorms were reported in the area with clouds up to 50,000 feet, Indonesian officials said.

According to flight tracking website Flightradar24, the jet was flying at the regular cruising altitude for most jetliners -- 32,000 feet -- when the signal was lost. No distress reports came from the plane, officials said.

[OgRe1985]

Travelled twice through Air Asia in a week time first from singapore to Cambodia and then from cambodia to Bangkok, Now considering myself lucky:-)....Its a third incident in a row involving Malaysian based company

[Haider53]

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Another sad incident in 2014

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