Air Asia news- The search continues for the missing plane carrying 162 passengers including 17 children bound for Singapore. Before the end of the year, another flight went missing, the third aviation catastrophe of Air Asia in 2014.
The latest Air Asia News reported that search and rescue operations are being conducted by Singaporean air force, navy and the Indonesian Civil Aviation Authority CNN reports.
Air Asia flight QZ8501 lost contact with the air traffic control at 7:24 a.m. on Sunday. The plane left off at Indonesian City of Surabaya and was bound for Singapore.
Out of the 162 passengers of Air Asia flight QZ8501, there were over 150 Indonesians, one French, three South Koreans, one Singaporean, and one Malaysian. Aside from the passengers, there were also two pilots and five cabin crew members onboard, according to NY Times.
In the Air Asia News reported, Airbus 320-200, flight QZ8501 requested for deviation from its route due to bad weather before it totally lost communication.
"The weather was not good -- it was bad -- at the estimated location the plane lost contact," Indonesian Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustafa stated.
Air Asia News include reports that the plane lost contact when it was somewhere between Kalimantan on Borneo Island and Belitung Island, roughly 42 minutes after its take off from Indonesian City of Surabaya.
Airbus, the manufacturer of the missing Air Asia flight QZ8501, Airbus 320-200 wrote in a statement:
Statement from Airbus, manufacturer of missing flight AirAsia QZ8501 https://t.co/4K36Ucus2k pic.twitter.com/7o6C2XeQdo
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) December 28, 2014
At the height of the Air Asia News, Air Asia Chief Executive Tony Fernandes expressed his thoughts for the missing Air Asia flight on Twitter, “"Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. We must stay strong." As a sign of grief for the unfortunate happening of the missing Air Asia plane, the color of the logo on its social media account change from red to gray. Since Sunday, after the Air Asia news spread out, almost every country in the world, felt terribly sad for the missing plane. Pres. Obama, who was on a vacation in Hawaii, had ordered monitoring of the whole situation. A website in-charge of monitoring air traffic, Flightradar24, stated that the plane was flying at 32, 000 feet when it lost contact nearly at the location of the Java Sea. Air Asia is a world’s best low-cost airline and a six-time champion according to its website. It lives on its promise, “now everyone can fly” by offering low fares. It is a Malaysian budget airline that headquartered in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. It offers domestic and international flights to 100 destinations spanning to 22 countries. In order to assist the families and friends of the missing passengers, Air Asia provides an Emergency Call Centre to reach for the latest Air Asia News updates. They can contact +622129850801. The Air Asia News missing flight is the third incident involving Malaysian airline. On March this year, Malaysian airline flight MH370 loaded with 239 passengers and crew bound for Beijing have gone missing. Four months after, flight MH17 shutdown in the Eastern Ukraine that killed 298 people.
Pray for Air Asia https://t.co/bnKUfWvje8 — TeamFollowback (@CHutell_) December 28, 2014
Yeah it makes no scientific sense "@Sumi_hasan: They can trace a missing phone, yet can't trace a missing plane. Priorities. #AirAsia"
— Black Range Rover (@koulstermillion) December 28, 2014
Isn't it about time realtime tracking info and data is uploaded to the Cloud so we know what's happening to these planes #airasia #sosad — Lucy Shepherd (@fabulucy) December 28, 2014
Oh, not again.. Too many missing planes in this year. #AirAsia plane with 162 on board missing in #Indonesia https://t.co/KuCC3S5k5B
— Steven Anggrek (@stevenanggrek) December 28, 2014
