Air Asia Flight With 162 On Board Missing
An AirAsia flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control after take-off, the airline has said. ...
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An AirAsia flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control after take-off, the airline has said.
Flight QZ8501, which had 162 people on board, was supposed to land in Singapore at 8:30am local time on Sunday.
Sixteen children and one infant were on board, the airline said in a statement. It added that there was one Singaporean national, one Malaysian, three Koreans, and 157 Indonesians on the flight.
“At the present time we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and crew members on board, but we will keep all parties informed as more information becomes available,” the airline said in a statement on Facebook.
The aircraft, an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC, requested for a different route due to poor weather before communication was lost over Indonesian air space.
Search and rescue operations are in progress and AirAsia is “cooperating fully and assisting the rescue service”, the Malaysia-based budget carrier said.
It said it had established an emergency call centre for family or friends of those who were travelling on the aircraft.
The aircraft lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17am (2317 GMT), Hadi Mustofa, Indonesia’s Transport Ministry official, told media.
The flight had been due in Singapore at 8:30 am (0030 GMT). The Singapore airport said on its website the status of the flight was “delayed”.
The incident comes at the end of a disastrous year for Malaysia’s airlines.
National flag carrier Malaysia Airlines lost two aircraft this year.
Its flight MH370 went missing on March 8 on a trip from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board.
On July 17, Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
Source: The Punch
Flight QZ8501, which had 162 people on board, was supposed to land in Singapore at 8:30am local time on Sunday.
Sixteen children and one infant were on board, the airline said in a statement. It added that there was one Singaporean national, one Malaysian, three Koreans, and 157 Indonesians on the flight.
“At the present time we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and crew members on board, but we will keep all parties informed as more information becomes available,” the airline said in a statement on Facebook.
The aircraft, an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC, requested for a different route due to poor weather before communication was lost over Indonesian air space.
Search and rescue operations are in progress and AirAsia is “cooperating fully and assisting the rescue service”, the Malaysia-based budget carrier said.
It said it had established an emergency call centre for family or friends of those who were travelling on the aircraft.
The aircraft lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17am (2317 GMT), Hadi Mustofa, Indonesia’s Transport Ministry official, told media.
The flight had been due in Singapore at 8:30 am (0030 GMT). The Singapore airport said on its website the status of the flight was “delayed”.
The incident comes at the end of a disastrous year for Malaysia’s airlines.
National flag carrier Malaysia Airlines lost two aircraft this year.
Its flight MH370 went missing on March 8 on a trip from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board.
On July 17, Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
Source: The Punch
