[video=youtube_share;YOfvGsWOaGA]http://youtu.be/YOfvGsWOaGA[/video] An AirAsia Indonesia airliner flying from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board has lost contact with air traffic control. Flight QZ8501 went missing at 07:24 (23:24 GMT), AirAsia tweeted. The plane, an Airbus A320-200, disappeared midway into the flight of more than two hours and no distress call was issued. Indonesian military planes and aircraft from Singapore are searching an area of the Java Sea. The flight left the Indonesian city of Surabaya in eastern Java at 05:20 local time (22:20 GMT) and was due to arrive in Singapore at 08:30 (00:30 GMT). The missing jet had requested a "deviation" from the flight path due to bad weather, AirAsia said. Indonesia's transport ministry said the pilot had asked permission to climb to 38,000 ft (11,000m) to avoid thick cloud. AirAsia, a budget airline which owns 49% of AirAsia Indonesia, is based in Malaysia and has never lost a plane. However, 2014 has been a difficult year for aviation in Asia: Malaysia's national carrier Malaysia Airlines has suffered two losses - flights MH370 and MH17.
Another sad day for Indonesia... Wreckage, bodies reveal jet's fate days after it disappeared 30 Dec.`14 ~ Wreckage, bodies in Indonesian waters reveal AirAsia jet's fate days after it disappeared See also: Divers Deployed to Find AirAsia Debris After Weather Slows Plan Dec 30, 2014 ~ Searchers recovered three more bodies, including a female flight attendant, from the wreckage site of Flight 8501, while 17 helicopters are readying to assist recovery efforts, F.H. Bambang Sulistyo, head of the national search and rescue agency Basarnas, said today in Jakarta. Parts of the body of the plane were identified after establishing sonar contact at 24 meters under water.
Looks like they were trying to climb above the storm... Data point to 'unbelievably' steep climb before AirAsia crash: source December 31, 2014 -- Radar data being examined by investigators appeared to show that AirAsia Flight QZ8501 made an "unbelievably" steep climb before it crashed, possibly pushing it beyond the Airbus A320's limits, said a source familiar with the probe's initial findings. See also: Official: Sonar may have detected wreckage from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 December 31, 2014 -- Official dials back earlier comments to CNN on discovery of wreckage; Search chief says body of plane hasn't been found yet; Heavy wind and rain, as well as big waves, hamper search; Surface debris found at least 100 kilometers (60 miles) from plane's last known location
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Pings detected from downed Airasia jet... Searchers Detect Signals from AirAsia Plane's Black Boxes January 09, 2015 ~ Indonesian authorities say searchers have detected ping signals from the black boxes of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed in the Java Sea on December 28. See also: Glance at AirAsia search nearly 2 weeks after crash Jan 9,`15 ~ An AirAsia jetliner crashed into the Java Sea on Dec. 28, killing all 162 crew and passengers on board the two-hour flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore. A massive international search team has been underway for bodies and wreckage. The efforts have been hindered by seasonal monsoon rains that on many days prevent divers and high-tech equipment from making progress. A look at what's known about the crash and the recovery operation.
[video=youtube_share;xKEHIUJd_vM]http://youtu.be/xKEHIUJd_vM[/video] Investigators searching for black boxes in the crashed AirAsia plane lifted the tail portion out of the Java Sea on Saturday, two weeks after it went down, killing all 162 people on board. It was not immediately clear if the cockpit voice and flight data recorders were still inside the tail or had been detached when the Airbus A320 plummeted into the sea Dec. 28. Their recovery is essential to finding out why it crashed. The tail was hoisted from a depth of about 30 meters (100 feet) using inflatable bags that were attached to the rear of the aircraft and a crane to lift it onto a rescue ship.
[video=youtube_share;77BEhTGwBKQ]http://youtu.be/77BEhTGwBKQ[/video] he Airbus 320 vanished from radar screens over the northern Java Sea less than halfway into a two-hour flight from Indonesia's second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore. There were no survivors among the 162 people on board. Only 46 bodies have been recovered so far.
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