picking this up sunday morning,news reaching us reveals that
An AirAsia flight from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore has disappeared after losing contact with air traffic controllers. Flight QZ8501 was meant to land at Changi Airport in Singapore about 8.30am local time but could not be contacted by Indonesian officials from 7.24am local time
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The Indonesian-owned budget airline confirmed in a Facebook statement that the Airbus A320-200 (actual plane pictured), with 162 people on board had gone missing minutes after the pilot had asked for permission to increase his altitude because of bad weather.
Indonesian Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa said the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact. AirAsia confirmed there were 138 adults, 16 children, one baby and seven crew on board made up of 156 Indonesians, 3 South Koreans and one from France, Singapore and Malaysia
Nationalities of passengers and crew on-board are one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one French, three South Koreans and 156 Indonesians.
There is an unconfirmed report of a wreckage being found east of Belitung Island in the Java Sea.
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