An AirAsia flight QZ8501 with 155
passengers onboard has gone missing today. It took off from Indonesian city of
Surabaya and was headed to Singapore. The plane took off at around 5:31AM local
time and lost contacts with the air traffic control system at around 6:17AM.
In a statement, AirAisa has said,
"" There were 155 passengers on board, with 138 adults, 16 children,
and 1 infant. Also on board were 2 pilots and 5 cabin crew." The aviation
company conforms that the flight has lost contact and a search and rescue operation
has been launched.
"The aircraft was on the
submitted flight plan route and was requesting deviation due to enroute weather
before communication with the aircraft was lost while it was still under the
control of the Indonesian air traffic control," said the airline.
Most of the passengers on board
were Indonesian; three were from South Korea, one each from France, Singapore,
and Malaysia.
Soon after the flight went
missing, the airline changed its logo color from red to grey, to signify their
concern to the sad event.
It is the third air incident that
Malaysia has witnessed this year. On the previous two occasions Malaysia's
national carrier Malaysia Airline’s two flights MH 370 and MH 17 met accident.
MH 370 and MH 17 had 236 and 298 passengers on board respectively. None of the passengers
survived in both the accident.
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