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An AirAsia Indonesia plane travelling from Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday morning, after the pilot of flight QZ8501 requested “deviation” from its flight plan because of bad weather.
The Airbus A320-200 has 155 passengers and seven crew members on board. The passengers include 149 Indonesians, one Singaporean, one British, one Malaysian and three Koreans. The plane left Juanda international airport in Surabaya in east Java at 5.35am and was expected to arrive in Singapore at 8.30am (Singapore time). The plane lost contact with air traffic control at 7.24am Surabaya time.
"AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 (Surabaya LT) this morning. The flight took off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya at 0535hours," said an airline statement issued at about 130pm Singapore time.
"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," it added.
Search and rescue operations are being conducted under the guidance of The Indonesia of Civil Aviation Authority, said the airline, adding that it is cooperating fully and assisting the investigation in every possible way.
The aircraft had undergone its last scheduled maintenance on Nov 16.
Joko Muryo Atmodjo, air transportation director at the Transport Ministry, told a news conference that the aircraft was between the Indonesian port of Tanjung Pandan and the town of Pontianak, in West Kalimantan on Borneo island, when it went missing.
"We are coordinating with rescue team and looking for its position. We believe it is somewhere between Tanjung Pandan, a town on Belitung island, and Kalimantan," AFP quoted Indonesia's air transportation director-general Djoko Murjatmodjo as saying.
Airforce spokesman Marsma Hadi Tjahjanto confirmed that the air force was using the last point of contact to conduct an air search. He said the air force radar recorded the weather at the time as cloudy, Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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The Airbus A320-200 has 155 passengers and seven crew members on board. The passengers include 149 Indonesians, one Singaporean, one British, one Malaysian and three Koreans. The plane left Juanda international airport in Surabaya in east Java at 5.35am and was expected to arrive in Singapore at 8.30am (Singapore time). The plane lost contact with air traffic control at 7.24am Surabaya time.
"AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 (Surabaya LT) this morning. The flight took off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya at 0535hours," said an airline statement issued at about 130pm Singapore time.
"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," it added.
Search and rescue operations are being conducted under the guidance of The Indonesia of Civil Aviation Authority, said the airline, adding that it is cooperating fully and assisting the investigation in every possible way.
The aircraft had undergone its last scheduled maintenance on Nov 16.
Joko Muryo Atmodjo, air transportation director at the Transport Ministry, told a news conference that the aircraft was between the Indonesian port of Tanjung Pandan and the town of Pontianak, in West Kalimantan on Borneo island, when it went missing.
"We are coordinating with rescue team and looking for its position. We believe it is somewhere between Tanjung Pandan, a town on Belitung island, and Kalimantan," AFP quoted Indonesia's air transportation director-general Djoko Murjatmodjo as saying.
Airforce spokesman Marsma Hadi Tjahjanto confirmed that the air force was using the last point of contact to conduct an air search. He said the air force radar recorded the weather at the time as cloudy, Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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