By James Ojo, UNN
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| credits: nypost.com |
Pandemonium broke out when an Indonesia AirAsia flight with
162 people aboard, most of them Indonesians, disappeared in the
early hours of Sunday over the Java Sea, triggering a search involving
several Southeast Asian nations.
According to an Associated Press(AP) report, Contact with Flight 8501
was lost about 42 minutes after the single-aisle, twin-engine A320-200
jet took off from Surabaya airport in Indonesia for Singapore.
It was not immediately clear whether it had any satellite tracking
devices on board.
Malaysia-based AirAsia, owned by Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes,
has dominated cheap travel in the region for years. AirAsia Malaysia
owns 49 percent of its subsidiary, AirAsia Indonesia. It said the
plane was on the submitted flight plan route when the pilots requested
deviation due to weather before communication was lost.
AirAsia, which has a presence in most of Southeast Asia and recently
in India, has never lost a plane before and has a good safety track
record.
The missing flight is the third malaysia-linked inccident in 2014
after two has been repotedly missing in the year.
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