AirAsia plane with 162 people onboard disappears en route from Indonesia to Singapore

A passenger airplane operated by Malaysian carrier Air Asia was reported missing on Sunday while en route from Indonesia to Singapore. The aircraft lost contact with authorities after the pilot had requested permission to take an unusual route.

The Airbus A320-200 was carrying 162 people on board – 155 passengers and 7 crew (two pilots and five flight attendants).

AirAsia plane had apparently asked for permission to deviate from normal path because of poor weather conditions, said the Malaysian low cost company in a statement.

“Flight QZ8501 called for deviation from flight pattern due to unfavorable weather conditions”, the airline said in a message posted on Facebook. “Communication with the aircraft was lost after it was undertaken by Indonesian authorities for Air Traffic Control (ATC),” added AirAsia.

Indonesia called off the daylong air search for the night at about 7 p.m. Achmad Toha, an official with the country’s search and rescue agency, said some search ships still remained in the area. The air search was scheduled to continue at dawn Monday.

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UPDATE: CCTV TV station announced that plane’s wreckage was discovered near Belitlung Island in Java Sea but the information has not been confirmed by authorities.

Of the 155 passengers on board, there were 138 adults, 16 children and a baby, informed the Malaysian carrier. By nationalities there were: 157 Indonesians, three South Koreans, 1 Malaysian and a Singaporean.

Air Asia plane took off from the airport in Surabaya, Indonesia at 5.20 a.m. local time (10.20 p.m. GMT) and was due to land in Singapore. Flight controllers in Jakarta lost contact with the plane about an hour after takeoff, around 7.24 a.m., the Malaysian company announced on Twitter.
Credit photo: By Terence Ong [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons