Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia
reported that the search and rescue operations of the plane from
Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore, which has lost contact with the air
traffic control, are in progress.
MOSCOW, December 28 (Sputnik) — Search and rescue operations were launched for the flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore which had lost contact with air traffic control, Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia said Sunday.
"AirAsia
Indonesia regrets to confirm that QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has
lost contact at 07:24 a.m. [23:24 Saturday GMT] this morning… At this
time, search and rescue operations are in progress and AirAsia is
cooperating fully and assisting the rescue service," the carrier said
on its Facebook page.
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Earlier the same day, Indonesian Transport Ministry official Hadi
Mustofa was quoted as saying by media that flight QZ 8501 with 155
people on board, including one British citizen, one citizen
of Singapore, one — of Malaysia, three Koreans and 149 Indonesians, took
off Sunday morning and lost contact with the traffic control in the
airspace of Indonesia.
The official added that the flight lost contact between Kalimantan and Belitung island in an hour after the plane's takeoff.
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The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation is currently verifying information claiming that the missingAirAsia aircraft
has made an emergency landing in the eastern part of the Belitung
island in the Java Sea, the ministry’s representative said Sunday.
“We at the [crisis] center [in Jakarta] have not received such information yet. According to some data, our colleagues in Surabaya have learned it. We are currently checking this,” the ministry’s representative J. A. Barata told Detik.com.
According to Detik.com, a relative of a missing passenger received a text message from an unknown sender, stating that the plane made an emergency landing and all passengers were alive.
AirAsia flight QZ8501 en route from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore, lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 a.m. local time (00:24 GMT) and went missing.
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The official added that the flight lost contact between Kalimantan and Belitung island in an hour after the plane's takeoff.
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Indonesia Verifies Reports on AirAsia Plane’s Emergency Landing
A relative of a missing passenger has reportedly received a text message from an unknown sender, stating that the plane made an emergency landing and all passengers are alive
“We at the [crisis] center [in Jakarta] have not received such information yet. According to some data, our colleagues in Surabaya have learned it. We are currently checking this,” the ministry’s representative J. A. Barata told Detik.com.
According to Detik.com, a relative of a missing passenger received a text message from an unknown sender, stating that the plane made an emergency landing and all passengers were alive.
AirAsia flight QZ8501 en route from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore, lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 a.m. local time (00:24 GMT) and went missing.
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