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[News Update] AIRASIA INDONESIA FLIGHT QZ8501

AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24hrs this morning.

 

At the present time we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and crew members on board, but we will keep all parties informed as more information becomes available.

 

The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC.

 

At this time, search and rescue operations are in progress and AirAsia is cooperating fully and assisting the rescue service.

 

 

AirAsia has established an Emergency Call Centre that is available for family or friends of those who may have been on board the aircraft. The number is: +622129850801.

 

AirAsia will release further information as soon as it becomes available. Updated information will also be posted on the AirAsia website, www.airasia.com.

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Interesting. A route change because it was "cloudy"? I don;t think so.

 

There were six foreigners on board the flight, reports say, three from South Korea and one each from the UK Malaysia and Singapore. The rest of the passengers were Indonesian.

 

An official with the transport ministry, Hadi Mustofa, told local media the plane lost contact over the Java Sea, between the islands of Kalimantan and Java.

 

He said the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact and that the weather had been cloudy.

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Unconfirmed reports have emerged online that wreckage, allegedly to be from the missing AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ8501 has been found in the waters off East Belitung. Sattelite images of weather show severe storm

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AirAsia Indonesia would like to issue a correction on the nationality breakdown of passenger and crew on board QZ8501 as follows:

 

Nationalities of passengers:

1 Singapore

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1 Malaysia

3 South Korea

1 United Kingdom

149 Indonesia

 

Nationalities of crew:

1 France

6 Indonesia

 

AirAsia will release further information as soon as it becomes available. Updated information will also be posted on the AirAsia website,

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"At least 40 bodies have been recovered from the sea in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, the Indonesian navy says.

 

The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the plane.

 

There has been no official confirmation that the remains come from the plane."

 

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