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PATULOY ANG PAGHAHANAP SA NAWAWALANG EROPLANO NG AIR ASIA NG INDONISIA Search for missing AirAsia jet #QZ8501 bound for Singapore from Indonesia resumes WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR: - AirAsia flight QZ8501 bound for Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia and carrying 162 people on board went missing Sunday morning. - Contact with the plane was lost around an hour after departure, somewhere over the Java Sea between Belitung island and Pontianak, on Indonesias part of Kalimantan island. - Ongoing search and rescue operations with military assets deployed from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and most recently Australia resumed on Monday morning scouring both the land and sea area around Belitung. LATEST UPDATES: Monday, 29 December 8:20am: Australia has joined the ongoing search for the missing aircraft, sending one AP-3C Orion to assist in operations. Singapore Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing sent off two ships — the RSS Supreme, a Formidable-class frigate, and the RSS Valour, a Missile corvette — on Sunday evening at 11:55pm Singapore time, to assist in the search. Two Singapore Air Force C130s will also be sent out this morning in ongoing operations, restarted by Indonesia on Monday.