Southeast Asia was mourning its third airline catastrophe of the year Sunday after an AirAsia jet with 162 people aboard vanished over an Indonesian sea in violent weather. The fate of Flight 8501 remained a mystery almost a full day after it vanished. The Airbus A320, was bound for Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia, when it lost contact with air-traffic control Sunday at about 7:24 a.m. Singapore time (6:24 p.m. ET on Saturday), the airline said. We have no idea at the moment what went wrong, said Tony Fernandes, CEO of the regional, low-cost carrier. Lets not speculate at the moment. The search resumed after dawn Monday — early Sunday evening ET. First Admiral Sigit Setiayana, the Naval Aviation Center commander at the Surabaya air force base, said that 12 navy ships, five planes, three helicopters and a number of warships were talking part, along with ships and planes from Singapore and Malaysia. The Australian Air Force also sent a search plane.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:24:02 +0000
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