The search and locate operation for the missing Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 will expand to land on Tuesday, the chief of Indonesias search and rescue agency Basarnas told reporters late on Monday. Search operations tomorrow will expand to land, to, among others, the western part of west Kalimantan province, said F. H. Bambang Soelistyo at a media briefing in Jakarta. He said the multinational operation involving from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea would continue in the Java sea past dusk on Monday. Air operations will continue on Tuesday morning. The plan had been to halt all operations at dusk on Monday, as was the case on Sunday, the day the AirAsia flight went missing en route from Surabaya to Singapore. We want the search operation to complete and succeed fast, said Bambang Soelistyo. He noted that an object detected on Monday morning in the Java sea turned out to be from a personal locator beacon usually worn by rescuers and not the missing jet. Basarnas was also deploying a vessel to a sea area between Bangka island and Belitung island where there is oil spill. Bambang Soelistyo said there was no confirmation whether the spill was from a plane. There has also been no sign of debris or any other form of plane wreckage from the air. But we are making checks anyway. A vessel is on the way there as we speak, he said. Tomorrow search operations will be on the existing seven sectors plus four more - two on land in west Kalimantan province and another two are sea areas south of Belitung island.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:20:02 +0000