A320 Malaysian low-cost airline Air Asia has disappeared early Sunday morning between Indonesia and Singapore with 162 people on board, announced the local authorities and the company.
"Jakarta has lost contact with the Air Asia flight between Surabaya and Singapore at 7:55 am" local time (ie 0:55 French time), said a spokesman for the Indonesian Ministry of Transport, J.
A. Barata. The A320-200 was carrying seven crew members and 155 passengers, including 16 children and an infant, said the director general of civil aviation of Indonesia, Djoko Murjatmodjo.
According to MetroTV television channel, 149 Indonesians were on board, and three South Koreans, a Briton, a Malaysian and Singaporean, in terms of passengers. According to a statement posted on the Facebook account of Air Asia, a French would be on board the aircraft, as co-pilot of the unit.
The QZ8501 flight left Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, on the Indonesian island of Java, at 5:20 and had to land at Singapore Changi Airport at 8:30 am local time.
"The Airbus pilot requested to deviate" from its flight plan
The Directorate of Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore revealed in a statement that the contact was lost in the Indonesian airspace, "200 nautical miles (350 km) southeast of the border between the regions flight information Jakarta and Singapore. "The pilot of the Airbus A320 "asked deviate" from its flight plan because of bad weather, said the Malaysian company on his Facebook account. "Communication with the aircraft was lost while he was still under the control of the Indonesian authorities Air Traffic (ATC)," said Air Asia.
VIDEO. The pilot would have asked to change course because of the weather
Air Asia announced that a search operation was launched from the center of search and rescue on the island of Bangka, Java Sea, to try to locate the aircraft. "At the moment we have unfortunately no other information on the situation of passengers and crew members on board," the company said.
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