AirAsia QZ8501 Lost Contact
December 27, 2014 7:50 PM   Subscribe

AirAsia Flight QZ8501 from Surabaya (Indonesia) to Singapore lost contact with Jakarta air traffic control at 2317 GMT. CNBC reports that the plane had asked for an "unusual route" before losing contact.

AirAsia is a Malaysian low-budget airline, unrelated to Malaysia Airlines, and has not had any significant air incidents so far.
posted by divabat (3 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Let's wait a bit until there is more information rather than live-blog another event. -- mathowie



 
here we go again
posted by Jacqueline at 7:51 PM on December 27, 2014


Let us at least hope.
posted by Thing at 7:52 PM on December 27, 2014


Damn. If something terrible has happened, God forbid, I hope they can find out what it was.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 7:58 PM on December 27, 2014


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