AirAsia flight QZ8501 missing.
December 28, 2014 5:21 PM   Subscribe

AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 to Singapore missing. [BBC] An AirAsia Indonesia airliner flying from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board has gone missing.

Key Points
- Contact with Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 lost after it left Surabaya in Indonesia
- The Airbus A320-200 was carrying 162 people when it went missing over the sea en route to Singapore
- Air search called off at 10:30 GMT due to poor visibility, but sea rescue operation continues
- The plane had asked to change its flight path due to bad weather, AirAsia says
- Most on board are Indonesian - one passenger has been confirmed as a British national
- An emergency phone line for relatives has been set up - +622 129 850 801 [BBC 'As it Happened']
posted by Fizz (3 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, it's terrible that the plane is missing, but it seems like there still isn't any more concrete info beyond the fact that it's gone missing for unknown reasons and there's no results from the search yet; let's hold off on a post unless and until there's something more to post about. -- cortex



 
Seriously? This sucks.
posted by oceanjesse at 5:25 PM on December 28, 2014


The search has resumed.
"First Admiral Sigit Setiayana, the naval aviation commander at the Surabaya air force base, said Monday that 12 navy ships, five planes, three helicopters and a number of warships were searching an area of east and southeast Belitung island and nearby waters."[Via]
posted by Fizz at 5:26 PM on December 28, 2014


I haven't delved into the conspiracy/black helicopter/Illuminati theories on this yet, but I just know that that corner of the web is going nuts right about now.
posted by zardoz at 5:32 PM on December 28, 2014


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