AirAsia Info - JC Mac Farlane - @Macfarlane123

The captain in command had a total of 6,100 flying hours and the first officer had a total of 2,275 flying hours, according to the airline. The aircraft had undergone its last scheduled maintenance on November 16, 2014.

The flight manifest for the jet showed there were 155 passengers on board plus seven crew members.

Of the passengers, 156 were Indonesians, three were South Korean, and there was one traveler each from Malaysia and Singapore and France, according to AirAsia.

 

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Another flight 'in difficulties' - JC Mac Farlane @Macfarlane123

Another AirAsia flight, travelling from Penang to Langkawi, turns back with technical difficulties

JC Mac Farlane - @Macfarlane123 AirAsian Search Effort

The Indonesian air force says two planes have been dispatched to scour an area of the Java Sea, southwest of Pangkalan Bun in Kalimantan province -- around halfway along the flight's expected route.

Air force spokesman Hadi Cahyanto said: "The weather is cloudy and the area is surrounded by sea. We are still on our way so we won't make an assumption on what happened to the plane."

JC Mac Farlane - @Macfarlane123 AirAsian Missing Plane

A massive sea search began Sunday morning after an AirAsia Airbus A320-200 disappeared during a flight from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore, shortly after the pilots requested a change of flight plan because of weather, the airline said.

Flight QZ8501, which had 162 people on board, lost contact with air traffic control at 7:24 a.m. Sunday local time near Belitung Island, Indonesia, according to a statement from AirAsia. It was scheduled to land in Singapore at 8:30 a.m. local time.

The plane was several hours past the time when its fuel would have been exhausted, Indonesian officials said during a news conference Sunday.

JC Mac Farlane - @Macfarlane123 AirAsia Plane Missing

The missing plane was on a well monitored flight path over the Java Sea, less than an hour's flying time from major regional hubs including Singapore and Jakarta.

Search planes and ships will fan out from the point where it disappeared from radar screens and experts say they should not have much trouble finding it.

It will, however, bring back anguished memories of the two other aircraft with a Malaysian connection lost this year.

A search is still continuing in the Indian ocean for a Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared without a trace in March.

Missing Asia Plane. AirAsia

Indonesian navy official told BBC no wreckage of #QZ5801 has been found. Poor weather conditions in search area, visibility between 5-10km.

AirAsia

AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 (Surabaya LT) this morning. The flight took off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya at 0535hours.
The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC. There were two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer on board.
The captain in command had a total of 6,100 flying hours and the first officer a total of 2,275 flying hours 
There were 155 passengers on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant. Also on board were 2 pilots and 5 cabin crew.
Nationalities of passengers and crew onboard are as below:
1 Singapore
1 Malaysia
3 South Korean
157 Indonesia
At this time, search and rescue operations are being conducted under the guidance of The Indonesia of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). AirAsia Indonesia is cooperating fully and assisting the investigation in every possible way.
The aircraft was on the submitted flight plan route and was requesting deviation due to enroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost while it was still under the control of the Indonesian Air Traffic Control (ATC).
The aircraft had undergone its last scheduled maintenance on 16 November 2014.