Thread: AirAsia Flight From Surabaya to Singapore Loses Contact

AirAsia Flight From Surabaya to Singapore Loses Contact

155 pax, 3 hours late.

Jakarta. An Air Asia flight carrying 155 passengers from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control over the Java Sea, authorities say.Flight QZ 8501, which left Surabaya at 05.20 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive at its destination at 08.30 a.m.

Singapore time, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 a.m.“Up until now, we’ve lost contact with the plane,” Wisnu Darjono, director for safety and standards at the State Enterprise for Aviation Navigation Services in Indonesia, told news portal Tempo.co.

The plane is carrying 155 passengers, including 138 adults, 16 children, one infant, two pilots, four cabin crews and one technician, media have reported. The pilot has been named as Capt. Irianto.
http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.co...loses-contact/

BBC News - Air Asia flight missing - reports

Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa said the aircraft, flight number QZ 8501, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 a.m local time. (2317 GMT).

He said the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact. The flight had been due in Singapore at 8:30 a.m. Singapore
time (0030 GMT). The Singapore airport said on its website the
status of the flight was "delayed".
[With Reuters and AFP, Developing]
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News...e-missing.html

Gota happen sooner or later, thousands of flights made everyday.

Glad I wasn't on it.

Oh God no , lets hope for the best

^

Watching it live on BBC,

Whatever happened its down because it would of run out of fuel by now if still flying.

I fly tomorrow

I guess we should ask. Why the one technician? Who was he/she and why?
Tried to reboot the flight controls in mid flight?

The sinking "oh no" feeling.

Time is reporting bad weather in that area.

Missing Plane AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 Lost With 162 Aboard

I just read AirAsia has up until now an impeccable safety record , It seems now that will change ,itis a shame as they are good to travel on and I shall continue to do so.

I think it's a case of RIP now...

Originally Posted by kingwilly

I think it's a case of RIP now...

Yes, most likely it is

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

I guess we should ask. Why the one technician? Who was he/she and why?
Tried to reboot the flight controls in mid flight?

Don't feed ENT, he will have a conspiracy theory field day after this.

Originally Posted by zygote1

I fly tomorrow

With Air Asia?

I'm flying the day after, but with Garuda.

Current satellite photo from Japan Meteorological Agency. Looks like bad weather along the whole route. Surabaya origin approximately at green square. Intended destination Singapore approximately at pink square. Time report indicates the area of last contact between Belitung island and Borneo shown by the red circle.

last radar position was right in the middle of those thunderstorms

A MASSIVE air and sea search and rescue operation has been launched to find a missing AirAsia passenger jet, which lost contact with air officials off the coast of Java. The passenger jet, carrying 162 people, was travelling between the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore and was due to land at Changi Airport at 11.30am AEDT.


Early reports from local media suggest a plane has crashed east of Belitung Island in the Java Sea, but there is no confirmation that the stricken aircraft is Flight QZ8501


news com.au

Originally Posted by taxexile

Early reports from local media suggest a plane has crashed east of Belitung Island in the Java Sea, but there is no confirmation that the stricken aircraft is Flight QZ8501

No other aircrafts reported missing in the area so no need for a confirmation, if a plane has crashed there then we can be sure which plane it was.

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
1 France
3 South Korean
156 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.

AirAsia has established an Emergency Call Centre that is available for family or friends of those who may have been on board the aircraft. The number is: +622129850801.

AirAsia will release further information as soon as it becomes available. Updated information will also be posted on the AirAsia website, AirAsia | Budget Airline | Fly from Singapore to Bangkok, Bali, Tokyo, Sydney and more.

Airborne at 5:20am. Lost contact at 6:17am. Lots of time to reach cruising altitude of 35000 ft+ Would that not put it well above thunderstorm activity? This kind of weather can be pretty hazardous at lower altitudes, especially for take -off and landing, but not usually at higher altitudes??

Thunderstorms, particularly those around Indonesia, can exceed 65,000 feet in height. Given choices, most pilots try to go round them. From the weather maps the entire region is covered in cloud and this year's NE monsoon is very intense indeed as evidenced by the flooding in peninsula Malaysia.
Lightning strikes, updrafts, downdrafts........also, the higher you are in a thunderstorm the worse it is.

Originally Posted by koman

Airborne at 5:20am. Lost contact at 6:17am. Lots of time to reach cruising altitude of 35000 ft+ Would that not put it well above thunderstorm activity? This kind of weather can be pretty hazardous at lower altitudes, especially for take -off and landing, but not usually at higher altitudes??

The plane was at 32,000ft when the captain radio'd through for the flight deviation, he wanted to go up to 38,000ft to get above the clouds.

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

I guess we should ask. Why the one technician? Who was he/she and why?
Tried to reboot the flight controls in mid flight?

Don't feed ENT, he will have a conspiracy theory field day after this.

Fwkwit.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Thunderstorms, particularly those around Indonesia, can exceed 65,000 feet in height. Given choices, most pilots try to go round them. From the weather maps the entire region is covered in cloud and this year's NE monsoon is very intense indeed as evidenced by the flooding in peninsula Malaysia.
Lightning strikes, updrafts, downdrafts........also, the higher you are in a thunderstorm the worse it is.

Interesting comments.

Malaysian Airlines own Air Asia, don't they ? This could be the final blow for them.