AirAsia flight QZ8501 from Indonesia to Singapore missing

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An AirAsia flight travelling from Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control with 162 people on board.

Flight QZ8501 lost contact at 07:24 (23:24 GMT), Malaysia-based AirAsia tweeted.

Search and rescue operations are under way.

Malaysia's national carrier Malaysia Airlines has suffered two disasters this year - flights MH370 and MH17 - but AirAsia has never lost a plane.

Flight MH370 disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March with 239 passengers and crew, and MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in July, killing all 298 on board.

The AirAsia flight had been due to arrive in Singapore at 08:30 (00:30GMT).

The missing jet had requested a "deviation" from the flight path due to bad weather, the company said.

The flight arrivals board at Changi Airport in Singapore, where the AirAsia flight was due

There were 155 passengers on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and one infant, the company said in a statement. Also on board were two pilots and five cabin crew.

Most of those on board were Indonesian, but there were six others on board, AirAsia has said: three South Koreans, and one each from France, Malaysia and Singapore.

An official with the transport ministry, Hadi Mustofa, told local media the plane lost contact over the Java Sea, between the islands of Kalimantan and Java.

He said the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact and that the weather had been cloudy.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30614627

There's reportedly a crash site off the east coast of Sumatera, in the waters of East Belitung, but nothing is confirmed yet.

Horrible year for Malaysian airlines. Horrible, horrible news in general.
 
Crashes are common. Disappeared planes with no traces are not.
 
All planes need technological upgrades... "Disappearing" planes is unacceptable in this day and age.
 
Don't worry this is normal. Nothing to see here folks.
 
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We should still be able to trace where they crashed though....

We trace things electronically. There are a lot of things that can interfere with that process. The plane didn't disappear into thin air. We are just having trouble locating it. Nothing strange or weird about that. The world is big and the ocean is deep. People today forget these facts. They think because we have the internet and Facebook and the NSA tapping phone calls and tracking people that things can't go missing. But even something as large as a 747 can go missing in the ocean.
 
Is it possible for hackers to take control of a plane remotely and fly it to the middle of the ocean?
 
Wikipedia "AirAsia".

It was an Indonesia AirAsia flight. The other two planes that went down were owned and operated by Malaysia. Indonesia AirAsia is an affiliate of the major AirAsia line, but it's based out of Jakarta and operated by Indonesians.
 
Both are right actually (well both aren't wrong). QZ8501 is an Indonesian AirAsia plane, but the brand association is very much with Malaysia, unfortunately, in this case.
 
How many of these planes were new? I remember reading about third world countries buying used old planes. Hell, the last time I went to Cabo...the goddamn plane had tape on one of the wings.
 
AirAsia is a pretty well-run outfit. One of the first to professionalize the budget airline in Asia and help raise the profile of the industry. The plane itself is 6-7 years old, young by commercial aircraft measure.
 
Another day, another missing plane. Hopefully they find this one.
 
I thank God that SuperJediHero got banned before this happened, so we don't have to endure the kind of insane conspiracy theories he flooded the MH 370 thread with.

I bet this Air Asia plane will be found before 2014 ends.
 

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