Updated map and fact file on Air Asia flight QZ8501 that went missing with 162 people on board. Includes timeline …
- Indonesia air traffic control (ATC) lost contact with AirAsia flight QZ8501 bound for Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia and carrying 162 people on board went missing on Sunday morning, around an hour after it left Juanda International Airport at 5:35am Indonesia time.
- The plane was over the Java Sea between Belitung island and Pontianak, on Indonesia's part of Kalimantan island, tracked four minutes after its pilot, Captain Iriyanto, stopped responding to ATC. Iriyanto had requested at 6:12am Indonesia time to veer left (this was approved) and ascend to 38,000 feet from 32,000 feet. After Indonesia's ATC informed the pilot at 6:14am Indonesia time of a revised height of 34,000 feet (because flight QZ8502 was cruising at 38,000 feet altitude), there was no response. The plane was then officially declared missing at 7:55am Indonesia time.
- Search and rescue operations are ongoing with military assets deployed from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and most recently New Zealand scouring both the land and sea area in the northern and eastern parts of Belitung island. Aerial operations on Monday halted as dusk fell, but the hunt continued after nightfall in the Java sea and will expand to west Kalimantan on land, among other areas.
- Two oil slicks within the perimeter were on Monday sighted by a helicopter, but Indonesian national search and rescue chief said they were found to be coral reefs.
We've put together the stories of the passengers and crew on board the plane as well.
Culled from yahoo news
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