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AirAsia flight QZ8501 crashes in Java Sea, wreckage found in Belitung
According to reports the AirAsia flight QZ8501from Indonesia to Singapore which lost contact with the ATC has crashed in the Java Sea. The wreckage has been found in the waters off East Belitung, off the east coast of Sumatra.
The aircraft was between the Indonesian port of Tanjung Pandan and the town of Pontianak, in West Kalimantan on Borneo island, when it went missing, Atmodjo told a news conference.
The aircraft had been flying at 32,000 feet and had asked to fly at 38,000 feet to avoid clouds, he said.
Tanjung Pandan is the main town on Belitung island, roughly half-way between Surabaya and Singapore, and Singapore's Channel News Asia television said there was bad weather over the island at the time the plane went missing.
AirAsia flight from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on-board reportedly went missing today after losing contact with air traffic controllers.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/airasia-flight-from-indonesia-to-singapore-goes-missing/1/409199.html
AirAsia flight QZ8501 crashes in Java Sea, wreckage found in Belitung
According to reports the AirAsia flight QZ8501from Indonesia to Singapore which lost contact with the ATC has crashed in the Java Sea. The wreckage has been found in the waters off East Belitung, off the east coast of Sumatra.
The aircraft was between the Indonesian port of Tanjung Pandan and the town of Pontianak, in West Kalimantan on Borneo island, when it went missing, Atmodjo told a news conference.
The aircraft had been flying at 32,000 feet and had asked to fly at 38,000 feet to avoid clouds, he said.
Tanjung Pandan is the main town on Belitung island, roughly half-way between Surabaya and Singapore, and Singapore's Channel News Asia television said there was bad weather over the island at the time the plane went missing.
AirAsia flight from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on-board reportedly went missing today after losing contact with air traffic controllers.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/airasia-flight-from-indonesia-to-singapore-goes-missing/1/409199.html
