An AirAsia flight traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control early Sunday morning, the airline confirmed.
Flight QZ 8501 — an Airbus 320-200 — lost communication with Indonesia’s Surabaya Juanda International Airport at 7:24 Singapore time on Sunday morning, the airline said. The plane “was requesting deviation due to enroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost,” AirAsia said in a statement.
The plane took off at 5:20 a.m. and was scheduled to land over five hours ago, at 8:30 a.m. local time, according to AFP.
“The weather was not good — it was bad — at …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
