Air Asia flight bound for Singapore lost contact with air traffic

[looneytan]

Pls check the race and religion of the pilot.

I doubt he's arsehole fucker like you

 

[looneytan]

.. But first need to know the race and religion of the pilot.

Did he look like someone who fuck your mother? :oIo::oIo::oIo:

 

[Animalize]

British passenger on missing AirAsia flight was 'travelling with his two-year-old Singaporean daughter after other members of the family got an earlier flight'

• British man on missing AirAsia flight was 'travelling with young daughter'
  
• Chi Man Choi and two-year-old Singaporean daughter Zoe were on board
  
• Understood girl's Singaporean mother and older brother got earlier flight
• AirAsia QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control en route to Indonesia
• Plane left Surabaya, Indonesia with 155 passengers and six crew on board

By Emma Glanfield and Richard Shears for MailOnline
Published: 13:23 GMT, 28 December 2014 | Updated: 13:47 GMT, 28 December 2014

Hull-born Chi Man Choi (pictured), and his two-year-old daughter Zoe were on board the missing AirAsia flight which disappeared after departing Indonesia

The British passenger aboard the missing AirAsia flight was travelling with his two-year-old Singaporean daughter after other family members got an earlier flight from Indonesia, it is believed.

It is thought the man, named as Chi Man Choi, and his daughter Zoe were returning to Singapore and planned to reunite with the young girl's Singaporean mother, who travelled on an earlier flight from Surabaya, in Indonesia, with Zoe's older brother.

Mr Choi, who is believed to be from Hull, Yorkshire, originally and who graduated from the University of Essex, was the managing director at an energy company in Indonesia.

He purchased his plane ticket and that of his daughter on Boxing Day, according to the passenger manifest - and they were seated in the first row, in seats 1B and 1C.

AirAsia flight QZ8501 departed Surabaya at 5.30am local time and was scheduled to land at Singapore's Changi Airport at 8.30am local time.

However, it lost contact with air traffic control during the flight, just after the pilot reportedly asked to deviate from the flight path due to bad weather.

The Airbus A320, which was carrying 155 passengers - including 138 adults, 16 children and one infant - was last seen on radar at 6:16am local time but vanished less than a minute later.

Authorities confirmed the nationalities of the passengers included one Briton, one Singaporean, one Malaysian, three South Koreans and 149 Indonesians. It is believed the South Koreans were a husband, wife and their baby.

The British passenger aboard the missing AirAsia Airbus A320-200 (like the one pictured above) which lost contact with air control en route to Indonesia is believed to be a father who was travelling with his daughter

AirAsia flight QZ8501 departed Surabaya, Indonesia, at 5.30am local time and was scheduled to land at Singapore's Changi Airport at 8.30am local time. However, it lost contact with traffic control over the Java Sea

The last contact from the pilot was when he reportedly asked to deviate from the flight path due to bad weather. Pictured: A satellite image from about the time the flight went missing shows big thunderstorms in the area

There were also two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer on board, six of whom were from Indonesia and one from France.

Search and rescue helicopters, a Hercules aircraft, fishing boats and official vessels had been scouring the Java Sea, near Belitung, for any sign of the missing plane.

It followed an unconfirmed report of a wreckage spotted east of Belitung Island in the Java Sea, off the east coast of Samutra, 100 miles from where the plane was last tracked.

However, authorities confirmed mid-morning (British time) that the search operation had been halted due to darkness.

Hadi Mustofa, of Indonesia's transport ministry, said: 'We ended at 5:30pm (1030am GMT) because it was getting dark. The weather was also not too good as it was getting really cloudy.

'Tomorrow we will begin at 7am, or even earlier than that if the weather is good.'

Family and friends have gathered at Juanda Airport in Surabaya to learn about their loved ones on the flight

The Airbus A320, which was carrying 155 passengers - including 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant - was last seen on radar at 6:16 am but had vanished less than a minute later. Pictured: Relatives at Juanda Airport

Friends and family are gathering at the Indonesian airport as they await news of missing AirAsia flight QZ8501

Relatives could be seen visibly distressed as they waited for information and heard the search had halted

A relative looks at the list of passengers of the missing AirAsia flight at Juanda Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia

The Foreign Office confirmed today that it was aware a British national was on board the flight and said the passenger's next of kin had been informed.

A spokesman said: 'We are aware of an incident regarding AirAsia flight QZ8501.

'Our thoughts are with the passengers' families as they await further news.

'We have been informed by the local authorities that one British national was on board.

'Their next of kin has been informed, and we stand ready to provide consular assistance.'

A spokesman for the British Embassy in Jakarta said it was working with local authorities to establish further details.

AirAsia's chief executive Tony Fernandes, who also owns Premier League football club Queen's Park Rangers, posted a series of messages on Twitter today and said he was on his way to Surabaya Airport .

He said: 'Thank you for all your thoughts and prays. We must stay strong.

'My only thoughts are with the passengers and my crew.

'We put our hope in the SAR (search and rescue) operation and thank the Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysian governments.'

AirAsia's chief executive Tony Fernandes also owns Premier League football club Queen's Park Rangers

AirAsia's chief executive Tony Fernandes, who also owns Premier League football club QPR, took to Twitter

He said he was 'touched by the massive show of support' especially from fellow airlines.
He added: 'This is my worse nightmare (sic). But there is no stopping.
'Our priority is looking after all the next of kin for my staff and passengers. We will do whatever we can. We continue to pass information as it comes.
'I as your group CEO will be there through these hard times. We will go through this terrible ordeal together and I will try to see as many of you.'

TIMELINE OF AIRASIA FLIGHT QZ8501

• 5.35AM (local time) - Departed Surabaya, Indonesia
• 6.12am - Pilot requests to change the travel height of the plane to an altitude of 38,000 feet
• 6.17am - AirAsia flight QZ8501 loses contact with Jakarta Air Traffic Control
  
• 6.18am - The flight disappears from radar
• 7.55am - Flight is declared missing
  

According to Indonesia's Director of Air Transport, Djoko Murjatmodjo, contact with the aircraft was lost between Tanjung Pandan and Pontianak, a trading port city in west Kalimantan about 100 nautical miles south east of Tanjung Pandan.

He said: 'We hope we can find the location of the plane as soon as possible, and we hope that God will give us guidance to find it.'

AirAsia Indonesia announced the flight's disappearance via a statement on Facebook which said: 'AirAsia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07.24hrs this morning'.

'At the present time, we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and crew members on board, but we will keep all parties informed as more information becomes available.

'At this time, search and rescue operations are in progress and AirAsia is cooperating fully and assisting the rescue service.'

The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC.

The last communication between the pilot and air traffic control was when he requested to increase his altitude due to bad weather.

According to a leaked air traffic control sheet, the plane's speed had dropped to 353 knots, suggesting it was having trouble climbing, perhaps because of severe weather.

There was no distress signal from the cockpit of the twin-engine, single-aisle plane.

Speaking 10 hours after the plane lost contact, Indonesia Vice President Jusuf Kalla expressed deep concern.

'It is most possible that it has experienced an accident,' he said.

Director general of civil aviation Djoko Murjatmodjo briefs journalists during a press conference in Jakarta

An official from Indonesia's national search and rescue agency in Medan, North Sumatra, shows the last known position of AirAsia flight QZ8501. The flight disappeared from the radar just after 6.16am local time

Sunardi, a weather forecaster at the Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency, said dense storm clouds were detected up to 44,000 feet in the same area at the time the plane was reported to have lost contact.

'There could have been turbulence, lightning and vertical as well as horizontal strong winds within such clouds,' said Sunardi, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

Family and friends of those on board the missing flight have gathered at Juanda Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia, to await news of the missing flight.

AirAsia flies mostly in the South East Asian area, its reach being as far as Sydney and the Queensland Gold Coast.

The plane's disappearance comes just nine months after MH370 vanished while on its way from Malaysia to China. The Malaysia Airlines flight lost contact in March, with 239 passengers and crew on board, and has not been seen since.

Five months later, MH17 was flying over Ukrainian airspace when it was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. All 298 people on board the flight died, including 38 Australians.

AirAsia said family or friends of those who may have been on the aircraft can phone their emergency call centre on 00 622129850801.

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

British passenger on missing AirAsia flight was 'travelling with his two-year-old Singaporean daughter
after other members of the family got an earlier flight'



* British man on missing AirAsia flight was 'travelling with young daughter'
* Chi Man Choi and two-year-old Singaporean daughter Zoe were on board
* Understood girl's Singaporean mother and older brother got earlier flight

 

[AhMeng]

His LinkedIn Profile....http://sg.linkedin.com/pub/chi-man-choi/0/243/967

 

[Animalize]

Indonesia halts search for missing AirAsia plane as night falls

By Chris Nusatya and Michael Taylor
JAKARTA Sun Dec 28, 2014 9:00am EST

An Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320-200 passenger prepares to land at Sukarno-Hatta airport in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta in this January 30, 2013 file picture. REUTERS-Enny Nuraheni-Files

(Reuters) - Indonesia called off until first light a search for an AirAsia plane with 162 people on board that went missing on Sunday after pilots asked to change course to avoid bad weather during a flight from Indonesia's Surabaya city to Singapore.

Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501, an Airbus 320-200 carrying 155 passengers and seven crew, lost contact with Jakarta air traffic control at 6:17 a.m. (2317 GMT on Saturday). No distress signal had been sent, said Joko Muryo Atmodjo, an Indonesian transport ministry official.

On board were 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans and one each from Singapore, Malaysia and Britain, plus a French pilot, the airline said in a statement, correcting earlier information.

Tatang Kurniadi, head of Indonesia's National Committee of Safety Transportation, expressed hope of locating the aircraft quickly and said it was too early to detect any of the so-called electronic pings from its black box recorder.

"We are using our capacity to search on sea and land. Hopefully we can find the location of the plane as soon as possible," he told a news conference.

"What I need to emphasize is until now, we have not found out how the plane fell or what kind of emergency it was."

Indonesia AirAsia is 49 percent owned by Malaysia-based budget carrier AirAsia (AIRA.KL), which has had a clean safety record since it began operating 13 years ago. The AirAsia group also has affiliates in Thailand, the Philippines and India. The aircraft had accumulated approximately 23,000 flight hours in some 13,600 flights, according to Airbus (AIR.PA).

The pilots of QZ8501 "was requesting deviation due to en-route weather before communication with the aircraft was lost," the airline said in a statement. Singapore, Malaysia, Britain, South Korea and Australia offered to help in the search and any investigation. Malaysia said it was sending vessels and a C130 aircraft while Singapore had also sent a C130. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said a P3 Orion aircraft was on standby if needed.

ANXIOUS RELATIVES

Flight QZ8501 was between Tanjung Pandan on Indonesia's Belitung island and Pontianak, in West Kalimantan province on Borneo - almost halfway between Surabaya and Singapore - when it went missing. There was bad weather over Belitung at the time and the aircraft had been flying at 32,000 feet before asking to fly at 38,000 feet to avoid clouds.

In both Surabaya and Singapore, anxious relatives of people on the plane awaited news.

Louise Sidharta was at Singapore's Changi Airport waiting for her fiancée to return from a family holiday.

"It was supposed to be their last vacation before we got married," she said.

A man named Purnomo told TVOne in Surabaya of a lucky escape.

"I should have been on the flight," he said. "We, seven people, had planned to go to Singapore for vacation but this morning I had an emergency. I had my passport in hand."

Tony Fernandes, chief of Malaysia's AirAsia, said he was heading to Surabaya.

"My only thoughts are with the passengers and my crew. We put our hope in the SAR (search and rescue) operation and thank the Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysian governments," he said on Twitter.

AirAsia swapped its distinctive bright red logo for a grey background on its website and social media accounts.

The incident comes during a troubled year for Malaysia-affiliated airlines. Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on March 8 on a trip from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board and has not been found.

On July 17, Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.

Indonesia AirAsia has a fleet of 30 Airbus A320s. The missing plane has been in service for just over six years, according to airfleets.net.

All AirAsia-branded airlines operate aircraft made by Airbus, which has orders for several hundred planes from the group. AirAsia is considered one of the European planemaker's most important customers.

(Additional reporting by Siva Govindasamy, Saeed Hassan, Rujun Shen and Anshuman Daga in SINGAPORE, Tim Hepner in PARIS, Cindy Silviana, Gayatri Suroyo and Eveline Danubrata in JAKARTA and Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah in KUALA LUMPUR; Writing by Dean Yates and Martin Petty; Editing by Robert Birsel)

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

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Singaporean on board missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 is 2-year-old girl


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SINGAPORE - Local news agencies have reported that the Singaporean on board the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 is a two-year-old girl, who was travelling with her father, a British national.

Her Singaporean mother had travelled back to Singapore earlier from Surabaya with the child's older sibling, reported Channel News Asia.


Flight QZ8501 was travelling from Surabaya to Singapore on Sunday morning and due to arrive in Singapore at 8.30am (local time).

The plane left Juanda international airport in Surabaya in east Java at 5.35am (Indonesia time) and lost contact with air traffic control at 6.24am (Indonesia time), said AirAsia.

It has been about 15 hours since the plane had gone missing at the time of this report.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has issued a statement saying that assistance is being provided to relatives of Singaporean on board missing Indonesia AirAsia flight.

In response to media queries, CAAS said in the statement today (Dec 28) that the next-of-kin of the Singaporean on board missing flight QZ8501 had earlier been contacted and are at the Changi Airport Relatives Holding Area (RHA).

CAAS said they are being provided with all necessary assistance. Support is also likewise being provided to the relatives and friends of other affected passengers who are at the RHA.

Further updates will be provided once more information is available, said CAAS.

 

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[Sinkie]

This plane going missing has eclipsed the stupid Sony movie hack and North Korea's internet shutdown by Obama.

And it also eclipsed Najib's below par handling of the 9 states flood.

 

[JohnTan]

Good news! No NS man on this flight. Hence, no sinkie will have reason to skip their coming ICT. SAF's fighting strength is not compromised by this accident due to Malaysia's incompetence.

 

[tonychat]

AirAsia's chief executive Tony Fernandes, who also owns Premier League football club Queen's Park Rangers, posted a series of messages on Twitter today and said he was on his way to Surabaya Airport .

May i ask why is there a need to mention this part.. do we gives a fuck what he owns???? i don't understand.

 

[tonychat]

AirAsia's chief executive Tony Fernandes, who is a Christian and a British (a non-muslim), posted a series of messages on Twitter today and said he was on his way to Surabaya Airport .

Write like this more appropriate for this situation.

 

[Animalize]

IN FULL: Passengers on Air Asia flight QZ 8501

Sources: Detik.com, Metro TV, Indonesian Ministry of Transportation

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Crew:

Iriyanto (Captain)

Remi Emmanuel Plesel (First Officer)

Saiful Rakhmad (Engineer)

Flight Attendants:

Wanti Setiawati
Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi
Oscar Desano
Wismoyo Ari Prambudi

Passengers


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[Sinkie]

It's really a bad idea to climb over the thunderstorm...AirAsia QZ8501

When there is a raging thunderstorm and turbulence in the sky and you're flying at 32k feet, it is really a bad idea to climb over the thunderstorm to elevate to 38k feet, because while the plane is climbing, it is at an angle and at that speed, and still within the turbulent clouds, it can easily tilt over and stall. Besides, the higher you go, the chance of ice crystals forming and disrupting your instruments becomes higher. Clearly, the safe manoeuvre is to divert your route away from the thunderstorm at the same altitude, because one cannot out-climb a thunderstorm, which is known to form all the way to 55k feet and some even to 90k feet.

 

[Sinkie]

It's really a bad idea to climb over the thunderstorm...AirAsia QZ8501

Potentially when you're climbing from 32k feet to 38k feet, your plane will be tilted at an angle and at that speed, when hit by a very strong turbulence in such a thunderstorm, it can tilt even more acutely and can end up in a stall, like a plane in a tumbling washing machine.

The right cause of action is to fly away from the thunderstorm while maintaining altitude and hence stability. In any case, such thunderstorm clouds are known to form all the way to 55k feet and some even go all the way up to 90k feet.

One can never out-climb a thunderstorm cloud. The higher one go, the higher chance of ice crystal forming and disrupting the instrument readings.

Bad idea.