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An
AirAsia flight - which was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration
number PK-AXC (pictured above) - that departed Surabaya early Sunday morning
was meant to land at Changi Airport
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A
massive search and rescue operation is under way for missing Air Asia flight
bound for Singapore from Indonesia which lost contact with air traffic control
after flying through bad weather.
Daily Mail/RT.com report AirAsia
flight QZ8501 departed Surabaya, in Indonesia, on Sunday at 5.30am local time,
and was scheduled to land at Changi Airport, in Singapore, at 8.30am (Singapore
local time).
It
has been reported there were 155 passengers on board - including 138 adults, 16
children and 1 infant, and AirAsia have confirmed there were two pilots, four
flight attendants and one engineer on board.
Nationalities
of passengers and crew on-board are one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one French,
three South Koreans and 156 Indonesians.
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The
last communication between QZ8501's pilot and air traffic control was when he
requested to increase his altitude to 34,000 feet due to bad weather
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There is an unconfirmed
report of a wreckage being found east of Belitung Island in the Java Sea.
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The
flight manifest for the aircraft has been released, about six hours after it
went missing
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