Following the crash of the Indonesia AirAsia A320 on Sunday, the airline has suspended its flights between Surabaya and Singapore. From Sunday 4th January, flight QZ678 and QZ679 will no longer operate its 4 times a week service. On 28th December 2014, the Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 operated what seems to be a charter service…
Sky News are reporting that the Air Asia Flight QZ8501 was not authorised to fly and that the company could lose its licence in Indonesia as it emerges the doomed flight was not allowed to travel on the day of the crash. Indonesia’s transport ministry has suspended all AirAsia flights between…
Sky News reports that Four “large objects” have been spotted in the Java Sea around 90ft (30m) underwater, says the man leading the hunt for the AirAsia plane that crashed six days ago. Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters: “I’m confident this is part of the AirAsia plane.” He said…
Indonesian meteorology agency has said that the crash of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 was caused by “very bad weather”. As search operations for wreckage and bodies continue, bad weather and heavy seas are continuing to hamper. The Search and rescue agency chief Bambang Soelistyo said a remotely operated underwater vehicle was being lowered today to…
Reuters are reporting that in the search for the missing Air Asia plane #QZ8501 two big objects have been found 30 meters underwater according to Indonesia Search and Rescue Agency. In related news the search area has widened by almost 200 nautical miles as reports suggest that debris from the crash may have drifted that…
The search for flight recorders from AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 has moved underwater with the arrival of specialist equipment from France. A team will use the sensitive acoustic equipment to listen for signals from the ‘black box’ recorders.
Poor weather over the Java Sea has slowed efforts to retrieve bodies and debris from the crashed AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501. The AirAsia Airbus A320-200 came down on Sunday on route from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore carrying 162 people.A total of seven bodies have been pulled from the water so far, while parts of…
“During the morning of January 2nd, local time, a ship will be taking the investigators to the search area, with detection equipment including hydrophones, in order to try to locate the acoustic beacons from the two flight recorders,” BEA said in a statement.
