AirAsia flight QZ8501 , flying from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore,and carrying 162 people on board went missing on sunday morning. It flew over the Java Sea between Belitung island and Pontianak, on Indonesia’s part of Kalimantan island, tracked four minutes after its pilot, Captain Iriyanto, stopped responding to ATC. Iriyanto had requested at 6:12am Indonesia time to veer left (this was approved) and ascend to 38,000 feet from 32,000 feet. After Indonesia’s ATC informed the pilot at 6:14am Indonesia time of a revised height of 34,000 feet (because flight QZ8502 was cruising at 38,000 feet altitude), there was no response. The plane was then officially declared missing at 7:55am Indonesia time.
Red and white debris spotted Indonesia’s Kalimantan coast is persumed to be part the AirAsia jet and assuming that it might have crashed in shallow waters off the Indonesian coast, a transportation ministry official cited by Reuters said on Tuesday.spotted about 10 big objects and many more small white-coloured objects . Based on the size and colouring of the debris, it was likely to be part of the missing jet.The position is 10 kilometres (six miles) from the location the plane was last captured by radar,” officials said.Helicopters are preparing to go and examine the location as soon as weather permits.
Indonesian officials coming off a helicopter in Pangkalan Bun say they spotted several bodies floating in waters near where the missing AirAsia flight was last seen.The bodies were brought to an Indonesian navy ship.