An AirAsia flight carrying 155 people from the Indonesian city of Surabaya toSingapore lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday, officials in the region and the budget carrier said.
AirAsia confirmed its flight had lost contact with air traffic control and said a search-and-rescue operation had been launched. In a statement AirAsia said, " There were 155 passengers on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant. Also on board were 2 pilots and 5 cabin crew."
Flight QZ 8501, an Airbus 320-200, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 am. Contact with the plane was lost 42 minutes after takeoff. There was no Indian nationals on board. The plane took off from Surabaya (Indonesia) at 5.20 am local time and was scheduled to land at Singapore's Changi Airport at 8.30 am.
The aircraft was on the submitted flight plan route and was requesting deviation due to enroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost while it was still under the control of the Indonesian air traffic control," the airline said in a statement.
No distress signal had been sent, said Joko Muryo Atmodjo, air transportation director at the Indonesian Transport Ministry.
Soon after the flight goes missing, AirAsia changed the colour of its social media logo from red to grey.
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