Bad weather hinders efforts in hunt for AirAsia plane
More ships arrived Friday with sensitive equipment to hunt for the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501 and the more than 150 people still missing since it crashed into the sea five days ago. Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang- Photo taken from an Indonesian aircraft over the Java Sea shows possible plane debris from the missing AirAsia flight. (Photo: AFP)
- Sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik makes a sand art to pray for Air Asia Indonesia airliner which went missing on its way to Singapore with 162 people on board at Gopalpur sea beach (Photo: PTI)
- A man is silhouetted against an electronic sign board instructing relatives and next-of-kin to gather at a holding area at the Changi International Airport where AirAsia Flight 8501 from Surabaya, Indonesia was scheduled to land, in Singapore. (
- "We don't dare to pressume what has happened exceped that it has lost contact." Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia's acting director general of transportation, told reporters. He said the last contact between pilot and the air traffic control was at 6.13
- AirAsia, a regional low-cost carrier with presence in several Southeast Asian countries, said in a statement that the missing Airbus A330-300 was on the submitted flight plan route. (Photo: AP)
- Relatives of the passengers of AirAsia flight QZ8501 wait for the latest news on the missing jetliner at a crisis center set up by local authority at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya. (Photo: AP)
- Relatives of the passengers onboard AirAsia flight QZ8501, check the plane's manifest at a crisis center set up by local authority at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya. (Photo: AP)
- An airport official checks a map of Indonesia at the crisis center set up by local authority for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya. (Photo: AP)
- A relative of the passengers of AirAsia flight QZ8501 weeps as she waits for the latest news on the missing jetliner at Juanda International Airport in Indonesia. (Photo: AP)
- Relatives of the passengers of AirAsia flight QZ8501 wait for the latest news on the missing jetliner at a crisis center set up by local authority at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. (Photo: AP)
- A relative of Air Asia flight QZ8501 passengers weep as she waits for the latest news on the missing jetliner at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. (Photo: AP)
- An AirAsia plane with 161 people on board lost contact with ground control, while flying over the Java Sea after taking off from a provincial city in Indonesia for Singapore, and search and rescue operations were underway. (Photo: AP)
- Based on the plane's last known coordinates, the aircraft probably crashed into the water and "is at the bottom of the sea," Indonesia search-and-rescue chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said. A storm alone isn't going to bring down a modern plane
- Minutes later, the jet was gone from the radar without issuing a distress signal. The plane is believed to have crashed into Indonesia's Java Sea, but broad aerial surveys so far have turned up no firm evidence of the missing Airbus A320-200. On
- The AirAsia pilots had been worried about the weather and had sought permission to climb above threatening clouds. The last communication from the cockpit to air traffic control was a request by one of the pilots to climb from 32,000 feet to 38,000
- The US navy is also joining the search. It said in a statement that the USS Sampson, a destroyer, which was already on an independent deployment in the Western Pacific, and will arrive in the area later on Tuesday. The longer the search goes without
- He said the search area would be expanded to land areas, with four military helicopters dispatched just after sunrise near Pangkalan Bun on the western part of Borneo island and to smaller islands of Bangka and Belitung. "Until now, we have not yet
- He said the search area would be expanded to land areas, with four military helicopters dispatched just after sunrise near Pangkalan Bun on the western part of Borneo island and to smaller islands of Bangka and Belitung. Most of the craft were
- At least 30 ships, 15 aircraft and seven helicopters were looking for the jet carrying 162 people, said Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo. Most of the craft were Indonesian but Singapore, Malaysia and Australia
- More planes will be in the air and more ships on the sea on Tuesday hunting for AirAsia Flight 8501 in a widening search off Indonesia that has dragged into a third day without any solid leads.
- In Malaysia, families of those on the MH370 flight that went missing without a trace in March hoped those lost in the latest tragedy could at least have a proper burial. "The families can now have a closure and have a peace of mind which I am dying
- More than 48 hours after the Airbus A320-200 lost contact carrying 162 people to Singapore, aerial searchers spotted items in the Java Sea which officials said were from the plane. Soon after they began recovering dozens of bodies. As the first body
- Relatives of passengers on AirAsia flight QZ8501 began crying hysterically and fainting Tuesday as Indonesian television footage showed a body floating in the sea during aerial searches for the plane. At least two distraught family members were
- An Indonesian warship recovered more than 40 bodies from the sea Tuesday in the search for the AirAsia jet, a navy spokesman said. "Based on the navy radio, it has been reported that the warship Bung Tomo has retrieved 40 bodies and the number is
- Relatives of passengers of the missing AirAsia Flight 8501 react upon seeing the news on television about the findings of bodies on the waters near the site where the jetliner disappeared, at the crisis center at Juanda International Airport in
- Indonesian Air Force personnel carry airplane parts recovered from the water near the site where AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared, at the airbase in Pangkalan Bun, Central Borneo, Indonesia (Photo: AP)
- Dewi Nurcahyani Commander of Indonesian Air Force 1st Operational Command Rear Marshall Dwi Putranto, center, shows the airplane parts and a suitcase found floating on the water near the site where AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared, during a press
- An Indonesian Air Force personnel show a suitcase and airplane parts, on the table, recovered from the water near the site where AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared, during a press conference at the airbase in Pangkalan Bun, Central Borneo, Indonesia (
- Commander of 1st Indonesian Air Force Operational Command Rear Marshall Dwi Putranto, right, shows airplane parts and a suitcase found floating on the water near the site where AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared, during a press conference at the
- AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes, center, talks to media during a press conference at the crisis center at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia (Photo: AP)
- Indonesian President Joko Widodo, left, talks with AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes, right, upon his arrival at the crisis center at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia (Photo: AP)
- Relatives of passengers of the missing AirAsia Flight 8501 react upon seeing the news on television about the findings of bodies on the waters near the site where the jetliner disappeared, at the crisis center at Juanda International Airport in
- The black boxes hold key data that will help investigators determine the cause of the crash, but they have yet to be recovered. Items found so far include a life jacket, an emergency exit door, an inflatable slide, children's shoes and luggage.
- Aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas in Australia said there's a chance the plane hit the water largely intact, and that many passengers remain inside it. He added that bodies recovered so far would have come out with a breach in the fuselage. It's
- The coffin was then taken to a village and lowered into a muddy grave, following Muslim obligations requiring bodies to be buried quickly. An imam said a simple prayer as about 150 people gathered in the drizzling rain, and red flowers were
- Hayati Lutfiah Hamid's identity was confirmed by fingerprints and other means, said Col. Budiyono of East Java's Disaster Victim Identification Unit. Her body, in a dark casket topped with flowers, was handed over to family members during a brief
- Soelistyo estimated the fuselage was at a depth of 25 meters to 30 meters (about 80 feet to 100 feet), and vowed to recover the bodies of "our brothers and sisters ... whatever conditions we face." So far, one victim of the crash has been returned
- But he said bad weather, which has hindered the search the last several days, was a worry. A drizzle and light clouds covered the area Friday morning, but rain, strong winds and high waves up to 4 meters (13 feet) were forecast until Sunday. Strong
- Nine planes, many with metal detecting equipment, were also scouring a 13,500 square kilometer (8,380 square mile) area off Pangkalan Bun, the closest town on Borneo island to the search area. Two Japanese ships with three helicopters were on their
- The Airbus A320 crashed into the Java Sea on Sunday with 162 people on board. Ten bodies have been recovered so far, with the latest, a female victim, announced Friday morning.
- "We will focus on underwater detection," he said, adding ships from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the U.S. had been on the scene since before dawn Friday to try to pinpoint wreckage and the all-important black boxes— the flight data and cockpit
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More ships arrived Friday with sensitive equipment to hunt for the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501 and the more than 150 people still missing since it crashed into the sea five days ago. Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang
Bad weather hinders efforts in hunt for AirAsia plane
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