Melbourne student was on missing flight as the search resumes
Yahoo7 and Agencies
December 29, 2014, 9:19 pm
Melbourne student Kevin Soetjipto was on the missing on AirAsia flight as the search resumes.
Human error and bad weather are reportedly being blamed for the flight disappearing on Sunday.
An object spotted during a sea search for an AirAsia plane was not from the aircraft, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said yesterday.
Hope fades: Objects spotted not from missing flight QZ8501
"It has been checked and no sufficient evidence was found to confirm what was reported," Mr Kalla told a press conference at Surabaya airport from where the ill-fated plane departed.
Earlier, Indonesian officials said they had been informed that an Australian Orion aircraft had detected suspicious objects near Nangka island, about 160 kilometres southwest of Pangkalan Bun, near central Kalimantan - 1120 kilometres from the location where the plane lost contact.
"However, we cannot be sure whether it is part of the missing AirAsia plane," Putranto said.
"We are now moving in that direction, which is in cloudy conditions."
An Indonesian helicopter also saw two oil slicks in the search area. It is not confirmed as to whether these are related to the missing plane.
The information comes after Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency chief said the plane - which had 162 people on board en route for Singapore - is likely at the bottom of the sea.
“Based on the coordinates given to us and evaluation that the estimated crash position is in the sea, the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom of the sea,” Mr Bambang Soelistyo told a press conference.
“That’s the preliminary suspicion and it can develop based on the evaluation of the result of our search.”
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Missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 was not far from the shoreline when it went missing between Tanjung Pandan and Pontianak. Photo: 7News
WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR:
- Search efforts have resumed for AirAsia flight QZ8501 for Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia and carrying 162 people on board went missing Sunday morning.
- Contact with the plane was lost around an hour after departure, somewhere over the Java Sea between Belitung island and Pontianak, on Indonesia's part of Kalimantan island.
- Search and rescue operations were launched with the Indonesian army as well as Singapore and Malaysia scouring the area around Belitung, but have been suspended for the night.
- Australian air force pilots have joined the search for the AirAsia plane
Indonesia resumed a sea and aerial search at dawn Monday for an AirAsia plane that went missing in the Java Sea with 162 people on board, an official said, as anguished relatives waited desperately for news.
"We have resumed the search for the missing AirAsia plane at 6:00 am (2300 GMT Sunday). We are heading to east Belitung island," Tatang Zainuddin, deputy operations chief of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) told AFP.
"We are expecting vessels and planes from Malaysia and Singapore (to assist in the search). We hope we can find the plane as soon as possible," Zainuddin said.
The Airbus A320-200 disappeared en route from Surabaya in Indonesia's east Java to Singapore, in the third crisis for a Malaysian carrier this year.
The crew had requested a change of flight plan due to stormy weather shortly after they took off.
The Australian Defence Force has reportedly deployed a AP-3C Orion Patrol Aircraft to help with the search.
MSNBC TV has reported the plane had may have attempted to pass over a sixty-thousand foot, level five thunderstorm before it went missing.
FAA licenced commercial pilot Anthony Roman told MSNBC it is likely the plane would have tried to go above the storm.
He said: “This particular aircraft was attempting to override the thunderstorm."
According to airliners.net, entering a level five storm means you’re liable to “hurt yourself”, reported NewsCorp.
Around 11 hours later, the search halted with no sign of the plane and was set to resume at 7am Monday -- or earlier if the weather allows, Indonesian transport ministry official Hadi Mustofa told AFP.
AirAsia said 155 of those on board Flight QZ8501 were Indonesians, with three South Koreans and one person each from Singapore, Malaysia, Britain and France. The Frenchman was the co-pilot.
With hard details few and far between, panicked relatives gathered at Singapore's Changi airport and in Surabaya hundreds of Indonesians thronged the terminal.
An anguished 45-year-old woman said she had six family members on the plane.
"They were going to Singapore for a holiday," she told AFP in Surabaya. "They have always flown with AirAsia and there was no problem. I am very worried that the plane might have crashed."
Indonesian Louis Sidartha, 25, told reporters in Singapore that her fiance was on board the flight.
They had taken separate flights from Surabaya to Singapore. She only found out about the missing aircraft upon arriving in Singapore on a later flight.
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the twin-engine aircraft around an hour after it left Surabaya's Juanda international airport at about 5:20am (2220 GMT Saturday).
Relatives of QZ8501 passengers anxiously await more information as the search continues for the aircraft. Photo: AP
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- Multinational search -
Shortly before disappearing, the pilot asked to ascend by 6,000 feet to 38,000 feet to avoid heavy clouds, according to an Indonesian transport ministry official.
"The plane requested to air traffic control to fly to the left side, which was approved," Djoko Murjatmodjo told a press conference.
"But their request to fly to 38,000 feet from 32,000 feet could not be approved at that time due to traffic, there was a flight above, and five minutes later the flight disappeared from radar."
"According to our climate radar, the weather was not good. There was enough cumulonimbus (cloud) there," said Murjatmodjo.
He said Indonesia had deployed seven aircraft, four navy ships and six boats from the search and rescue agency.
The search focused on waters around the islands of Bangka and Belitung in the Java Sea, across from Kalimantan on Borneo island.
But Murjatmodjo said the transport ministry had also asked the army to carry out ground searches, including in mountainous areas.
"We have focused all our strength, from the search and rescue agency, the military, police and help from the community as well as the fishermen," said rescue agency chief F.H.B. Soelistyo.
He said three ships and three planes from Malaysia would join the search Monday. A Singaporean C130 plane joined Sunday's operation, and two Singaporean planes would be deployed Monday with Australia also offering help.
France's air accident investigation authority, the BEA, said two safety investigators, accompanied by two Airbus technical advisors, would leave for Jakarta on Sunday evening.
- 'Massive shock' -
The aircraft was operated by AirAsia Indonesia, a unit of Malaysian-based AirAsia which dominates Southeast Asia's booming low-cost airline market.
AirAsia's flamboyant boss Tony Fernandes, a former record industry executive who acquired the then-failing airline in 2001, arrived in Surabaya, where most of the passengers are from.
"Obviously this is a massive shock to us and we are devastated by what has happened. It's unbelievable," he told a press conference.
"We don't want to speculate. We don't know what's happened yet so we'll wait for the accident investigation... Our concern right now is for the relatives and the next of kin."
A relative of AirAsia flight QZ8501 passengers weeps as she waits for the latest news on the missing jetliner at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Photo: AP
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo said his nation was "praying for the safety" of those onboard.
His country, a vast archipelago with poor land transport infrastructure, has seen explosive growth in low-cost air travel over recent years.
But the air industry has been blighted by poor safety standards in an area that also experiences extreme weather.
AirAsia, which has never suffered a fatal accident, said the missing jet last underwent maintenance on November 16.
Climbing to dodge large rain clouds is a standard procedure for aircraft in these conditions.
"What happens after that is a question mark," according to Indonesian-based aviation analyst Dudi Sudibyo.
An airport official checks a map of Indonesia at the crisis centre set up by local authority for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Photo: AP
Former French pilot and aviation expert Gerard Feldzer said the movement performed by the aircraft at the time it disappeared could be tricky.
"It's possible that it lacked speed," he said. "When one is not far from the maximal altitude of the plane the margin for manouevre is very limited and it can going down."
The plane's disappearance comes at the end of a disastrous year for Malaysian aviation.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March with 239 passengers and crew, and in July, MH17 was shot down over troubled Ukraine killing all 298 on board.
An electronic kiosk providing flight information shows the status for AirAsia flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore as "Ask Airline". Photo: AP
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