AirAsia suspended from flying
Yahoo7 and Agencies
January 4, 2015, 9:50 am
Indonesia pledged to investigate flight violations by AirAsia, as search teams found four large parts of the airline's plane that crashed into the sea last weekend with 162 people on board.
The country's transport ministry said the ill-fated aircraft had been flying on an unauthorised schedule when it crashed, and the airline has now been suspended from flying the route from the city of Surabaya to Singapore.
Indonesia pledges AirAsia probe as plane parts found
"It violated the route permit given, the schedule given, that's the problem," director general of air transport, Djoko Murjatmodjo, told AFP.
"We will carry out an audit or an evaluation on all airlines in Indonesia over whether there are any violations related to route, time and schedule," he said.
Meanwhile, Indonesian officials say they are confident wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501 has been located after sonar equipment detected four massive objects on the ocean floor.
The biggest piece, measuring 18 metres long and 5.4 metres wide, appeared to be part of the jet's body, said Henry Bambang Soelistyo, chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency.
Though strong currents and big surf have prevented divers from entering waters to see the suspected fuselage, officials are hopeful the remaining bodies and the black box recorders, crucial to determining the cause of the crash, would soon be located.
So far, after nearly a week of searching, only 30 bodies have been found floating in the choppy waters.
The Airbus A320 crashed on December 28, halfway into a two-hour flight from Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, to Singapore.
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Minutes before losing contact, the pilot told air traffic control that he was approaching threatening clouds, but was denied permission to climb to a higher altitude because of heavy air traffic.
It remains unclear what caused the plane to plunge into the Java Sea, though bad weather appears to have been a factor, according to a 14-page report released by Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency.
"Flight 8501 appears to have been trapped in bad weather that would have been difficult to avoid," the report said.
While the plane's black boxes - the flight data and cockpit voice recorders - have yet to be located, the discovery of the wreckage, especially if it is largely intact, would greatly benefit the investigation.
The objects on the seafloor were discovered on Friday and Saturday, and an Indonesian Geological Survey vessel was used to assess their dimensions, Soelistyo said.
In addition to what appeared to be a significant part of the plane's body, chunks of debris found in the target search area measured up to 12 metres long.
Other suspected plane parts were seen scattered on beaches during an aerial survey, Soelistyo said.
Indonesian authorities announced the grounding of AirAsia flights from Surabaya to Singapore, with the Transport Ministry saying the airline did not have a permit to fly on Sundays.
But Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority said on Saturday that from its end, the airline had been approved to fly the route daily.
AirAsia, which began operations in 2001 and quickly became one of the region's most popular low-cost carriers, said it was reviewing the suspension. The crash was the airline's first.
Vessels involved in the search for debris included at least eight sophisticated navy ships from Singapore, Russia, Malaysia and the US equipped with sonars for scouring the seabed to pinpoint the all-important black boxes and the wreckage.
The hope, officials say, is that the body of the plane will still be largely intact, speeding the investigation.
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