There was grief across the globe on Sunday as
two separate disasters in Indonesia and Greece
put the lives of 562 air and sea passengers at
high risk.
The first disaster was the disappearance of a Singapore-bound AirAsia commercial jet carrying 162 people from the radar in Surabaya, Indonesia. Just as the news spread, a ferry carrying nearly 500 people caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu in Greece.
The AirAsia plane disappearance comes nearly 10 months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, dropped off radar over Southeast Asia with 239 people on board. The AirAsia Flight QZ8501 was said to have flown at 38,000 feet over the Java Sea between the islands of Belitung and Borneo — a heavily traveled shipping channel with shallow waters when it lost contact with the radar.
The search operation for the missing jet was halted last night but would resume at about 7am on Monday depending on weather condition, the Indonesian Transportation Ministry said.
The UK Guardian, said in its report on Sunday that before communication was lost, the pilot, an Indonesian named Iriyanto, contacted air traffic control in Jakarta and requested to rise to 38,000ft to avoid a storm cloud.
At 11.41am, the management of the airline posted a statement to its Facebook page, saying, “AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07.24hrs this(Sunday) morning. “At the present time, we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and crew members on board, but we will keep all parties informed as more information becomes available.”
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The first disaster was the disappearance of a Singapore-bound AirAsia commercial jet carrying 162 people from the radar in Surabaya, Indonesia. Just as the news spread, a ferry carrying nearly 500 people caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu in Greece.
The AirAsia plane disappearance comes nearly 10 months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, dropped off radar over Southeast Asia with 239 people on board. The AirAsia Flight QZ8501 was said to have flown at 38,000 feet over the Java Sea between the islands of Belitung and Borneo — a heavily traveled shipping channel with shallow waters when it lost contact with the radar.
The search operation for the missing jet was halted last night but would resume at about 7am on Monday depending on weather condition, the Indonesian Transportation Ministry said.
The UK Guardian, said in its report on Sunday that before communication was lost, the pilot, an Indonesian named Iriyanto, contacted air traffic control in Jakarta and requested to rise to 38,000ft to avoid a storm cloud.
At 11.41am, the management of the airline posted a statement to its Facebook page, saying, “AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07.24hrs this(Sunday) morning. “At the present time, we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and crew members on board, but we will keep all parties informed as more information becomes available.”
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