Breaking: An AirAsia flight between Surabaya, Indonesia and Singapore has lost contact with air traffic controllers.
Allegedly the flight asked for an unusual route prior to it's disappearance, and the weather has been choppy*.
Captain Pilot Iriyanto. Below the photo is message from his daughter, Angela "Come home dad. I still need daddy. Bring back my daddy. Come home dad. Daddy should be found. Daddy should come home"
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Last photo of one passenger (Gusti Made Bobi Sidharta) in front of the missing plane. Sidharta flew with his wife and two daughters.
The National Commission of Transportation Safety said that the news about the missing plane spotted on shore of East Belitung is not true.
Tomorrow Malaysian and Singapore will join in SAR operation. Australia will join soon.
The missing plane piloted by captain Iriyanto who has 6,053 flight hours, while the French co-pilot Remi Plesel has 2,247 flight hours. Captain Iriyanto was F-16 pilot in Indonesian Air Force before resigned and become civilian airplane pilot. He is known as pious Muslim and active as mosque caretaker in Masjid Nurul Yaqin near his home in Sidoarjo.
Pain and hardships allow you to grow spiritually Alhamdulilah so smile when a so called calamity befalls upon you.
Alhamdulilah Allah swt is the greatest.
I notice in the web there are many comments that relate the missing AirAsia plane with Malaysian aviation authority. But actually it is not correct.
Although the headquarter is in Malaysia, AirAsia is a multinational airway company that operated in few countries, not only in Malaysia. The missing plane is from Indonesia AirAsia that operated under Indonesian aviation regulation. The plane itself carries Indonesian flag and registered with Indonesian airplane code.
An air force officer carries a suitcase that belong to QZ8501 passenger, Dec 30 (Antara)
SAR team in Pangkal Pinang prepared body bags to be sent to evacuation commando post in Pangkalan Bun. Dec 30 (Antara)
Malang city mayor Moh Anton made dua with family of QZ8501 pasenggers, Dec 29. 24 of 155 passenger of the crashed plane were from Malang (Tempo)
Silhouette of student of Universitas Islam Syarief Hidayatullah in du'a event for QZ8501 in Dec 30 morning (Tempo)
A Navy pilot prayed while lean on CN-235 aircraft before fly for SAR operation. Pangkal Pinang, Dec 30 (Ed Wray/Getty Images)
President Joko Widodo (right) and AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandez visited family of AirAsia QZ8501 passenger in Juanda Airport, Surabaya, after SAR team found the missing plane, Dec 30 (Reuters)
Pray for AirAsia QZ8501, Batu, East Java, Dec 30 (Tribunnews)
May Allah grant them Jannah and help the families heal from this.
Bodies, debris from missing AirAsia plane pulled from sea off Indonesia
By Gayatri Suroyo and Adriana Nina Kusuma SURABAYA, Indonesia/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian rescuers searching for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people pulled bodies and wreckage from the sea off the coast of Borneo on Tuesday, prompting relatives of those on board watching TV footage to break down in tears. Indonesia AirAsia's Flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200, lost contact with air traffic control early on Sunday during bad weather on a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. The navy initially said 40 bodies had been recovered, although other media later quoted the head of the search and rescue agency, Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, as saying only three bodies had been retrieved. The plane has yet to be found. "My heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in QZ8501," airline boss Tony Fernandes tweeted. "On behalf of AirAsia, my condolences to all. Words cannot express how sorry I am."
The airline said in a statement that it was inviting family members to Surabaya, "where a dedicated team of care providers will be assigned to each family to ensure that all of their needs are met". Pictures of floating bodies were broadcast on television and relatives of the missing already gathered at a crisis center in Surabaya wept with heads in their hands. Several people collapsed in grief and were helped away. Yohannes and his wife were at the center awaiting news of her brother, Herumanto Tanus, and two of his children who were on board the doomed flight. The Tanus family had been on their way to visit Herumanto's son, who studies in Singapore and who traveled to Surabaya on Monday after the plane went missing. "He cries every time he watches the news," Yohannes said. The mayor of Surabaya, Tri Rismaharini, comforted relatives and urged them to be strong. "They are not ours, they belong to God," she said. SEARCHING THROUGH THE NIGHT A navy spokesman said a plane door, oxygen tanks and one body had been recovered and taken away by helicopter for tests. "The challenge is waves up to three metres high," Soelistyo told reporters, adding that the search operation would go on all night. He declined to answer questions on whether any survivors had been found. About 30 ships and 21 aircraft from Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and the United States have been involved in the search. The plane, which did not issue a distress signal, disappeared after its pilot failed to get permission to fly higher to avoid bad weather because of heavy air traffic, officials said. It was traveling at 32,000 feet (9,753 metres) and had asked to fly at 38,000 feet, officials said earlier. Pilots and aviation experts said thunderstorms, and requests to gain altitude to avoid them, were not unusual in that area.
The Indonesian pilot was experienced and the plane last underwent maintenance in mid-November, the airline said. Online discussion among pilots has centered on unconfirmed secondary radar data from Malaysia that suggested the aircraft was climbing at a speed of 353 knots, about 100 knots too slow, and that it might have stalled. Investigators are focusing initially on whether the crew took too long to request permission to climb, or could have ascended on their own initiative earlier, said a source close to the probe, adding that poor weather could have played a part as well. He cautioned that the investigation was at an early stage and the black box flight recorders had yet to be recovered. CLUES WHEN THINGS GO WRONG The plane, whose engines were made by CFM International, co-owned by General Electric and Safran of France, lacked real-time engine diagnostics or monitoring, a GE spokesman said. Such systems are mainly used on long-haul flights and can provide clues to airlines and investigators when things go wrong. Three airline disasters involving Malaysian-affiliated carriers in less than a year have dented confidence in the country's aviation industry and spooked travelers across the region. Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on March 8 on a trip from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board and has not been found. On July 17, the same airline's Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Bizarrely, an AirAsia plane from Manila skidded off and overshot the runway on landing at Kalibo in the central Philippines on Tuesday. No one was hurt. On board Flight QZ8501 were 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans, and one person each from Singapore, Malaysia and Britain. The co-pilot was French. U.S. law enforcement and security officials said passenger and crew lists were being examined but nothing significant had turned up and the incident was regarded as an unexplained accident.
Im actually watching the news right now and today they said that fragments of the plane have been found in the ocean they also found luggage but i dont think they have recovered all the bodies yet
Ill make dua for the healing of the families, and inshallah there are survivors somewhere that will be rescued soon.
Im actually watching the news right now and today they said that fragments of the plane have been found in the ocean they also found luggage but i dont think they have recovered all the bodies yet
Ill make dua for the healing of the families, and inshallah there are survivors somewhere that will be rescued soon.
Sonar in KRI Bung Tomo already detect large object on the seabed at a depth of about 24 meters, on Tuesday night, Dec 30. But the diving unit could not perform the task today because the weather was very bad.
Just a few bodies that have been evacuated to Pangkalan Bun. Two bodies have even flown and arrived in Surabaya. But bad weather became a barrier to the evacuation of other bodies.
Tomorrow, if the weather is good enough diving unit will start dive.
This is such sad news, subhanAllah. May Allaah have mercy upon all those who have lost their lives, grant them an easy reckoning on the Day of Judgement, raise their ranks in Jannah and grant sabr and strength to all of their families, Aameen.
The crews of KRI Banda Aceh prayed in front of the bodies of two victims were identified as Kevin Alexander and Hayati Lutfiah.
The arrival of the two bodies of victims at Juanda airport.
The body of Hayati Lutifiah handed over to families in Bhayangkara hospital, Surabaya. Second from right is Lutfiah's mother, and third from right is Surabaya city mayor, Tri Rismaharini. Lutfiah flew with her husband and two children who until now have not been found.
Security guard of St. Albert Catholic Malang putting up posters and a names list of the students and alumnae who became victims of AirAsia QZ8501 accident. St Albert Catholic Schools lost nine students and alumnae in this accident, one of them is Kevin Alexander.
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Photos uploaded by Khairunnisa Haidar Fauzi, AirAsia QZ8501 flight attendant on 17 December 2014 in her Instagram account. QZ8501 itself lost when requesting permission to ride from a height of 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet.
Last profile seen on Khairunnisa's Blackberry, showing aircraft wing over the sea. Her family and friends claimed it was out of her character. Khairunnisa body has been found. See identified through name tag on her uniform also her ring and watch.
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Im actually watching the news right now and today they said that fragments of the plane have been found in the ocean
have mercy upon all those who have lost their lives, grant them an easy reckoning on the Day of Judgement, raise their ranks in Jannah and grant sabr and strength to all of their families, Aameen.
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