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| Southeast Asia |
| Search halted for missing AirAsia plane as night falls |
| 2014-12-29 |
| [DAWN] Indonesia suspended until first light the search for an AirAsia plane that went missing Sunday in the Java Sea with 162 people on board after the crew requested a change of flight plan due to stormy weather. 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. Around 11 hours later, the search halted with no sign of the plane and was set to resume at 7am Monday, or even 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. |
| Posted by:Fred |