Many resources are put into the search for the missing plane from AirAsia, but the Indonesian rescue leader acknowledges that there probably have sunk into the sea.
– Based on the coordinates we have received, and calculations of how the accident site is located, we work on the basis of a hypothesis that the plane is on the ocean floor, said the head of the national search and rescue Indonesian, Bambang Soelistyo, during a press conference on Monday night Norwegian time, according to the AFP news agency.
RESCUE EDITORIAL: Bambang Soelistyo.
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Over a day has passed since AirAsia flight QZ8501 disappeared from the radar of Java Sea on way from Indonesia’s second largest city Surabaya to Singapore.
162 people – 155 passengers and seven crew members, most Indonesian citizens – was supposedly on board when they lost contact with the cockpit clock 00.24 Norwegian time .
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Extensive exploration action
Admiral Sigit Setiayana at airforce base in Surabaya says AP news agency that 12 naval vessels, five aircraft, three helicopters and warships participating in the search. Moreover, the Indonesian government assistance both in the air and on the sea from Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea.
According to the Wall Street Journal should also be sought after the plane land at the island of Borneo, as well as in the waters north of the largest exploration area.
In addition has the Australian Air Force also sent a AP-3C Orion surveillance aircraft to spot.
US and China also offered to assist in the extensive exploration campaign.
– Thinking of the relatives
VISIBLE CEO: AirAsia Tony Fernandes top has made himself available and visible both physically and through social media after QZ8501 disappeared over Java Sea.
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The disappearance have sent AirAsia share sharply on Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in the morning hours Monday but CEO Tony Fernandes has bigger concerns to deal with.
The prolific businessman held yesterday evening a press conference in Surabaya before the trip proceeded to the Indonesian capital Jakarta, to assist in the coordination of our exploration campaign. Now he is on his way back to Surabaya, where AirAsia has established a kin center, which they did in Singapore, QZ8501s destination.
– Remain positive and try to be strong . My heart bleeds for all the relatives of my crew and our passengers. Nothing is more important for us, writes Fernandes on Twitter.
Bad weather
It was bad weather in the area vanishing point and the crew should have asked to change cruising altitude of 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet. This was denied by the air traffic controllers due to other air traffic in the area.
Around five minutes later was not AirAsia aircraft of type Airbus A320-200 longer looking at the radar.
After searching by plane in difficult conditions in poor visibility and wave heights of almost three meters, was set search when darkness fell. At dawn – around midnight Norwegian time – was the search resumed, but the emergency management team is therefore pessimistic.
Routine
Søks- and rescue leader Soelistyo says Indonesia lacks the necessary tools to possibly bring up the plane from the water, but that one has asked for help from outside.
– Due to lack of technology, I have coordinated with the Foreign Minister so that we could borrow the necessary equipment from countries that have offered to help. This is initially Britain, France and the United States, he said.
In a press release Monday night, underlines AirAsia that it was an experienced duo who sat behind the controls in the cockpit. The captain was listed with a 20,537 flight hours, of which 6100 of them at AirAsia Indonesia on the same aircraft type. First officer had on his side in 2275 flying hours in the company.
The six year old aircraft, which have now disappeared, underwent last scheduled service on November 16 this year and has carried around 13,600 flights.
Multiple plane crash
– We will assist as best we can within the wreck is found. This is no mystery as MH370-disappearance, nor an atrocity that MH17, said Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, according to the BBC, referring to the other two tragedies that have struck a Malaysian airlines during 2014.
For eight months since disappeared Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 from radar somewhere over the Indian Ocean, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
The plane, a Boeing 777, disappeared trace just after midnight on March 8 and disappearance has since been a mystery.
In July, another plane from the same company shot down over Ukraine. All the 298 people on board, of whom two-thirds were from the Netherlands, was killed.
Western countries believe it was prorussiske insurgents shot down the plane, while the authorities in Russia have argued that the plane was hit by a rocket fired from a Ukrainian fighters.
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