Another Missing Asian Plane: Search launched for missing AirAsia jet bound for Singapore from Indonesia (update: plane found)

What is it with all these Asian plane tragedies? This is the third one in less than a year. What's that smell? This stinks on ice!

Malaysia Flight 370
Malaysia Flight 17
and now AirAsia QZ8501

OK class, please pay close attention. Lay your pencils down and quickly remove your tinfoil hats from your desks and fit them snugly onto your heads.



http://news.yahoo.com/contact-with-airasia-flight-qz8501-bound-for-singapore-from-surabaya-lost-033803688.html

Quote :

Air Asia aircraft model 9M-AQB is seen on track at Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) airport at Sepang outside Kuala Lumpur November 19, 2013. Malaysia's AirAsia Bhd will take up to two years to realise a profit from its Indonesia and Philippine units, income that would help prop up eroding margins as Asia's largest budget carrier wages a price war at home. AirAsia, which has dominated budget air travel in Asia with explosive growth, is now struggling to boost earnings in its biggest market, Malaysia, where rivals such as national carrier Malaysian Airline System (MAS) and Malindo Airways are slashing fares. REUTERS/Samsul Said (MALAYSIA - Tags: BUSINESS TRANSPORT)
Indonesia air traffic control lost contact with AirAsia flight QZ8501 bound for Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Sunday morning.

Search and rescue operations have begun, AirAsia Indonesia said on its Facebook page. 
The carrier also released a statement listing 162 people on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and one infant along with two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer.
The nationalities of the passengers and crew onboard include one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one French, three South Koreans and 156 Indonesians.
The aircraft lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control at 7:24am local time, 42 minutes after departure and an hour before it was scheduled to land in Singapore.
QZ 8501 was between the Indonesian port of Tanjung Pandan and the town of Pontianak, in West Kalimantan on Borneo island, when it went missing, Reuters reports.
The plane was on the submitted flight plan route and was flying at 32,000 feet before it asked to fly at 38,000 feet to avoid clouds.

Last known location of Air Asia flight QZ8501, which went missing on December 28, 2014.

The captain in command had a total of 6,100 flying hours and the first officer a total of 2,275 flying hours, said AirAsia, adding that the jet underwent its last scheduled maintenance on 16 November 2014.
The Singapore air force and navy have offered help to Indonesia authorities and have put two C130s on standby.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has also commented on the situation on both Facebook and Twitter.

Quote :

Saddened to hear of missing flight #QZ8501. My thoughts are with the passengers and their families. - LHL
— Lee Hsien Loong (@leehsienloong) December 28, 2014

AirAsia has established an Emergency Call Centre that is available for family or friends of those who may have been on board the aircraft. The number is: +622129850801.
AirAsia will release further information as soon as it becomes available. Updated information will also be posted on the AirAsia website, www.airasia.com.
Changi Airport has also set up a Relatives’ Holding Area (RHA) at Terminal 2 Arrival Hall  to provide assistance to next-of-kin (NOK) of passengers onboard the flight.
(Correction: This article initially identified the aircraft as an A380. It is an A320.)

http://sputniknews.com/asia/20141228/1016326011.html

Asia & Pacific
12:32 28.12.2014(updated 19:55 28.12.2014)
Topic:
AirAsia Plane With 162 on Board Goes Missing Over Pacific (10)
735553
A relative of a missing passenger has reportedly received a text message from an unknown sender, stating that the plane made an emergency landing and all passengers are alive. The Indonesian Transportation Ministry is examining these claims.

I've found that sputnik news site to be dodgy at best, and purveyors of disinformation at worse in the past, Spring. Since your posting I haven't been able to vet this "rumor" and there are no other news sites reporting it. I would advise caution with the sputnik site. 

spring2 wrote:

http://sputniknews.com/asia/20141228/1016326011.html

Asia & Pacific
12:32 28.12.2014(updated 19:55 28.12.2014)
Topic:
AirAsia Plane With 162 on Board Goes Missing Over Pacific (10)
735553
A relative of a missing passenger has reportedly received a text message from an unknown sender, stating that the plane made an emergency landing and all passengers are alive. The Indonesian Transportation Ministry is examining these claims.

Thanks!!

Though I think that Pastor Begley goes "over the top" sometimes I am in complete agreement with his assertions on this video. It's worth the 1½ minutes it takes to watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEHXD10Yl4c

http://news.yahoo.com/indonesia-bodies-found-near-where-082730727.html

Quote :

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — Family members of those aboard AirAsia Flight 8501 collapsed in agony Tuesday as images of debris and a bloated body flashed across Indonesian television screens, proof that the plane crashed into the sea two days earlier with 162 people on board.

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Another ritual.


"AirAsia flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control at 7:24 a.m"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2014/12/27/airasia-flight-disappears-on-flight-from-indonesia-to-singapore/

8501-724=7777


"155 passengers and 7 crew on board"
155x7=1085 (8501 anagram)

"144 adults, 17 children and one infant"
"162 on board"

162x777.7777777777777...
=126000

126/7.7777777777777...
=16.2 (approximation of Phi to 3 decimal places)

(Plane was an Airbus A320-216)(6x6x6=216)

144x777.7777777777777...
=112000

144000/162
=888.8888888888888888...

12/27/2014 is 539 days since 777 Asiana flight 214 crashed in SF on 7/6/2013. 539 = 7x77

12/27/2014 is 77years 7months since the opening of Golden Gate Bridge
5/27/1937

3/7-12/27(UT)=295(214), 9m 20d (911)

Surubaya to Kuala Lumpur = 911 nm