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AirAsia revises nationalities of QZ8501 passengers
AirAsia Indonesia has revised the nationalities of passengers and crew members aboard flight QZ8501, which lost contact with air traffic control while en route from Surabaya to Singapore on Sunday
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irAsia Indonesia has revised the nationalities of passengers and crew members aboard flight QZ8501, which lost contact with air traffic control while en route from Surabaya to Singapore on Sunday.
'AirAsia Indonesia would like to issue a correction on the nationality breakdown of passengers and crew aboard QZ8501 as follows: passenger nationalities are one Singaporean, one Malaysian, three South Koreans, one British and 149 Indonesians. Crew nationalities are one French and six Indonesians,' the airline said in a release made available to The Jakarta Post on Sunday.
AirAsia Flight 8501 departed from Surabaya, East Java, to Singapore at 5:36 a.m. local time on Sunday.
The acting director general of air transportation at the Transportation Ministry, Djoko Murjatmodjo, said in a press conference on Sunday that the last communication between the pilot, Capt. Irianto, and air traffic control occurred at 6:12 a.m. local time, when the pilot asked to turn left and climb to 38,000 feet to avoid clouds.
'At 6:16 a.m., QZ8501 was still seen on the flight radar screen. At 6:17 it lost contact and only its flight-plan track appeared,' said Djoko.
'The aircraft was in good condition but the weather there was not good,' he said.
It is believed that the Airbus A320-200 went missing somewhere over the Java Sea between Tanjung Pandan on Belitung island and Pontianak in West Kalimantan. (ebf)
