Passenger List of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 from Indonesia to Singapore has been released. Air Asia flight routed Indonesia to Singapore went missing as it lost contact with Air Trafficcontrol at 23:24 GMT. Flight QZ8501 lost contact midair with air traffic control at 07:24 local time. This is third incident during 2014 as Flight MH370 also disappeared with 239 passengers and crew while MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in July killing 298 people on board.
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Update 11:59 p.m. EST:
Singapore has dispatched its navy and air force in a search and rescue operation for AirAsia Flight QZ8501. Officials now say weather could have been a factor in the flight’s disappearance, the Indonesian news agency Antara reported. A 10-year-old girl is one of 16 children aboard, Transport Ministry spokesman J.A. Barata told Agence France-Presse.
“The weather was not good — it was bad — at the estimated location the plane lost contact. We just received a weather report from the national meteorological, geophysics and climatology agency,” Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa said, Arabic news station Al-Haribita reported.
