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backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts)
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 05:08 AM Apr 2015

AirAsia Plane Missing After Takeoff From Indonesia

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Source: npr

Search operations have been suspended for the night for an AirAsia plane with 162 aboard that lost contact with air traffic control after takeoff from Indonesia on a flight to Singapore, the Singapore Civil Aviation Authority reports.

The plane, en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, lost contact about an hour before it was due to arrive in Singapore. It was scheduled to land at 8:30 a.m. Singapore time (7:30 p.m. ET Saturday), Hadi Mustofa, an official with the Indonesian air ministry, said on Indonesia's MetroTV.

The plane, flight QZ8501 from Surabaya, Indonesia, was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/27/373528462/airasia-plane-missing-after-takeoff-from-indonesia

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AirAsia Plane Missing After Takeoff From Indonesia (Original Post) backwoodsbob Apr 2015 OP
December? postulater Apr 2015 #1
The blog youre citing is from December 2014 darkangel218 Apr 2015 #2

postulater

(5,075 posts)
1. December?
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 05:13 AM
Apr 2015
 

darkangel218

(13,985 posts)
2. The blog youre citing is from December 2014
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 05:19 AM
Apr 2015

Why are you posting this in LBN?

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