Indonesia Air Asia A320 PK-AXC MISSING! Surabaya - Singapore

[Mackenzie Davis]

Just coming in now. Was due to land in Singapore over 3 hours ago from Surabaya. Now declared as missing!

Hoping for the best outcome.

Official announcement from their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/notes/airasia/news-update-airasia-indonesia-flight-qz8501/10152667738358742

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/air-asia-flight-bound-singapore-lost-contact-air-traffic-report-2014

[Sarah C]

Air Asia have changed the colour of thier logo on the Facebook page from red to grey............sadly, I think they know the outcome is not likely to be a good one.

[Mackenzie Davis]

155 PAX, 4 Flight Attendants, 2 flight crew reported onboard

161 total

[Grahame Hutchison]

This is where PK-AXC goes from being tracked by ADS-B Receiving Station WARR-2, to having an estimated position/track (Radar T-EST1). Not sure if this just means there were no stations
tracking after this point, or this is where the ADS-B transmissions stop.

http://www.16Right.com/MessageBoard/AWQ8501-01.JPG

[Robert S]

Flightradar24 believes the timing of their loss of tracking was due to coverage in the area.

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/549062258861826048

Flightradar24 lost it at 23:12 UTC. It seems to be accepted that it went missing from an ATC perspective at 23:18 UTC.

[Greg Hyde]

RAAF dispatched an Orion to assist in search.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-29/airasia-flight-qz8501-search-to-resume/5990800

[Greg Hyde]

Indonesian authorities say items resembling an emergency slide and a plane door have been seen in the expanded search area in the Java Sea.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-30/indonesia-asks-for-us-help-to-find-airasia-qz8501-as-search-res/5992600