Crash: Indonesia Asia A320 over Java Sea on Dec 28th 2014, aircraft went missing believed to have impacted waters
An Indonesia Air Asia Airbus A320-200, registration PK-AXC performing flight QZ-8501 from Surabaya (Indonesia) to Singapore (Singapore) with 155 passengers and 7 crew, was enroute at FL320 over the Java Sea about 120nm eastsoutheast of Pulau Belitung Island at about 06:16L (23:16Z Dec 27th) when radar and radio contact was lost with the aircraft while it was deviating around weather.
A search for the aircraft is underway, the aircraft is believed to have impacted water about 80nm before the island of Pulau Belitung.
The airline confirmed that radar and radio contact was lost at 07:24L (00:24Z). An emergency hotline has been established for relatives of passengers on the flight. The aircraft carried 155 passengers (including one infant and 16 children), 2 pilots, 4 cabin crew and one engineer. The captain had 6,100 hours total experience, the first officer 2,275 hours of total flying experience. 156 occupants were Indonesian citizens, 3 South Korean, 1 Malaysian, 1 French and 1 Singaporean citizen.
Indonesia's Ministry of Transport said last radio contact with the aircraft occurred at 06:16L (23:16Z). The crew requested to climb and deviate to fly around cloud. The captain of the flight had 6,100 hours of flying experience. The aircraft has last undergone maintenance on Nov 16th 2014.
Indonesia's Ministry of Transport also published the load sheet and passenger manifest on their website. According to the load sheet the aircraft carried 158 passengers and 6 crew, according to the passenger manifest 155 passengers (manifest counts/lists 154 names plus one infant). The aircraft departed with a takeoff weight of 63,624kg (MTOW 70,796kg), thereof 8,296kg of fuel.
Indonesia's Search And Rescue Services were briefed that the aircraft contacted Jakarta Center at 06:12L (23:12Z) while enroute at FL320 and requested to deviate left of airway M635 and to climb to FL380. At 06:16L the aircraft was observed normally, radio contact occurred. At 06:17L radio contact was lost, the transponder (ADS-B) remained available however, at 06:18L the transponder was lost as well, the last recorded position was S3.3708 E109.6911 (about 110nm eastsoutheast of Pulau Belitung). 50 minutes later INCERFA (aircraft position uncertain alert), 70 minutes later ALERTFA (emergency alert) and 98 minutes later DETRESFA (distress alert) was declared by ATC.
A radar screenshot leaked from AirNav Indonesia shows the aircraft had turned left off the airway and was climbing through FL363, the speed over ground had decayed to 353 knots however.
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