Ships and planes resume hunt for AirAsia Flight 8501
Posted on: 29/Dec/2014 11:42:41 AM
Ships and planes resume hunt for AirAsia Flight 8501, which vanished from radar over Java Sea about 42 minutes after takeoff.
The search resumed Monday for a commercial airliner with 162 people on board that lost contact with ground controllers off the coast of Borneo, an effort that evoked a distressingly familiar mix of grief and mystery nine months after a Malaysia Airlines jetliner disappeared over the Indian Ocean.
This plane, too, had Malaysian connections: The Airbus A320-200 which was reported missing Sunday was operated by the Indonesian affiliate of AirAsia, a regional budget carrier based in Malaysia.
By midmorning on today, Indonesian authorities said they had found no sign of the wreckage.
The weather along the path of Flight 8501 to Singapore on Sunday was cloudy, and a weather monitoring service based in the United States reported a number of lightning strikes along the way. But the monsoon conditions did not seem insurmountable for a modern airliner.
