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Crash site of AirAsia Flight #QZ8501 located, no survivors expected to be found

December 31, 2014 benign0 9 Comments

Possibly no survivors was the grim prognosis as more and more information trickled in following the pinpointing of the location of the crash site of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 which went missing last Sunday, the 28th December 2014. Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported as of 8:38 p.m. that according to the most recent update from the Indonesian…

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Missing AirAsia QZ8501 plane possibly at sea bottom, US assistance sought as search continues

December 30, 2014 benign0 22 Comments

The search for AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ8501 which went missing on Sunday, the 28th December continues. By Monday, officials involved in the search have become less optimistic and “saw little reason to believe the flight met anything but a grim fate.” The search which, until the end of Monday, was focused over seven zones has…

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AirAsia #QZ8501 disappearance highlights disturbing aspects of Southeast Asian air travel industry

December 29, 2014December 29, 2014 benign0 11 Comments

Less than 24 hours into the disappearance of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 and, already, conspiracy theorists are at work reading into the minutiae of minimal information being released by official sources. That QZ8501 is the third Malaysian aircraft (after Malaysian Airlines MH370 vanished with 239 people in March and, another, MH17 carrying 298 people was shot…

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AirAsia #QZ8501 en route from Surabaya to Singapore missing along with 155 passengers

December 29, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

Air Asia Flight QZ8501 remains missing hours after it lost radio contact with Jakarta Air Traffic Control (ATC) Sunday, 28th December 2014. The aircraft, an Airbus 320-200 had 155 passengers on board. According to reports, the plane lost contact with Jakarta ATC at 6:18 a.m. Surabaya time shortly after its pilots requested a deviation from…

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