AirAsia Flight 8501 to Singapore missing

AirAsia Flight 8501 to Singapore missing
AirAsia flight QZ8501 missing

An AirAsia Indonesia airliner flying from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board has gone missing.

Flight QZ8501, an Airbus 320-200, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower on December 27, 2014 at 06:17 local time over the Java Sea, Indonesian Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa told media.

The plane, an Airbus A320-200, disappeared midway into the flight of more than two hours from the city of Surabaya. No distress call was made:

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