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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