Pesawat Air Asia QZ 8501 Surabaya-Singapura Dilaporkan Hilang
An AirAsia flight traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore has gone missing. The Indonesia Transport Ministry is reporting that the flight, QZ 8501, lost contact with air traffic control at 6:17 a.m. local time, according to Reuters. Hadi Mustofa, an official with the ministry, noted the plane requested to take an unusual path before contact was lost. AirAsia confirmed the unusual path was requested "due to enroute weather." There are 162 passengers on the flight, including two pilots, four flight attendants, one engineer, sixteen children and one infant. The captain had 6,100 flying hours and the first officer 2,275 hours. AirAsia created an emergency call center for friends and family members of those on board the flight. The majority of the passengers are Indonesian, along with three Koreans, one Singaporean, one Briton and one Malaysian. The aircraft is an Airbus A320-200, and is just over six years old. "We have been informed of an even