The flight went well QZ 8501 crashed into the Java Sea. Indonesian authorities confirmed Tuesday. The unit of the Indonesian AirAsia which provided the link between Surabaya, Indonesia, and Singapore, had disappeared from radar Sunday with 162 people on board.
More than 40 bodies were recovered before nightfall 160 km southwest of the island of Borneo. Intact body without life jacket, suggesting that everything went very quickly. A shadow that could be the fuselage of the A320-200 was also found during a survey of the crash zone. The sea is not very deep - between 25 and 30 meters, which will allow the intervention of divers. The body, but also all the floating objects will be gathered in Pangalan Bun, on the island of Borneo, where the nearest airstrip is located.
Contact with AirAsia Airbus was lost Sunday morning when the captain had to ask permission to change its flight plan to gain altitude due to bad weather. According to the Indonesian Ministry of Transport, the air traffic control would have prohibited it.
At this stage, the causes of the crash of flight QZ 8501 remain unknown. We'll have to wait to have recovered the black box to find out more. According airline pilots, based on radar data obtained from Malaysia, the aircraft could have been on an upward trajectory with insufficient speed, which would have stalled.
For the relatives of the victims gathered in Surabaya, the images of the victims floating on the waves have the effect of a shock. Several took discovering the discomfort. The authorities have started to collect DNA samples on families of missing persons to identify the bodies. Indonesian President Joko Widodo went with them to their convey his condolences. He welcomed the international mobilization has identified the wreck.
162 people were on board at takeoff, seven crew members, including 16 children and an infant. Among them: 156 Indonesians, 3 South Koreans, 1 Singaporean, Malaysian and 1 French 1 - co-pilot.
In thirteen years of activity, AirAsia had never had an accident. The missing plane had undergone maintenance operations on November 16 dernier.Cette disaster grows again aerospace specialists to call for tracking aircraft in real time by satellite and the automatic transmission of data theft.
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