Indonesia resumed a search for the missing plane Air Asia

The search for the missing plane Air Asia resumed at daybreak. The teams have sailed to the east of the island of Belitung, Indonesia. It is in this area that air traffic controllers lost contact with flight QZ 8501, about an hour after taking off from Surabaya airport on the island of Java. It would link Singapore in three hours.

The pilots requested a deviation from the flight path due to the weather, just before the demise of the unit.

For the families of 162 missing is anxiety.

"Our first priority now is to look after the families, and do what we can. We do not know exactly what happened to the plane. It is premature to talk about insurance. But all expenses for the relatives will be supported by Air Asia, "said Tony Fernandes, the boss of the low-cost airline.

Almost all the passengers of Indonesian nationality, but there was also aboard three South Koreans, a Briton, a Malaysian and Singaporean. One of the drivers was French.

This disappearance is reminiscent of the flight MH 370 Malaysia Airlines disappeared in the southern Indian Ocean on March 8, without a trace.