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AirAsia flight QZ8501

Flight QZ8501 disappeared on Sunday, December 28, 2014 after taking off from Surabaya, Indonesia, at 5.35am. Less than an hour later at 6.17am it had lost all contact with air control. The flight was carrying 162 passengers and crew. A major search mission was launched in the Java Sea near to where the plane disappeared from radar screens.

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9 September, 2024

Singaporean who lost husband, daughter in air crash on living with grief

When AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crashed into the Java Sea in 2014, all 162 people on board were killed, including Wee Mei Yi’s husband and their two-year-old daughter. She talks about overcoming grief and making a life for their son, Luca

30 Oct 2017 - 5:54PM

Indonesia ends search for remains of AirAsia crash victims

19 Mar 2015 - 7:29AM

AirAsia boss seeks to allay fears as flight aborted after malfunction

9 Feb 2015 - 5:13AM

AirAsia crash searchers may have found French co-pilot after body 'wearing uniform' is retrieved

7 Feb 2015 - 3:37PM

Remi Plesel was said to be flying the plane when it disaster struck. Photo: AFP

New | AirAsia captain 'left his seat' before fatal crash in Java Sea, say investigation sources

The captain of the AirAsia jet that crashed into the sea in December was out of his seat conducting an unorthodox procedure when his co-pilot apparently lost control.

31 Jan 2015 - 5:08PM

Update | AirAsia QZ8501 pilots cut power to airplane's 'safety' computer system before crash

The pilots had been attempting to deal with alerts about the flight augmentation computers, which control the A320's rudder and also automatically prevent it from going too slow.

31 Jan 2015 - 11:53AM

French co-pilot Remi Plesel was at controls of doomed AirAsia jet QZ8501

30 Jan 2015 - 3:19AM

Co-pilot Remi Plesel in front of an AirAsia plane. Photo: AFP

Computer glitch leading to pilot error may have caused Air Asia crash

Investigators probing the crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 are examining maintenance records of a key part of its automated control systems, and how the pilots may have handled the plane if it failed, two people familiar with the matter said.

28 Jan 2015 - 7:10PM

Navy ends AirAsia jet recovery efforts with 92 bodies still missing

The Indonesian military has called off efforts to recover the wreckage of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month, after failing to find any more bodies inside the fuselage.

28 Jan 2015 - 5:34AM

Indonesia AirAsia Extra inaugural Melbourne flight delayed indefinitely by Australian regulator

23 Jan 2015 - 10:26AM

A passenger stands in front of an AirAsia check-in machine at Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

Indonesia will not make public preliminary AirAsia crash report

Indonesian investigators may release some initial findings next week into last month’s crash of any AirAsia passenger jet that killed 162 people, but the full preliminary report will not be made public, a government official said on Wednesday.

21 Jan 2015 - 7:25PMvideocam

The recovery mission for the crashed AirAsia plane continues in Pangkalan Bun. Photo: EPA

AirAsia jet climbed too fast ‘then stalled’: investigators

An AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month with 162 people on board climbed at a faster than normal speed and then stalled, the Indonesian transport minister said on Tuesday.

20 Jan 2015 - 10:29PM

Update | Fuselage of crashed AirAsia jet ‘located in Java Sea’

A Singaporean navy ship located the main body of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month, believed to be the resting place of most of the 162 victims.

14 Jan 2015 - 10:25PM

Indonesia investigators hope black box recorders will provide quick answers to AirAsia crash

14 Jan 2015 - 8:26PM

Indonesia's head of the Military Search and Rescue Task Force Widodo (from left), deputy of the Military Search and Rescue Task Force Dwi Kurniadi and Tatang Kurniadi, head of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety committee, hold the cockpit voice recorder from AirAsia flight QZ8501 upon its arrival in Pangkalan Bun. Photo: AFP

Update | Divers retrieve cockpit voice recorder from crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501

Divers retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the wreck of the crashed AirAsia passenger jet on Tuesday, an Indonesian investigator said, in a key step towards determining the cause of the crash that killed 162 people.

13 Jan 2015 - 6:44PMvideocam

Tatang Kurniadi, the head of the National Transportation Safety Committee shows parts of the flight data recorder (right) and cockpit voice recorder at a press conference in Pangkalan Bun. Photo: AFP

Indonesia retrieves crashed AirAsia jet's flight data recorder

13 Jan 2015 - 9:22AM

AirAsia plane likely exploded before hitting water, official says

13 Jan 2015 - 1:07AM

Update | Black box from doomed AirAsia flight QZ8501 recovered from seabed

Divers have retrieved one of the black boxes from the AirAsia plane that plummeted into the Java Sea, in a major breakthrough in the slow-moving hunt to recover bodies and wreckage.

13 Jan 2015 - 9:32AMvideocam

Indonesian military police place the flight data recorder of the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 at Iskandar air base in Pangkalan Bun, Central Borneo. Photo: Xinhua

Divers spot black boxes from crashed AirAsia jet

12 Jan 2015 - 12:31AM

Big nations' aid in AirAsia search may be to boost their soft-power stance, observers say

US and Chinese warships have rushed to help Indonesia search for a crashed plane, but analysts say more than altruistic motivations are at play with world powers jostling for influence.

11 Jan 2015 - 6:08AM

Update | AirAsia black boxes 'likely detached and buried on seabed' as searchers recover plane's tail

10 Jan 2015 - 9:36PMvideocam

The tail section of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 is hoisted from the Java Sea by crane on Saturday. Photo: Xinhua

Update | Pings detected in search for AirAsia jet’s black box, says Indonesia

Indonesia search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of the missing AirAsia passenger jet flight QZ8501 detected pings in their efforts to find the black box flight recorders.

9 Jan 2015 - 7:54PM

Ping signals from the black box data recorders of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 were detected on Friday, a senior Indonesian search official said. Photo: AFP

Recovery operation to reach AirAsia wreckage continues in Indonesia

9 Jan 2015 - 8:33AM

AirAsia crash makes stronger case for using ‘ejectable, floating’ black boxes

Sources say a long-delayed proposal to outfit commercial airplanes with ejectable “black box” recorders may have a better chance of being adopted after the crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501.

9 Jan 2015 - 10:30AMvideocam

Update | First pictures of AirAsia wreckage taken after tail is found on seabed

Recovery teams have found the tail of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 in the Java Sea, as pictures of the wreckage were released - one emblazoned with the airline's logo.

7 Jan 2015 - 6:48PMvideocam

AirAsia gives financial compensation to victims' families

7 Jan 2015 - 8:56AM

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Family haunted by AirAsia victim’s last quip that she would spend birthday ‘alone at sea’

Maybe God was trying to be good to her, and didn’t want her to spend her birthday alone at sea, so he brought her back," says a grieving relative.

7 Jan 2015 - 1:56PM

Indonesian navy locates AirAsia tail section likely to contain black boxes

An Indonesian patrol vessel found what could be the tail of the missing AirAsia jet, the section where the crucial black box voice and flight data recorders are located.

6 Jan 2015 - 10:42AM

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