The search for the 162 people on board disappeared in a storm area airliner AirAsia has continued after an overnight break. A spokesman for the Indonesian Air Force said it was an oil slick was sighted. “We check whether it is aviation fuel.” The oil gauge is located in the search area where the machine crashed after previous assumptions on Sunday, about 100 nautical miles off the island of Belitung. In addition, an Australian aircraft in the region have a signal collected, but had been found at the site of nothing.
In a floating in the water object that had been spotted by Australian rescue teams, it was not a part of the aircraft, such as the Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Jalla announced.
Twelve ships, five aircraft and three helicopters in action
On board the Airbus A320, which was traveling from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, mainly Indonesians and three South Koreans, a Singaporean, Malaysian were a , a Frenchman and a Briton. The search focused on the sea area near the island of Belitung south of Borneo, about half route between Surabaya and Singapore.
The Indonesian military announced twelve naval ships, five aircraft and three helicopters were together with ships and aircraft from Singapore and Malaysia participated in the search. The US wants to assist in the search. The French government sent two aviation security experts, the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus two technical advisors. The Chinese government wants to send planes and ships to untertützen the rescue, said the Foreign Ministry in Beijing.
Wreck possibly lying on the seabed
” We assume that the machine is located on the sea floor, “said the head of the Indonesian search and rescue authority, Bambang Sulistyob, at a press conference. Of these, it must be concluded on the basis of the available coordinates. “If this is true, it will be difficult to locate them, because our equipment is not sufficient.”
The pilots had apparently not even have time to make an emergency call. So far, still no signal of the black box was discovered long after a crash sends positioning signals up to four weeks. In Singapore and at the departure airport in Surabaya continue to wait desperate relatives of the passengers to messages from the machine.
parallels to flight MH370
On the 2014 seems to Malaysia Airlines to be a curse. The longer the intensive search is unsuccessful, the more memories of the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 be awakened on 8 March. The wreckage of the Boeing 777, which was launched in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur is suspected in up to 6000 meters depth on the jagged bottom of the Indian Ocean. On July 17, three months after the traceless disappearance of MH370, Malaysia Airlines, flight MH 17 shot down on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur via the Eastern Ukraine. 298 people on board were killed. The presumed crash QZ8501 is therefore already the third flight disaster for Malaysia within a few months
AirAsia. Boarding with good rating
declared European aircraft manufacturer Airbus, the missing Airbus A320 was delivered to AirAsia in October 2008, and have since been completed at about 13,600 flights around 23,000 flight hours. According AirAsia twin-engine aircraft was last serviced in mid-November.
A part of the air fleet of A320 AirAsia on the ground
AirAsia the Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, who brought the Withered company after the acquisition in 2001 to compete fiercely course. The airline currently dominates the booming low cost market in Southeast Asia. AirAsia was previously on account of their impeccable safety record. She has won multiple awards as the best low cost airline in the world.
qu / ml (rtr, afp, dpa, AP)
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