AirAsia plane with 162 on board missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore

Why didn't this story conclude with the following from the USA media? "The airline said that search and rescue operations were underway. "

I always dread reading stories like this.

Wonder if some terrorist organization has a grudge with Malaysia. Third plane this year that that country has lost.

Bad year for Malaysian airliners.

Bad year? This is over the top devastating! Three planes in one year, and one of them they don't even know where it went. This is getting spooky!

This is just sad, sad all around, I pray nothing bad happened to the plane and if something did, they at least find survivors. This is something that country doesn't need right now, 3 in one year is way too much.

Hope that this is just a giant glitch.........May all those folks make it home.......

I can't understand how these planes just go missing. With all the technology they have at their disposale today wouldn't they be able to send out an SOS automatically even at the last moment. Maybe they do know but won't announce until they are 100% sure - in which case it's bad news. Very sad indeed.

OMG Malaysia airlines again....what the heck wrong with it!!

Ryokawa:

It is Air Asia, not Malaysian Air.

@Willi

True, but it's still Malaysia. Horrible coincidence.

@noriyosan73DEC. 28, 2014 - 01:26PM JST Why didn't this story conclude with the following from the USA media?

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US media has been reporting this news since it happneed. Don't you mean 'the following from the Malayasia Media"?

There is a systematic failure happening here. With different airlines involved and different aircraft makers, so that puts the likely mistakes at either lacking government oversight, communication, or poor maintenance.

I've flown in the region during the last year - wasn't impressed by the lack of security on the aircraft I was on. The cockpit didn't have locks, the hatch to the avionics bay wasn't locked, things like that ... of course the stewardesses were highly attractive - yum. PBS NOVA http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/why-planes-vanish.html did a detailed exploration of the missing airline last fall. They believe someone in the cockpit disabled all the communications devices, headed towards the antarctic, ran out of fuel, and crashed into the empty sea. There is a way to track time differences (reverse GPS) in the satellite uplink equipment onboard - seems it "pings" hourly as a check, even if disabled by the crew.

Anyway, I have been planning an Asian trip in the next few months. Think I'll stay way from SE Asia for now.

@noriyosan: US Media is getting info from their Indonesian bureaus that get info from area media. This fkight 85p1 was en route to Singapore, CNN and shows picture map of area. his is second missing plane mysteries in Asia.

I remember reading just a few hours ago a Lion Air airliner flying almost the same route before the AirAsia plane loss was forced to return because the thunderstorms made safe flying nearly impossible. That tells me (in my opinion) the AirAsia A320 flew into some really bad thunderstorms and due to the very violent weather inside such thunderstorms, may have lost control and crashed similar to what happened to Air France Flight 447 some years ago.

True, but it's still Malaysia. Horrible coincidence.

Operated by Air Asia Indonesia which is essentially it's own company. This has nothing to do with Malaysia except the name.

Let's hope all 162 survivors will be rescued.