Five days after Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 disappeared from radar over the Java Sea, and three days after the first confirmed débris from the Airbus A320 was located, the recovery effort is being hampered by moderate gales and rough seas. With numerous maritime and airborne elements involved in the recovery, precise numbers of bodies located, retrieved and
Recovery operations for Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 are continuing Wednesday morning in the Java Sea, some ten kilometres from the aircraft’s last reported position at 3°22’14.9″S 109°41’28.0”E and 160km southwest of the town of Pangkalan Bun in Central Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo. The flight, which departed Surabaya for Singapore at 0527 local time on Sunday, was lost
Authorities have confirmed that Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 crashed approximately 190km from Pangkalan Bun on the island of Borneo, some 10km from the Airbus A320’s last known position. “AirAsia Indonesia regrets to inform that The National Search and Rescue Agency Republic of Indonesia (BASARNAS) today confirmed that the debris found earlier today is indeed from QZ8501, the
UPDATED 10.40 29/12/14 AEDST (Additional reporting by John Walton – @thatjohn) An Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320 disappeared from radar over the Java Sea whilst operating flight QZ8501 from Surabaya on the eastern end of Java to Singapore on Sunday morning. As of Monday morning, 24 hours after contact was lost with the aircraft, no announcement
After 927,000 flights carrying nearly 168 million passengers in a 29-year career, Qantas has retired the Boeing 767 from passenger service. The final 767 passenger revenue flight was the appropriately numbered QF767 (re-numbered from QF452 – QF767 normally operates from Brisbane to Perth). Operated by VH-OGL, the flight departed Melbourne at 17:29 on Saturday afternoon and
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has announced plans to double its frequency of flights to Melbourne from daily to double-daily from August 2015. The new flights will be operated by 328-seat, three-class Boeing 777-300ERs and represent a 4,500 seats per week capacity increase on the route. “Significantly, we will be the only airline offering double daily
