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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

With the much-anticipated delivery of its first A350-900 to launch airline Qatar Airways, Airbus has delivered the last new-build airliner type currently on its radar, with the formal handover of MSN6, A7-ALA, in Toulouse on Monday. “It’s a great day for everybody who loves commercial aviation,” Airbus CEO Fabrice Bregier said. Together with the slightly smaller Boeing

The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is to send three F-16Cs of its Black Knights formation aerobatic display team to the Avalon Airshow. In the team’s Australian International Airshow debut, the Black Knights “will perform an exciting and highly memorable display”, the airshow organisers said on Monday, without providing further detail. It is expected