In the third air incident connected to Malaysia this year, an AirAsia plane with 162 people on board went missing on Sunday while flying over the Java Sea after taking off from a provincial city in Indonesia for Singapore.
The pilot of missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 made last communication with air traffic control at 6.13am (2313 GMT Saturday) and there was no distress signal from the cockpit.
The pilot had requested deviation due to weather before communication with the aircraft was lost. According to officials the pilot had "asked to avoid clouds by turning left and going higher to 34,000 feet."
The aircraft was still under the control of Indonesian Air Traffic Control at that time. Flight QZ8501 had two pilots and five cabin crew.
The captain in command of missing Airbus A320-200 had a total of 6,100 flying hours, a substantial number, and the first officer a total of 2,275 flying hours.
The contact was lost about 42 minutes after the single-aisle, twin-engine jetliner took off from Surabaya airport in Indonesia for Singapore.
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