Air Asia flight with the registration number PK-AXC bound for Singapore
from Indonesia lost contact with air traffic control after flying through bad weather.
The last communication between the pilot and air traffic control was around 6:17am
when he requested to increase his altitude due to bad weather.The flight was scheduled
to take two hours and ten minutes, and the plane lost contact 42 minutes into the flight time.
The airline confirmed there were 155 passengers on board - including 138 adults, 16 children
and 1 infant, and have also stated there were two pilots, four flight attendants and one
engineer
Nationalities of passengers and crew on-board are one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one French, one British, three South Koreans and 155 Indonesians.
However, the British Foreign Office confirmed today that a British national was on board the flight.
Source:dailymail
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