Another Missing Plane

Story is a few days old, but haven't seen a thread on it yet.



http://www.wsj.com/articles/search-f...ighttopstories

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JAKARTA, Indonesia—Officials said they would expand yet again the search area for a missing AirAsia jetliner, after a second day of combing the waters with an arsenal of planes and ships failed to yield signs of the airplane carrying 162 people. Officials said 30 vessels and 15 planes were deployed Monday to scour waters around Bangka Island, south of Singapore and north of the island of Borneo. The area already had been widened from the initial search area on Sunday. Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 vanished in a thicket of storm clouds en route to Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Sunday morning. It lost contact with air-traffic control less than an hour after takeoff after requesting permission to climb to a higher altitude to avoid bad weather, officials said. The head of the National Search and Rescue Agency, Bambang Soelistyo, said search and rescue teams Tuesday will also start searching the water south of Bangka Island, and widen the area of search in the western part of Borneo. No signals have yet to be detected from the plane’s emergency locator transmitters. Mr. Soelistyo, who earlier Monday said they suspect the plane was at the bottom of the sea, said Indonesia is requesting a submersible from France, the United Kingdom or the U.S. to help find the missing plane. “We have coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to borrow a submersible,” he said.

Another Missing Plane