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AirAsia Flight QZ8501 carrying 162 people from Indonesia to Singapore went missing Sunday after the pilots requested to change course due to bad weather, the airline said.

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 AirAsia QZ8501 Plane Missing
"AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 (Surabaya LT) this morning," AirAsia said in a statement.

"The aircraft was on the submitted flight plan route and was requesting deviation due to en-route weather before communication with the aircraft was lost while it was still under the control of the Indonesian Air Traffic Control," it added.

The six-year-old aircraft, an Airbus A320-200, left Juanda International Airport in Surabaya at 05:35 in the morning (local time) and was due to land at Singapore's Changi Airport at around 8:30 am Singapore time.

A total of 155 passengers were on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant. The crew included 2 pilots, 4 flight attendants and 1 engineer.

The nationalities of the passengers and crew are as follows: 1 Singaporean, 1 Malaysian, 1 British, 1 French, 3 South Koreans and 156 Indonesians.

Search and rescue operations are now being conducted under the guidance of The Indonesia of Civil Aviation Authority.

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