AirAsia boss Tony
Fernandes says he is "devastated" that a plane carrying 162 people from
Indonesia to Singapore has gone missing.
AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200,
disappeared over the Java Sea an hour into its flight at 06:24 local
time (23:24 GMT Saturday).Bad weather was reported in the area but no distress call was made and no wreckage has been sighted.
The search operation was halted for the night and resumes at about 23:00 GMT.
The plane had left Surabaya in eastern Java at 05:35 local time (22:35 GMT Saturday) and was due to arrive in Singapore at 08:30 (00:30 GMT).
Shocked relatives gathered at both airports, in Singapore and Surabaya, poring over the passenger manifests.
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