JAKARTA: Malaysian Civil aviation authorities said on Tuesday the a few passengers of the unlucky plane were found floating on the Java sea.
This is not clear that how many survivors and causalities are present their at this moment.
Acting Director General of Transport Murjatmodjo said the fragments are part of AirAsia flight which were spotted near Kalimantan coast.
The plane wreckage was found in the radios 10 Km from the same point where plane lost contact with control tower.
Reuters coated a transportation ministry that the AirAsia jet presumed to have crashed in shallow waters off the Indonesian coast.
Djoko Murjatmodjo said, “we are checking if it’s debris from the aircraft. It’s probably from the body of the aircraft.”
Based on the size and colouring of the fragments, it was likely to be part of the missing jet, Murjatmodjo added.
Helicopters are preparing to go and examine the location as soon as weather permits, he said.
Earlier Airbus 320-200 from the Surabaya to Singapore had lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday, AirAsia confirmed the regretful report.
The plane left Juanda International Airport at 5:27 a.m. Sunday (5:27 p.m. Saturday ET) and was due to arrive in Singapore at 8:37 a.m. Sunday (7:37 p.m. ET), according to the website.
AirAsia Indonesia released an updated official statement disclosing the details of passengers and crew members on board of the missing flight QZ-8501 on Sunday morning (December 28).
According to official statement, there were 155 passengers on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant. Nationalities of passengers and crew onboard were 156 from Indonesia, 3 South Korean, one each from France, Malaysia and Singapore respectively.
There were two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer on board. The captain in command had a total of 6,100 flying hours and the first officer a total of 2,275 flying hours, statement said.
The Indonesia of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is supervising search and rescue operations were underway for QZ-8501.
The aircraft was on the submitted flight plan route and was requesting deviation due to enroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost while it was still under the control of the Indonesian Air Traffic Control (ATC).
The aircraft had undergone its last scheduled maintenance on 16 November 2014.
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