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28 December 2014

Missing AirAsia flight QZ8501: what we know so far

Air traffic control has lost contact with a passenger plane flying from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board.

By New Statesman

(Photo By The authorities are searching for the missing airliner. Photo: Getty)

Here is what we know so far about the third potential air incident connected to Malaysia this year:

 – An AirAsia Indonesia airliner, flight QZ8501, flying from Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control. It went missing at 7.24 local time.

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