PANGKALAN BUN, Dec 30 – Items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects were spotted in the sea during an aerial search Tuesday for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, Indonesian officials said. An AFP photographer on the search flight that spotted the possible debris said he had seen objects in the
KUALA KRAI, Dec 30 – There is nothing in standard insurance agreements which will invalidate compensation in the event a state of emergency is declared in a natural disaster area, the DAP said today. Its national publicity chief Tony Pua said this while dismissing the reasons given by Prime Minister
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 – “My heart bleeds for all the relatives of my crew and our passengers.” This is the heart wrenching message posted by AirAsia Group Chief Executive Officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes on his Twitter page today, when referring to the family of those on-board flight QZ8501. He also
SYDNEY, Dec 30 – An Australian aviation expert said Tuesday human error led to the disappearance of AirAsia flight QZ8501 after the pilots flew directly into a well-known danger zone above the Java Sea. Neil Hansford said that either the Indonesian captain or French first officer had plotted a “dangerous flight plan”,
GLASGOW, Dec 30 – A healthcare worker recently back from Sierra Leone was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday by doctors in Scotland’s largest city, the first diagnosis of the deadly virus in Britain during the current outbreak. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that the patient was a female health worker who
DUNGUN, Dec 30 – The government has no control over the sharp rise in the price of goods in Kelantan but is trying to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism (KPDNKK) must ensure that supply
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 – The ringgit extended yesterday losses to open lower against the US dollar this morning on continued selling, a dealer said. As at 9.25am, the ringgit was quoted at 3.5000/5030 against the greenback from 3.4960/4980 yesterday. The ringgit traded mixed against other major currencies. It depreciated against the yen
NEW YORK, Dec 30 – Air travel advocates are demanding global aviation authorities explain how an AirAsia jetliner with 162 people aboard got lost at a time when satellites and webcams monitor society’s every move. “It should be impossible for an airliner to go missing” in an age when people can
CAMERON HIGHLANDS, Dec 30 – A pregnant woman and her one-year-old child died in a landslide at Tringkap here early this morning. Her husband however survived the 5.29am incident. A spokesman of Fire and Rescue Department said the man was pulled out at 7.13am. “The child’s body was pulled from under the rubble
ATHENS, Dec 30 – Rescue teams evacuated more than 400 people from a car ferry that caught fire off Greece’s Adriatic coast in a 36-hour operation on roiling seas, but 10 people were killed in the disaster. Italian and Greek authorities continued an air search of the sea around the vessel
JAKARTA, Dec 30 – An Indonesian family of 10 said on Monday they had a miraculous escape when they arrived too late to catch AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which went missing shortly after take-off en route to Singapore. Christianawati, 36, said the 10 of them, who included her family, her mother and her younger
BEIJING, Dec 30 – China is looking at signing an agreement with the United States to target assets illegally taken out of China by corrupt officials, a newspaper said yesterday, as the government tightens the screws in its anti-graft battle. China has vowed to pursue a search, dubbed Operation “Fox Hunt,” beyond
BALIK PULAU, Dec 30 – A freak storm battered the west coast of Penang Island late last night, with some 10 houses damaged. In what started as light rain at 8.30pm and progressing into a thunderstorms, wind gusts of 30 km/h were reported to swept across few villages. A man in
WASHINGTON, Dec 30 – Indonesia has requested help from the United States to search for a missing Indonesia AirAsia jetliner, US officials said Monday, amid fears the aircraft crashed into the sea. The State Department also confirmed that no Americans were on Flight QZ8501, which disappeared on Sunday over the Java
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 – Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said all efforts will be made to find the AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 which disappeared on the way from Surabaya to Singapore on Sunday morning. He said Indonesian President Joko Widodo had also issued a directive to accelerate efforts to search
SURABAYA, Indonesia/JAKARTA – Countries around Asia on Tuesday stepped up the search for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that is presumed to have crashed in shallow waters off the Indonesian coast, with Washington also sending a warship to help find the missing jet. Soelistyo, head of Indonesia’s search and rescue
CHINA, Dec 30 – China yesterday sent a warship to help in the search for the missing AirAsia plane, which a top official warned was probably at the bottom of the sea. International crews scouring Indonesian waters for missing Flight QZ8501 had focused on a possible patch of oil for clues. However, the
WASHINGTON, Dec 30 – Indonesia has requested help from the United States to search for a missing Indonesia AirAsia jetliner, US officials said Monday, amid fears the aircraft crashed into the sea. The State Department also confirmed that no Americans were on Flight QZ8501, which disappeared on Sunday over the Java
UNITED KINGDOM, Dec 29 – A Virgin Atlantic plane has touched down at Gatwick Airport after circling southern England for four hours when its right wing landing gear failed to come down. Flight VS43 was captured on a flight radar circling the region after taking off from Gatwick Airport. Virgin
