KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – A massive search is underway for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 which lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 5.17am Malaysian time. Indonesian authorities have mobilised search and rescue operation near Belitung Island. It has deployed five ships and a surveillance aircraft carrying
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – The Jakarta Post reported the country’s Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) on the Bangka-Belitung islands as saying that they had dispatched a vessel to search for the missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501. During a press conference earlier, Indonesia’s acting director-general of transportation said they were not going to make assumptions
SINGAPORE, Dec 28 – Friends and relatives of passengers on the AirAsia Indonesia plane that vanished on its way to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia were ushered quickly into a holding room in Changi Airport on Sunday morning. Airport staff and auxiliary police officers cordoned the area on the third floor of
ATHENS, Dec 28 – An Italian-flagged ferry carrying 466 passengers and crew caught fire while sailing from Greece to Italy, coastguard officials said on Sunday. The Norman Atlantic, sailing from Patras in western Greece to the Italian port of Ancona, was 33 nautical miles off the small island of Othonoi when
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – The following is the Air Asia Flight QZ 8501 timeline. The Airbus A320-200 aircraft, took off from Juanda International Airport, Surabaya on Dec 28 (Sunday) at 5.27am (local time) and schedules to land in Changi at 8.37am. At 6.17am (Surabaya local time), QZ8501 lost contact with Air
KUALA LIPIS, Dec 28 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Malaysia was prepared to help Indonesia over the reported missing AirAsia Indonesia aircraft on flight QZ8501, today. While still waiting for more details on the incident, Najib said what could be confirmed so far was that the
KUALA LIPIS, Dec 28 – Cabinet ministers who are on vacation overseas have been ordered to return home to mount operations to assist flood victims. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the directive was issued this morning and the ministers concerned were now making preparations to return to Malaysia.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) today denied the dissemination of the message that a tsunami and storm would purportedly hit the Sabah east coast within 36 hours’ time. A statement from the department advised members of the public not to easily believe any advice or warning
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – The number of flood victims in Kelantan has risen to 93,407 this morning from over 80,000 yesterday, while there is little change in Terengganu, Pahang and Perak. In KELANTAN, Kota Baharu district has recorded the highest number of flood victims at 42,469 from 9,663 families housed at
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – As offers of help and prayers stream in by concerned leaders and members of the public, Group Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia Tony Fernandes has spoken for the first time, thanking everyone for their kind thoughts and prayers. According to Bernama, Fernandes said, “Thank you for
JAKARTA, Dec 28 – The search is on for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that lost contact with air traffic control in Indonesia on Sunday. Before communication was lost, AirAsia Flight 8501 asked to deviate from its planned flight route — from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore — because
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – An aircraft has reportedly crashed off the east coast of Sumatera, in the waters of East Belitung. This report came after authorities confirmed that AirAsia Flight QZ8501 went missing earlier today. An Indonesian news portal Bangka Pos had quoted an official from H.A.S Hanandjoeddin Tanjungpandan Airport
KUALA LIPIS, Dec 28 – Malaysia has vowed to assist in the investigation into the disappearance of AirAsia flight QZ8501, which lost contact with air traffic controllers between Singapore and Surabaya, Indonesia this morning. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Razak said he had not been fully briefed on the
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) began search and rescue for an Air Asia flight which had lost contact this morning. The Airbus 320 Air Asia flight was enroute Singapore route from Surabaya when had lost contact at 6.17am (West Indonesia Time) at Teluk Kumai,
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – AirAsia Indonesia today confirms that flight QZ 8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control. “AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 7.24am this morning. “At the present time
PUCHONG, Dec 27 – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin wants the standard operating procedures (SOP) of national disaster management to be reviewed to reduce burdens and losses in the future. The deputy prime minister said it included the need to have a more efficient weather forecast system to ease preparations to face
KOTA BAHARU, Dec 27 – The special sitting of the Kelantan Legislative Assembly for tabling of the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code II or hudud scheduled this Monday (Dec 29) has been postponed to a date to be fixed later. Kelantan Menteri Besar Kelantan Datuk Ahmad Yaakob said the decision was made
KOTA BAHARU, Dec 27 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today visited several areas that were severely affected by the floods in the state. The Prime Minister boarded a Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) helicopter to observe the affected areas which included Pasir Mas, Tumpat, Rantau Panjang and Tanah
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 – Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) has so far provided 70 generators of between 500kW and 1,000kW capacity to states badly-hit by the floods. TNB senior general manager (operations region 2), TNB Distribution Division, Abdul Aziz Abdul Majid, said 45 generators were in Pahang; 19 in Terengganu; five
KOTA BARU, Dec 27 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said for the time being there is no necessity for the federal government to declare a disaster emergency for Kelantan, after taking into consideration the implications involved. “If the government announces an emergency, the implications that will arise include insurance companies
