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Big Objects Found In AirAsia Plane Search

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 03 Januari 2015 | 10.52

Two "large objects" have been spotted in the Java Sea, says the man leading the hunt for the AirAsia plane that crashed six days ago.

Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters that the parts were found around 90ft (30m) underwater.

He said the agency was trying to get images of the objects using remotely operated underwater vehicles.

Flight QZ8501 disappeared from radar screens over the Java Sea while en route from Indonesia's second-biggest city Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board.

So far, the bodies of 30 victims have been recovered from the sea. No survivors have been found.

Some of the bodies were discovered still strapped into their aircraft seats, officials involved in the search said.

Among the victims recovered were two children, according to reports. Only four have been identified and their bodies returned to their families.

There are now 65 ships, 14 planes and 19 helicopters involved in the search and rescue mission.

The Singaporean defence minister Ng Eng Hen posted pictures of window panels recovered from the sea on his Facebook page on Friday morning.

He wrote: "RSS Supreme recovered a piece of an aircraft this morning, likely to be a window panel. They have informed the Indonesian search authorities and will be handing over the item."

Sonar equipment and metal detectors are being used to try to discover the black box, which will help investigators establish what caused the plane to smash into the sea.

Bad weather is known to have contributed to the disaster, which came half way through the short haul flight.

The pilot had asked air traffic control for permission to climb the Airbus A320 to a higher altitude to avoid storm clouds but heavy air traffic meant this request was denied.

The black box data recorder contains crucial information such as engine temperature, vertical and horizontal speed.

The search team is also hunting for the voice recorder, which will have captured conversations between the pilot and others in the cockpit.

Mr Soelistyo estimated the fuselage would be lying at a depth of between 80ft-100ft (25m and 30m)

The victims identified and returned to their families are Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, flight attendant Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi and passengers Kevin Alexander Soetjipto and Grayson Herbert Linaksita.

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Sony Hack: US Slaps New Sanctions On N Korea

By Sky News US Team

US President Barack Obama has authorised fresh sanctions against North Korea as the "first aspect of our response" to the Sony hack.

The measures target three North Korean entities, including a government intelligence agency and a North Korean arms dealer, the Obama administration said.

The US is also imposing sanctions on 10 individuals who work for those entities or the North Korean government.

President Obama said he had ordered the sanctions because of "the provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions and policies of the Government of North Korea, including its destructive, coercive cyber-related actions during November and December 2014".

In a letter informing congressional leaders of his executive order, he added the activities "constitute a continuing threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States".

"The order is not targeted at the people of North Korea, but rather is aimed at the Government of North Korea and its activities that threaten the United States and others," Mr Obama added.

The US has blamed North Korea for a devastating cyber attack on Sony Pictures that leaked a trove of embarrassing emails and other internal communications, as well as unreleased films.

Pyongyang denied involvement, but has excoriated a comedy by Sony about a CIA plot to kill North Korea's leader.

Sony Pictures initially called off release of the film, The Interview, citing threats of terror attacks against US cinemas.

Mr Obama criticised Sony's decision at the time, and the picture was released last month in movie theatres and online.

The White House declined to comment last week on whether the US was behind a nearly 10-hour shutdown of North Korean websites last week.

Washington already has tough sanctions in place against North Korea over its nuclear programme.


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Ferry Fire: 98 People Still Unaccounted For

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 01 Januari 2015 | 10.52

Ninety-eight people remain unaccounted for following the fire on a Greek ferry in the Adriatic Sea, an Italian official says.

At least 13 people died in the disaster, including two tugboat sailors trying to secure the ship.

It is not clear if the people unaccounted for ever boarded the Norman Atlantic ferry, if they were rescued or if they died in the fire or the sea.

It took two days to rescue around 400 people from the ship - but the exact number of survivors is still not known.

As the search for bodies continues, Italian authorities have expressed concern about the accuracy of the passenger manifest which has left them unclear about how many people were aboard.

Dramatic footage has also emerged of the view from the deck as the fire took hold on Sunday.

It shows thick smoke billowing up from the deck and bursts of flames as a helicopter hovers overhead.

Among the survivors are four Britons, including showjumper Nick Channing-Williams, who was with his Greek fiancee Regina Theofilli.

Mr Channing-Williams told Sky News he was woken at about 5am on Sunday by a fire alarm.

He said: "By the time we got out on deck the flames were huge. A lot of the cars were on fire. It was actually just very scary to be honest."

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    A firefighter carries a child from the "Spirit of Piraeus" cargo container ship as they arrive at Bari harbour, after the car ferry Norman Atlantic caught fire in waters off Greece

Passengers evacuated from the burning ferry Norman Atlantic arrive aboard the Singapore-flagged cargo container ship

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35 Killed In New Year's Stampede In China

Thirty-five people have been killed in a stampede at a New Year's event in Shanghai, city officials have said.

A statement from the Shanghai government confirmed another 43 people were injured in the chaos.

The stampede happened at the city's riverfront Bund area, which is usually jammed with spectators for major events, at 11.35pm (local time), according to the Xinhua news agency.

Photographs on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, show one person doing chest compressions on a shirtless individual, while other people lay on the ground nearby.

Another image shows the area ringed by police.

It was not immediately clear what triggered the stampede, but state media and a witness said the incident was caused when people tried picking up fake money thrown from a building.

A man who brought one of the injured to a local hospital for treatment said fake money had been thrown down from a bar above the street as part of a New Year's celebration.

People rushed to pick up the money, triggering the stampede, said the man, who declined to be identified.

Angry family members clashed with security guards at a hospital where some of the victims were taken.

Authorities had shown some concern about crowd control in the days leading up to New Year's Eve.

They had cancelled an annual 3D laser show on the Bund that last year attracted around 300,000 people.

The historic riverfront strip runs along an area of narrow streets surrounded by restored old buildings, shops and tourist attractions.


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Putin's Enemies: Justice Or Show Trials?

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 31 Desember 2014 | 10.52

Anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny is the latest Russian opposition figure to feature in a series of criminal cases condemned as political "show trials" by critics of President Vladimir Putin.

The accusations have particular resonance in Russia because of the politically-motivated trials carried out over decades by Soviet leaders, which saw millions of politicians and ordinary people executed or sent to prison camps or psychiatric wards on trumped up charges.

The Kremlin denies allegations that it uses the courts to persecute opponents.

:: Alexei Navalny

The 38-year-old lawyer and activist rose to prominence by exposing political corruption in his blog before becoming a prominent speaker at anti-Putin rallies. He coined the phrase "party of crooks and thieves" to describe United Russia, Mr Putin's party.

He and his brother Oleg were charged with defrauding several companies, including the Russian subsidiary of the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher.

Alexei Navalny was previously given a five-year suspended sentence in another embezzlement case, which his supporters also say was politically motivated.

:: Sergei Udaltsov

The leader of the Left Front political grouping, the 37-year-old has described himself as a "Soviet patriot". He and his wife Anastasia have been nicknamed "Russia's Revolutionary Couple".

After playing a prominent role in anti-Putin protests, Mr Udaltsov was charged over a demonstration held the day before Mr Putin's inauguration for his third term as president in May 2012.

He was jailed for four and a half years for organising the protest, which had turned violent.

:: Leonid Razvozzhaev

A Left Front colleague of Sergei Udaltsov, he faced the same charges but fled Russia and tried to seek political asylum in neighbouring Ukraine.

He claimed that while his application was being considered, he was kidnapped, taken back to Russia, tortured and forced to sign confessions which he subsequently disowned.

Russian authorities insisted that he had given himself up voluntarily.

He was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison.

:: Mikhail Kosenko

The political activist was convicted of using violence against police officers during the same Bolotnaya Square protests that Sergei Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev were jailed for organising.

Despite testimony that he was a peaceful demonstrator, Mr Kosenko was sentenced to indefinite psychiatric detention. He was released in July 2014.

Amnesty International said: "Kosenko's only 'crime' was publicly expressing his beliefs. This is reminiscent of the Soviet-era tactics when the authorities used psychiatric treatment to silence dissenting voices."

:: Sergei Magnitsky

One of the most unusual criminal trials in that the defendant, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, died years before his trial had even started.

Magnitsky was instructed by American businessman William Browder to investigate a multi-million tax fraud against the Russian state which Mr Browder's businesses had become unwittingly involved in.

But when Magnitsky speculated that police officials were involved in the fraud, he was arrested and charged with having carried it out himself. He died in custody in 2009 after allegedly being denied medical treatment and brutally beaten.

In July 2012 he was convicted - three years after his death - of tax evasion.

Mr Browder said: "Today's verdict will go down in history as one of the most shameful moments for Russia since the days of Joseph Stalin."

He successfully campaigned for the United States to implement sanctions against Russian individuals linked to the case.

:: Greenpeace

In September 2013, 30 Greenpeace activists, including six Britons, were arrested for taking part in a protest at an Arctic oil installation.

They were initially charged with piracy, which could have carried a prison term of up to 15 years. The charge was downgraded to hooliganism, which still could have carried a seven-year term, before they were released after two months in detention.

At the time Mr Putin said their treatment should serve as a lesson to others and suggested unnamed foreign rivals could have been behind their actions.

:: Pussy Riot

The all-female punk group were jailed for two years for hooliganism for performing an anti-Putin song in Moscow's main cathedral in March 2012.

They were freed in an amnesty initiated by Mr Putin in December 2013 shortly before the Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi.

:: Vladimir Yevtushenkov

One of Russia's richest men, the billionaire was placed under house arrest in September on suspicion of money-laundering over his purchase of a controlling stake in oil company Bashneft.

He was released from house arrest on 17 December and was praised in Mr Putin's annual press conference two days later.

However, Kremlin critics say the case is part of a bid by the Russian government to regain control of oil and gas assets sold off in the chaotic privatisations of the 1990s.

The arrest has led to comparisons with the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

:: Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mr Khodorkovsky was one of the original "oligarchs" - the tycoons who took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s to make their fortunes, before using their clout to effectively rule Russia during the weak presidency of illness-plagued Boris Yeltsin.

In 2003 Mr Khodorkovsky was arrested on charges of fraud. He was jailed for nine years and his oil company Yukos broken up by the state. He and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, were put on trial again in 2010, this time for embezzlement, and were jailed for another four years. Mr Khodorkovsky was suddenly released in December 2013.

Both trials were seen as politically-motivated and a signal from Mr Putin to the rich and powerful to think twice before supporting opposition parties.


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Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Arrested At Rally

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been detained by police after tweeting he was breaking his house arrest to join a protest.

The opposition activist - who ran for mayor of Moscow in 2013 - had been convicted of fraud alongside his brother Oleg earlier on Tuesday.

Although Alexei Navalny received a three-and-a-half-year suspended sentence, Oleg Navalny, a father-of-two who has no role in the opposition movement, was jailed for the same period.

Navalny said on Twitter that he planned to join protesters in Moscow and posted a picture of himself on what appeared to be a metro train.

"I may be under house arrest, but today I really want to be with you. That's why I am going too," he wrote.

The blogger's supporters called for a mass protest near the Kremlin, with at least 18,000 pledging on Facebook to attend.

Moscow officials warned that "all unsanctioned actions will be prevented by the security forces".

TV footage showed several thousand anti-Kremlin demonstrators gathered in the dark near Red Square and ringed by police or soldiers with riot shields.

Navalny was taken into custody as he approached the rally, but he tweeted urging others to stay and protest. 

"I was detained, but they won't be able to detain everyone," he wrote.

He was then driven home and prevented from leaving his apartment again.

The protesters who gathered on the square chanted: "We are the power!" and "You won't be able to jail us all!"

About 100 other people were arrested but the rally was allowed to continue for two hours before it was broken up by security forces.

The verdict in the brothers' case was scheduled for next month, but was abruptly moved forward to the day before New Year's Eve, the main holiday in Russia, leading to speculation that authorities wanted to head off planned protests.

The trial - which saw the pair accused of stealing 30 million roubles, around $500,000 (£372,000) at the current exchange rate, from two firms - was viewed by many critics as part of a campaign to stifle dissent.

Alexei Navalny reacted angrily to the jailing of his brother, shouting out: "Aren't you ashamed of what you're doing? You want to punish me even harder?"

He briefly entered the metal cage that his brother was put into after the verdict and appeared to be holding back tears.

The European Union said the verdict appeared to be "politically motivated" but called for protesters to show restraint.

The US State Department said it was a "disturbing development designed to punish and deter political activism".


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Objects Spotted In Sea In Missing Plane Search

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 30 Desember 2014 | 10.52

Objects Spotted In Sea In Missing Plane Search

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An Australian plane has spotted debris in the sea during the hunt for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, authorities have said.

Jakarta's Air Force base commander Rear Marshal Dwi Putranto said an Australian Orion aircraft had detected "suspicious" objects near Nangka island, between Sumatra and Borneo and close to Belitung island.

The AP news agency said the spot is about 700 miles (1,120km) from the location where the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers over the Java Sea in the early hours of Sunday morning.

But it is well within the area currently being searched.

Indonesia's vice president Jusuf Kalla said there was not enough evidence to confirm the report.

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    Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) personnel survey the waters, on board a C-130 Hercules, during a Search and Locate operation for the missing AirAsia QZ8501 aircraft

The jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official said

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Countries around Asia sent ships and planes to help in the search effort. According to the RSAF, two C-130 aircraft were deployed on Monday to join in the search

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Navy soldiers prepare food on the KRI Sultan Hasanuddin-366 warship before joining search operations at Batuampar port in Batam

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Indonesia's vice-president Jusuf Kalla (L) monitors progress during a visit to the National Search and Rescue Agency in Jakarta

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Objects Spotted In Sea In Missing Plane Search

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An Australian plane has spotted debris in the sea during the hunt for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, authorities have said.

Jakarta's Air Force base commander Rear Marshal Dwi Putranto said an Australian Orion aircraft had detected "suspicious" objects near Nangka island, between Sumatra and Borneo and close to Belitung island.

The AP news agency said the spot is about 700 miles (1,120km) from the location where the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers over the Java Sea in the early hours of Sunday morning.

But it is well within the area currently being searched.

Indonesia's vice president Jusuf Kalla said there was not enough evidence to confirm the report.

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    Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) personnel survey the waters, on board a C-130 Hercules, during a Search and Locate operation for the missing AirAsia QZ8501 aircraft

The jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official said

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Countries around Asia sent ships and planes to help in the search effort. According to the RSAF, two C-130 aircraft were deployed on Monday to join in the search

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Navy soldiers prepare food on the KRI Sultan Hasanuddin-366 warship before joining search operations at Batuampar port in Batam

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Indonesia's vice-president Jusuf Kalla (L) monitors progress during a visit to the National Search and Rescue Agency in Jakarta

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AirAsia Flight's Altitude Request Was Refused

AirAsia Flight's Altitude Request Was Refused

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Pilots of the AirAsia plane thought to have crashed in the Java Sea were refused permission to climb higher to avoid a storm, according to Indonesia's air travel chief.

Joko Muryo Atmodjo said Flight QZ8501 had asked to ascend from 32,000ft (9,753m) to 38,000ft (11,582m) but controllers denied the request because of heavy air traffic.

Five minutes later the plane fell off the radar without sending any distress signal.

The aircraft had been on its way from Surabaya, on the Indonesian island of Java, to Singapore.

The search team's grim prediction is that the Airbus A320 is now "likely at the bottom of the sea".

Data from Flightradar24.com showed several other planes were between 34,000 to 36,000ft when it disappeared on Sunday morning.

Unconfirmed secondary radar from Malaysia suggests it was climbing at 100 knots too slow.

Pilot Ray Karam Singh, who is familiar with the route, told Sky News icy conditions at high altitudes might have caused the plane to stall.

He said: "As you climb higher the temperature gets colder ... the speed comes down – your margin of error is less."

Search teams have found "suspicious" objects 700 miles from where the plane disappeared but no link has been confirmed.

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    Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) personnel survey the waters, on board a C-130 Hercules, during a Search and Locate operation for the missing AirAsia QZ8501 aircraft

The jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official said

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Countries around Asia sent ships and planes to help in the search effort. According to the RSAF, two C-130 aircraft were deployed on Monday to join in the search

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Navy soldiers prepare food on the KRI Sultan Hasanuddin-366 warship before joining search operations at Batuampar port in Batam

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Indonesia's vice-president Jusuf Kalla (L) monitors progress during a visit to the National Search and Rescue Agency in Jakarta

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AirAsia Flight's Altitude Request Was Refused

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Pilots of the AirAsia plane thought to have crashed in the Java Sea were refused permission to climb higher to avoid a storm, according to Indonesia's air travel chief.

Joko Muryo Atmodjo said Flight QZ8501 had asked to ascend from 32,000ft (9,753m) to 38,000ft (11,582m) but controllers denied the request because of heavy air traffic.

Five minutes later the plane fell off the radar without sending any distress signal.

The aircraft had been on its way from Surabaya, on the Indonesian island of Java, to Singapore.

The search team's grim prediction is that the Airbus A320 is now "likely at the bottom of the sea".

Data from Flightradar24.com showed several other planes were between 34,000 to 36,000ft when it disappeared on Sunday morning.

Unconfirmed secondary radar from Malaysia suggests it was climbing at 100 knots too slow.

Pilot Ray Karam Singh, who is familiar with the route, told Sky News icy conditions at high altitudes might have caused the plane to stall.

He said: "As you climb higher the temperature gets colder ... the speed comes down – your margin of error is less."

Search teams have found "suspicious" objects 700 miles from where the plane disappeared but no link has been confirmed.

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    Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) personnel survey the waters, on board a C-130 Hercules, during a Search and Locate operation for the missing AirAsia QZ8501 aircraft

The jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official said

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Countries around Asia sent ships and planes to help in the search effort. According to the RSAF, two C-130 aircraft were deployed on Monday to join in the search

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Navy soldiers prepare food on the KRI Sultan Hasanuddin-366 warship before joining search operations at Batuampar port in Batam

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Indonesia's vice-president Jusuf Kalla (L) monitors progress during a visit to the National Search and Rescue Agency in Jakarta

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What Happened To Flight QZ8501? Five Theories

Written By Unknown on Senin, 29 Desember 2014 | 10.52

As rescuers prepare to resume the hunt for QZ8501 with first light, aviation experts look at what might have happened to the AirAsia flight.

:: Mechanical Failure:

The A320 has an excellent safety record with only 26 crashes since they were first brought into work in 1988.

According to pilot and aviation expert Gideon Ewers all of those problems were caused by other issues rather than problems with the plane.

The most famous was a bird strike on the US Airlines plane that was forced to ditch in the Hudson River in 2009.

:: Hit By Storms: 

The pilot had requested to increase flying height before the plane disappeared from radar to avoid bad weather.

According to aviation expert Captain Mike Vivian storms can tower thousands of feet high and the thunder clouds can cause serious damage to aircraft.

However, the weather conditions are not uncommon in the area and pilots are expert at navigating them.

Mr Vivian said it was unlikely that a sudden weather event caused the plane to go missing.

:: Stalled By Ice:

The plane could have flown into icy conditions which may have caused it to stall and "drop out of the sky", according to pilot Ray Karam Singh, who is familiar with the route over the Java Sea.

He said the pilot of the QZ8501 could have been attempting to fly out of icy conditions by going higher but could have encountered further issues with the ice.

Mr Singh told Sky News he thought ice was the most likely cause, rather than thunderstorms.

:: Deliberate Act:

The pilots of the AirAsia plane maintained communication with air traffic control until the very last minute, according to David Learmount, the operations and safety editor of Flight Global.

The pilot's mantra is to aviate, navigate and then communicate.

Therefore, something distracted them and meant they were unable to speak to air traffic control.

Mr Learmount said: "Something distracted their attention so they were no longer able to keep talking. We don't know what happened at the moment, and it doesn't appear to be a deliberate act."

It is usual in terrorist targets that the group responsible is keen to claim a "victory".

:: Pilot Error:

The Indonesian pilot had 20,000 hours of flying experience, according to the boss of the airline, Tony Fernandes.

Seven thousand of those hours had been with AirAsia.

He would be used to flying the short-haul route and was highly experienced, according to aviation experts.


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AirAsia Plane 'Likely At Bottom Of The Sea'

The missing AirAsia passenger plane "is likely at the bottom of the sea", the chief of Indonesia's search effort has said.

Bambang Soelistyo added that an initial investigation into the disappearance of Flight QZ8501 had revealed that the "estimated crash position is in the sea", as more than a dozen ship try to find the aircraft.

The Airbus A320 stopped communicating with air traffic control over the Java Sea in the early hours of Sunday morning. The pilot issued no distress signal.

A British businessman and his two-year-old daughter are among the 162 people on board the jet, which was travelling from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. 

The main focus of the search-and-rescue operation lies near Belitung island, where the plane last made contact.

Five planes, three helicopters, 12 navy ships and several warships have been deployed, officials have confirmed.

A Royal Australian Air Force aircraft has also joined the effort, with Prime Minister Tony Abbott pledging that his country would do "whatever it humanly can to assist".

First Admiral Sigit Setiayana said visibility was good, adding: "God willing, we can find it soon."

:: Follow live updates with Sky News here

Several storm clouds were along the route of the flight, and Sunday's search for the Airbus A320 was hampered by heavy rain.

AirAsia is a low-cost carrier which has been in operation since 2001. It has a good safety record, and none of its planes have gone missing before.

The company's founder, Tony Fernandes, has described the incident as "his worst nightmare".

The experienced captain of the plane, who has amassed more than 20,000 flying hours, had requested to change route because of bad weather.

His 22-year-old daughter has used social media to beg for his safe return, writing: "Papa, come home, I still need you."

A fellow pilot, Rakam Singh, told Sky News: "As you climb higher the temperature gets lower... if you hit turbulence you've got more chance of stalling an aircraft if you hit this kind of weather."

He said the chances of carrying out a safe landing after that were low.

This year has been the worst year for aviation accidents in a decade - largely as a result of the MH17 and MH370 disasters.

Shares in AirAsia fell by 11.6% at the start of trade in the Malaysian stock market on Monday morning.


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