Another Missing Flight! An AirAsia Fligh A320-200 Reportedly Lost Contact With Air Traffic Control Late Sunday!

An AirAsia flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control shortly after asking for an unusual route in what looks like the Malaysian MH370 that disappeared mysteriously earlier in the year scenario.     

The captain of the A320 had just messaged a request to descend and deviate from its course because of bad weather.

There were 155 passengers and seven crew on-board. Indonesia Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa said the aircraft lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6.17am local time.

It vanished just 42 minutes into the three-and-half-hour flight to Singapore.
He said the plane, an Airbus A320-200, had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact.

The plane requested a flight path change due to bad weather just before contact was lost, Air Asia has confirmed. The pilot reportedly asked to increase its altitude from 32,000ft to 38,000 ft to “avoid clouds”.

Like MH370, the AirAsia Indonesia flight disappeared from radars and made no further communication with Air Traffic Control early into the flight from Surabaya to Singapore.