This is some Bermuda Triangle stuff. First that one Jet in the Indian Ocean now this.
Air traffic controllers in Indonesia have lost contact with an AirAsia plane with 162 people on board, local media reported Sunday.
Indonesia's Metro TV station reported that contact with the plane, Flight QZ 8501, was lost sometime after takeoff. Sky News reported that an official with Indonesia's Transport Ministry said that contact with the Jakarta air traffic control station was lost at 6:17 a.m. local time Sunday (6:17 p.m. Eastern Time Saturday). Sky also reported that the official said that the aircraft had requested an unusual route before losing contact.
According to the website FlightAware.com, the Airbus320 was scheduled to depart from Juanda International Airport on the Indonesian island of East Java at 5:30 a.m. local time, with arrival in Singapore scheduled for 8:20 a.m. (7:20 p.m. Eastern Time Sunday). It had last flown the route on Dec. 26.