terça-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2014

our condolences to the families of the passengers on AirAsia flight QZ8501

LIVE Updated 3h ago


AirAsia confirms debris located in Java sea comes
from the AirAsia Airbus A320 which went missing on
 Sunday carrying 162 passengers, with more than 40 bodies recovered.

A view from an Indonesian search and rescue aircraft over the Java Sea of debris that may come from the missing AirAsia flight.




It’s nearly 8.30pm in Surabaya, and all search efforts for today are now 
over, so we’re ending this live blog. Here’s
  our latest story on what happened today, by my colleagues Jonathan Kaiman
,Paul Farrell and Michael Safi:


Teams searching for AirAsia flight QZ8501 have begun recovering dozens of 
bodies from the Java Sea, as Indonesian officials confirmed that scattered debris
 found nearby came from the plane.

A major search and rescue effort involving at least 30 ships and 15 aircraft
 from nine countries has been looking for the aircraft since it vanished
 early on Sunday morning while carrying 162 people from Surabaya, Indonesia,
 to Singapore. The findings mark a major breakthrough on the operation’s third day.

The flight’s carrier, AirAsia Indonesia, an affiliate of the Malaysian budget carrier
AirAsia, confirmed in a statement posted on Facebookthat the debris belonged to
 the missing flight.

“I am absolutely devastated,” AirAsia’s chief executive, Tony Fernandes, said,
according to the statement. “This is a very difficult moment for all of us at 
AirAsia as we await further developments of the search and rescue operations
 but our first priority now is the wellbeing of the family members of those on 
board QZ8501.”

The Indonesian television station TvOne reportedly broadcast images of a
floating body, then apologised for showing the pictures after relatives of
passengers in Surabaya saw the images on television and burst into tears.

AFP reported that at least two relatives collapsed and had to be carried out
 on stretchers. “My heart will be totally crushed if it’s true. I will lose a son,”
 60-year-old Dwijanto told the news agency.

The Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, arrived in Surabaya after nightfall
 to meet the families.
source http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2014/dec/30/
]missing-airasia-flight-qz8501-china-and-france-join-expanded-search

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