Search operations continue for missing AirAsia Flight 호주 당국, 수색현장서 에어아시아기 잔해 발

Details

Description

The international search resumes for the missing Air-Asia passenger jet, that was carrying more than 160 people when it vanished over Indonesian waters.
With more, we turn to Paul Yi at the News Center.
Paul, what are the latest developments?
There have been reports coming in that an Australian patrol plane has found "something" some "unidentified objects" in waters near the search area.
In a separate report, an Indonesian helicopter saw oil patches... hundreds of kilometers away.
Officials say its too early to know whether these sightings are connected.
This as investigators are scrambling to find out what exactly happened to the airliner, which gave no distress call before it went dark.
Our Kim Min-ji gives us the details.

An Australian reconnaissance plane has spotted "something" in waters near the area where search operations have been ongoing for missing AirAsia Flight 8501.
Indonesian authorities say the possible debris was seen about 11-hundred kilometers from the last known location of the plane.
Search operations continue for any sign of the missing plane,... which officials have said is likely now at the "bottom of the sea."

"Our evaluation of the coordinates that we received suggest it is underwater, so our presumption now is that the aircraft is under the sea.
Currently ships, planes and helicopters are being used to find the missing aircraft... after search operations were suspended Sunday night.
Air traffic control officials say the plane went missing Sunday at 7:24 A-M, local time, after a request by one of the pilots to fly at a higher altitude to avoid storm clouds was denied.
The airliner... was flying from the Indonesian city of Surabaya... to Singapore, when it went missing, 40 minutes into flight above the Java Sea, with 162 people on board.
Of them, 155 are Indonesian,... with one British, Malaysian and Singaporean passenger, and three from Korea.
According to Korea′s foreign ministry.... the Korean nationals are a couple in their 30′s, and their 11-month-old daughter.
The ministry plans to send a surveillance plane as early as late Tuesday, to help in the search and rescue operation.
At a makeshift crisis center in Indonesia′s Surabaya airport, distraught relatives, wait for news of their loved ones.

"We are very surprised and very sad. Our grandchild was going to Singapore for a holiday, but the accident happened."
AirAsia is a Malaysia-based, budget airline that travels to 88 destinations, mostly in Southeast Asia.
Kim Min-ji, Arirang News.