AirAsia

In a bizarre and terrifying romantic plunge – literally – a young man decided to pop the question to his girlfriend as the passenger jet they were traveling on was plummeting rapidly, thousands of feet towards Earth. Chris Jeanes and his girlfriend, Casey Kinchella, were on their way to Bali on board an AirAsia flight […]

A terrifying footage has emerged of an AirAsia plane shaking like a “washing machine” mid-air after it reportedly experienced engine issues and was forced to turn back 90 minutes after takeoff. On Sunday, AirAsia X Flight D7237 was forced to make a mid-air turn back after what may have been an engine failure. The Malaysia-bound […]

An AirAsia flight flew in the wrong direction and landed in an entirely different country. The plane with 212 passengers continued on the erroneous flight path and the pilots didn’t realize the same till it was too late to take any remedial action. An AirAsia flight that was supposed to fly from Sydney to Malaysia […]

Airline traveler Munyee Lau wrote an open letter to a fellow passenger whom she says was extremely rude and obnoxious during a recent flight. According to NewsMax, Lau was so disgusted by the man sitting behind her, she decided to write down a few things she had noticed over the course of the eight-hour flight, […]

Munyee Lau wrote an open letter to a fellow airline passenger who was extremely rude during a recent AirAsia flight, and it’s now going viral. According to the Canada Journal, Lau was on an eight hour flight from Singapore to Sydney, but wasn’t able to rest one bit because of a passenger that was causing […]

A Malaysian woman was so traumatized by the B.O. of a fellow passenger on an AirAsia flight from Singapore to Sydney, Australia that she penned an open letter to a man we will call Satan’s Anus — a man she says smelled like the “anus of satan.” According to Buzzfeed, Lau Mun Yee, 24, of […]

The captain of the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 that crashed into the Java Sea was not in his seat when the plane stalled. Reports indicate that the pilot had exited his seat to turn off a faulty computer while the plane was under manual control. Reuters reports that the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 captain was out of […]

Investigators have confirmed that the co-pilot of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 was at the controls when the plane went down in the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board. The pilot, an experienced former fighter pilot, was monitoring the flight during the time of the crash, but did not have the controls. The Wall Street […]

According to the latest reports, the bodies of up to 90 passengers who took AirAsia flight QZ8501 are still trapped on the seabed of the Java Sea, out of the reach of rescue teams who have been unable to recover them. Despite numerous brave attempts by members of the Indonesian military to raise the fuselage […]

The second attempt at recovering the fuselage of the crashed AirAsia jetliner has failed due to a very strong current breaking the rope linking to lifting balloons. The recovery attempt was taking place on Sunday and the breaking of the rope caused the wreckage to sink back to the floor of the ocean yet again. […]

Authorities are working to lift the fuselage of AirAsia flight 8501 from the Java Sea, but their first attempt has failed. According to AOL News, the Airbus A320 was lifted using balloons, but as the body of the plane reached the water’s surface, the balloons deflated, and it fell back to the bottom of the […]

A crash investigator with the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crash noted that the voice recorder black box revealed that sirens were “screaming” in the background as pilots talked among each other. The sirens were indicating a stall that the pilots were frantically trying to stabilize. According to ABC Australia, the crash investigator noted that “several alarms” […]

The data recorder from AirAsia Flight QZ8501’s “black box” was pulled from the Java Sea this morning at approximately 7:11 a.m. Many experts have claimed that the plane may have “experienced an explosion” before hitting the water based off of the location and condition of debris. With the flight data recorder now in hand, aviation […]

One of the flight data recorders (black box) of the crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been located by divers, reports Sky News. The news of the discovery of the black box of the aircraft, an Airbus A320, comes just a few hours after the Inquisitr reported about the news of a large section of the […]

Yahoo! News, citing Reuters, is reporting that an Indonesian search crew looking for the crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has found the crashed aircraft’s fuselage. The fuselage was detected after the team scoured the area using sonar detection equipment. According to Supriyadi, an operations coordinator for the National Search and Rescue Agency of Indonesia, a sonar […]

The first photographs of the wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 have emerged, and the eerie images depict the remains of the jet’s tail laying at the bottom of the Java Sea. The images reveal what may be the most crucial part of the wreckage of flight QZ8501, since the flight recorders are likely contained within, […]

On December 28, fashion store owner The Meiji Thejakusuma boarded AirAsia Flight 8501 in her home city of Surabaya with her husband, mother, three children and future son-in-law. As she bid her relatives goodbye at the airport, the Daily Mail reports that it is her last words prior to boarding the AirAsia plane that will […]

When AirAsia Flight 8501 went missing last month, an international search for the plane, believed lost in the Pacific Ocean, began. Joining that search was the USS Sampson, a guided missile destroyer that was near the area when the crash was first reported, and responded with maritime aid quickly. So far, the USS Sampson has […]

As the rescue mission to recover the remains of all 162 passengers on board AirAsia Flight 8501 continues, new information reveals that the plane was not authorized to travel that route when it crashed. According to Indonesian authorities, the airliner was only permitted to fly from Surabaya to Singapore on four days of the week, […]

According to experienced former military jet pilot Captain Iriyanto, AirAsia flight QZ8501 may have performed a successful emergency water landing only for the aircraft to be overcome by huge waves. As is common with such tragic air disasters as the recent AirAsia crash, numerous theories as to the reasons for the crash surface on the […]

As recovery efforts for the AirAsia plane crash continue in the Java Sea, experts are stepping forward to share leading theories on what caused the tragic crash on Sunday. One theory is that a small explosion caused AirAsia flight Qz8501 to crash. According to John Nance, a former Air Force pilot and current news consultant […]

As previously reported by the Inquisitr, missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 was believed to have been spotted overnight by an Australian Orion aircraft. The plane spotted several objects near Nangka island, about 700 miles away from where the AirAsia flight last made radio contact. A few hours ago, official confirmation came. The recovery process began Tuesday. […]

The crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has now been confirmed as rescue teams have found significant amounts of debris, as well as having recovered at least 40 bodies from the seas off the coast of Borneo. The New York Times reported today that although Indonesian officials did not explicitly say so, their comments suggested it […]

The search resumes for AirAsia flight QZ8501. Yesterday was a smaller search than today’s. Search for missing Air Asia plane #QZ8501 resumes. Eight boats, two aircraft & three helicopters deployed to search for missing flight. — Breaking News Feed (@PzFeed) December 28, 2014 Since 7 a.m., local time, rescue vessels have been searching for any […]

Within hours of the passenger list being released for the missing AirAsia QZ8501 flight, Twitter users were posting their pleas that their friends are found safe. Less than 24 hours after the flight went missing around storms near Indonesia, it was revealed that it was possible fuel had run out on the Air Asia flight. […]

Since AirAsia Flight QZ8501 went missing, there have been no shortage of explanations, recriminations, and conspiracies floated, but Fox News host Anna Kooiman’s speculation on Fox & Friends, wondering if the disappearance of the flight could be attributed to the metric system, could well take the cake. Kooiman was speaking with former FAA spokesperson Scott […]

Flight 8501 has been missing for several hours now, and conspiracy theories have surfaced online despite the stark differences between this AirAsia flight and the missing Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared off of radar back in March. According to the Heavy, there are quite a few theories out there that could “explain” why these planes […]

According to Google Trends, terms like “Air Asia” and the related searches of “AirAsia, missing plane, Singapore” received more than 200,000 searches on Saturday, when news of the missing plane hit the internet. Performing a Google News search for “Air Asia” sorted by the most recent updates in the last 24 hours turns up news […]

A man from Indonesia is thanking his lucky stars, as well as God, having cancelled flight tickets for himself, his wife, and their three children, on AirAsia Flight QZ8501 which went missing today. The reason was that his father fell sick. As reported by the Daily Mail, Chandra Susanto, from Surabaya, in Indonesia, had booked […]

BREAKING — The Malaysia Kini has released an updated demographic list of the passengers aboard flight QZ8501. [UPDATE] #QZ8501 updated passenger list from @AirAsia latest statement. pic.twitter.com/YHT2dBd0yK — malaysiakini.com (@malaysiakini) December 28, 2014 According to the report, 157 of the passengers are Indonesian — the rest are three Koreans, one Malaysian, one Britain and one […]

Breaking News — Unfortunately, flight number QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control between its flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore. This happened minutes after 7 a.m., Sunday, December 28. There are said to be 162 total passengers aboard the plane, including the crew. AirAsia had offered this as a response at approximately 11:40 a.m., […]

AirAsia flight QZ 8501 is missing with 162 people on board. The aircraft, due to land in Singapore several hours ago, reportedly lost contact with air traffic control at 6:17 a.m. Singapore time on Sunday. BBC News reports that the plane, an Airbus 320-200, originated from the city of Surabaya in Indonesia. Transport Ministry official […]