SINGAPORE: Indonesia has accepted a Singapore offer of two teams of specialists and two sets of underwater locator beacon detectors to assist in locating the flight data recorders of a missing Indonesia AirAsia aircraft, according to a joint statement by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Authority (CAAS) of Singapore.
The four specialists, from the MOT Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), and their equipment are ready to be deployed, pending the Indonesian authorities’ activation, the statement said.
The search and rescue (SAR) operation for the missing Indoneia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 entered its second day today.
Flight QZ8501, with 162 people on board, had taken off at 5.20 am from Surabaya, Indonesia on Sunday, and was scheduled to land at Singapore’s Changi Airport at 8.30 am the same day.
It last contacted the Air Traffic Control at 7.12am Malaysian time.--Bernama