The tragic moment for Airasia flight QZ 8501
This is the most tragic moment before the new year.
AirAsia Indonesia has officially confirmed the report from The National Search and Rescue Agency Republic of Indonesia (BASARNAS) yesterday that the debris from the wreckage of Airasia flight QZ 8501 had been found in Java Sea. This confirmed also the plane has crashed into the Karimata Strait, 110 nautical miles south west from Pangkalan Bun, in between the Indonesia and Singapore territorial waters, and before its scheduled destination of Changi International Airport, Singapore.
Losing contact with air traffic control soon after take off from Surabaya Indonesia on the morning of 28th December 2014, the Airbus A320-200 carrier had 155 passengers on board, with 137 adults, 17 children and 1 infant. Also on board were 2 pilots, 4 cabin crews and one engineer.
Until this morning, a total of 7 bodies of those passengers had been found on the sea. The crashed aircraft had also been detected 24 m underwater. Check out the Airasia website for the latest updates.
What had happened to Malaysia? Though Airasia Indoenesia is an Indonesian low cost carrier, it is still associated to Airasia which holds 49% share of the company. Together with the MAS flights MH 370 and MH 17 tragedies, this is the third air fatal accidents happened this year to Malaysian airlines!
The darkest moment of our lives, just a day before new year, this is the worst year end I had ever passed through since Tsunami 2004. We have absolutely no reason to celebrate the new year countdown tonight, do we?
That said, we eagerly hope that our new year wishes could come true in no time. We as frequent air travellers deeply wish that New Year 2015 could bring us better lives, less tragedies, no war and off course a safer world to live in and to travel around.
Tens of thousand of flights taking off and touching down each day and air accident probabilities are still the lowest among other public transportation. But it still hurts whenever air accidents took hundreds of lives away.
Do you still fly?
I will not celebrate the new year countdown but hope for a much better year coming. A better New Year. – Travel Feeder
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Cecil Lee
The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.
