AirAsia flight ‘should not have been in the air’ the day it crashed, says Indonesia

AirAsia’s license in Indonesia may be revoked because its downed flight had no permission to be in the air last Sunday. Djoko Muratmodjo, acting general director for air navigation in the transport ministry said on Saturday he would launch an investigation into all AirAsia flight schedules. The transport ministry on Friday temporarily suspended Indonesia AirAsia’s Surabaya-Singapore flights because it had apparently operated the service beyond the scope of its licence, which permitted flights on four days of the week but not Sundays, when the crash occurred.

We are going to investigate. We won’t focus on licences, just schedules.

National Search and Rescue Agency Director of Operations Suryadi B. Supriyadi

Search teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet that crashed with 162 people on board have found four large parts of the plane on the sea bed, the head of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said on Saturday. A multi-national task force of ships, planes and helicopters have been scouring the northern Java Sea and coastline of southern Borneo to recover the bodies of victims and locate the wreck of Flight QZ8501 and its black box flight recorders.

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