(Bloomberg) — An AirAsia Bhd. plane with 155 passengers and seven crew on board a flight to Singapore has gone missing for almost a day, prompting a multi-nation search across the seas surrounding Indonesia.
A 10-hour search through Asia's day found no sign of the Airbus Group NV A320 single-aisle jet that was on a commercial flight from Surabaya, Indonesia, when it went off radar. Indonesian authorities suspended the hunt due to darkness.
“We're devastated, but we don't know what's happened yet,” Chief Executive Officer Tony Fernandes of the Malaysia-based AirAsia Group said at a press conference in Surabaya, broadcast live on TVOne. “The weather conditions weren't good; there were storm clouds. The pilot had made a request to change altitude.”
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