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AirAsia plane rose to unauthorized altitude minutes before crash

AirAsia Flight 8501 climbed to an unauthorized altitude fast and steep before the aircraft fell into the ocean, Indonesian investigators said in their first description of the last moments of the ill-fated plane.

By Herdaru Purnomo, Bloomberg, Kyunghee Park, Bloomberg | Updated on January 29, 2015
Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee chief Tatang Kurniadi speaks with a model plane of AirAsia Flight 8501 that crashed into the Java Sea during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia on Jan. 29. Indonesian investigators announced the co-pilot of the AirAsia jet was in controls when he struggled to recover the aircraft as stall warnings sounded. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

(Bloomberg) — AirAsia Bhd. Flight 8501 climbed to an unauthorized altitude fast and steep before the aircraft fell into the ocean, Indonesian investigators said in their first description of the last moments of the ill-fated plane.

From a cruising altitude of 32,000 feet, the Airbus Group NV A320 plane ascended to 37,400 feet in 30 seconds as pilots probably tried to avoid bad weather, Ertata Lananggalih, an investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee, said in Jakarta on Thursday. The aircraft then descended slowly for three minutes before it disappeared, he said.

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