AirAsia confirmed in the morning that an Airbus A320-200 aircraft from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore lost contact with the tower. AirAsia Malaysia's headquarters issued a statement through a social networking website saying that AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 was missing from Indonesian aviation control personnel at 7:24 Sunday (December 28). The picture shows a Chinese-born person named Cai on the plane. He graduated from the University of Essex and is the general manager of an Indonesian energy company. According to the BBC, news from the British Foreign Ministry on the 28th confirmed that one of the 162 people on AirAsia QZ8501 was a British man named Choi Chi Man. The British Foreign Office said it had notified the relatives of the British passenger. Relevant Chinese government authorities have confirmed that there are no Chinese passengers on board.
AirAsia said there were 155 passengers and 7 crew members on the missing passenger plane, totaling 162 people. Authorities said that the plane did not send any distress signals before it was lost.
