Everything We Know About the Missing AirAsia Plane
Found on Wired on Sunday, 28 December 2014
An AirAsia passenger jet carrying 162 people to Singapore went missing off the coast of Borneo on Sunday morning shortly after leaving Indonesia, and the search has resumed after being suspended overnight. Shortly before losing contact with air traffic control, the crew sought permission to deviate from the planned flight path to avoid foul weather.
Authorities suspended the search as night fell, having found no sign of the aircraft. The search is to resume Monday morning, and CNN reported that ships in the area will stay out, rather than return to shore, with their search lights illuminated.
Eight months after MH370 disappeared, the next plane got lost. With the wonders of modern technology you can track a cellphone, but something as important as a plane still has no independent, uninterruptable sender on board to send out tracking signals.