Reports: Air traffic controllers lose contact with AirAsia flight from Indonesia to Singapore

Several news agencies are reporting Saturday night that AirAsia flight QZ 8501, traveling from Indonesia to Singapore, is missing.

An AirAsia flight from Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic controllers, according to local media http://t.co/S7EVfhJrzY

— Anthony DeRosa? (@Anthony) December 28, 2014

#BREAKING AirAsia flight from Indonesia to Singapore missing: airline

— AFP news agency (@AFP) December 28, 2014

Reuters Wire:
AIR ASIA FLIGHT FROM INDONESIA'S SURABAYA TO SINGAPORE LOSES
CONTACT WITH AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL – INDONESIAN NEWS CHANNEL

— Chris Jansing (@ChrisJansing) December 28, 2014

BREAKING NEWS: #AirAsia #QZ8501 took off from Surabaya on Sunday morning; lost contact in Indonesian airspace around 0710: MetroTV

— ST Foreign Desk (@STForeignDesk) December 28, 2014

BREAKING: AirAsia plane traveling from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 on board missing, local media report

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 28, 2014

https://twitter.com/passantino/status/549046521308528640

This –> @ABC: Rescue agency: Reports received that AirAsia flight from Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact: http://t.co/XGaJTdse0O

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) December 28, 2014

https://twitter.com/traciglee/status/549046608600387584

Reuters quotes Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa as saying that “the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact.”

AirAsia Flight loses contact with 155 PEOPLE ON BOARD – INDONESIAN TRANSPORT OFFICIAL per Rueters

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) December 28, 2014

Good grief what is the deal with flights in that area?

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) December 28, 2014

https://twitter.com/PaulNBlake/status/549050708801380352

https://twitter.com/Circa/status/549049918812606464

Hoping for the most innocuous of reasons for that AirAsia flight losing contact.

— Daryl Sng (@dsng) December 28, 2014

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Indonesia AirAsia #QZ8501 has gone missing. Flightradar24 picked up last signal 23:12 UTChttp://t.co/OLdvN7xQfr pic.twitter.com/p8yH3Ws4Zi

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) December 28, 2014

Satellite image around time #AirAsia flight went missing, vigorous thunderstorms near Surabaya pic.twitter.com/4KGLLK9Br6 via @EarthUncutTV

— Agnès Bun 黃瑩燕 (@AgnesBun) December 28, 2014

Twitchy will monitor the situation and update as details become available.