JAKARTA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia said here Tuesday that the crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 climbed at an abnormally high rate and plunged suddenly before disappearing from radar.
Addressing the Parliament, Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan said " it is not normal to climb like that. It is very rare for commercial planes which normally climb just 1,000 to 2,000 feet per minute."
"It can only be done by a fighter jet," the transport minister added.
What caused the flight to climb too fast remained unknown now.
Flight QZ8501, with 162 people onboard, plummeted into the Java Sea near the Karimata Strait during its journey from Surabaya to Singapore on Dec. 28.
The flight data and cockpit voice recorders, known as black boxes, have been recovered and they are vital to determining the cause of the crash.
JAKARTA, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- After more than two weeks of joint operation to search debris and bodies from the crashed AirAsia plane, its fuselage was detected at the bottom of Java Sea on Wednesday by the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) from a Singaporean navy ship. Full story
JAKARTA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua)-- The cockpit voice recorder of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 was retrieved on Tuesday from sea and was on board an Indonesian navy ship bound for capital Jakarta for analysis, local press reported.
The black box was detected and lifted from the sea near the location where the flight data recorder was retrieved a day ago. Full story
JAKARTA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua)-- Indonesia is gearing up to open and investigate the black box of the crashed AirAsia airliner at home carried out by government-sanctioned National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) as the flight data recorder was managed to be recovered on Monday in an operation carried out by divers from Indonesian navy. Full story
