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Coming up on this Monday edition of Day Break,.. the search for the missing AirAsia passenger jet resumes at first light after the plane... carrying more than 160 people... vanished from radar early Sunday.
Italy′s Defense Ministry says 192 of the nearly 500 people on the burning Norman Atlantic ferry in the Adriatic Sea have been rescued. Hundreds more remain trapped onboard the stricken vessel.
Plus,.... South Korea, the U.S. and Japan will sign a trilateral intelligence-sharing agreement on Monday to better cope with North Korea′s increasing military threats. Day Break begins now.
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Title: Search for missing AirAsia flight to resume at first light
Our top story this morning...
The search for the missing AirAsia flight... that vanished with 162 people on board... will resume in the coming hours.
The Airbus flight QZ8501 took off from Indonesia for Singapore on Sunday but lost all contact with air traffic control during bad weather over the Java Sea.
Connie Lee has the details. Search operations are about to resume again, at the break of light on Monday... for any sign of missing AirAsia Flight 8501.
Indonesia′s National Rescue Agency says seven ships and two helicopters will start search operations in the area the plane is thought to have gone down.
The search had to be called off on Sunday as night fell.
At a news conference, AirAsia′s Chief Executive.... said the plane disappeared in bad weather, but said no conclusion can be made yet as to what happened.
"We are very devastated about what′s happened, it′s unbelievable. But we do not know what′s happened yet.../ The weather conditions were not good, but further than that we don′t really want to speculate." [7113]
Air traffic control officials say the plane went missing Sunday at 7:24 A-M, local time,... after one of the pilots had requested to fly at a higher altitude to avoid storm clouds.
The AirAsia flight 8501... was flying from the Indonesian city of Surabaya... to Singapore, when it went missing... with 162 passengers on board.
Of the people on board, most of them were Indonesian,... with one British, Malaysian and Singaporean passenger, and three people from Korea.
According to Korea′s foreign ministry.... the Korean nationals are a couple in their 30′s, and their 11-month-old daughter.
At a makeshift crisis center in Indonesia′s Surabaya airport, more than 100 distraught relatives, wait for news of their loved ones.
"We are very surprised and very sad. Our grandchild was going to Singapore for a holiday, but the accident happened."
AirAsia is a Malaysia-based, budget airline... and has not had a crash since it started operating in 2002.
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