(Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is monitoring the situation with missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 and is prepared to assist Indonesian authorities if needed, a spokesman for the agency, which investigates major transportation accidents, said on Sunday.
The Indonesia AirAsia plane, an Airbus 320-200 carrying 155 passengers and seven crew, lost contact with air traffic control in Jakarta at 6:17 a.m. on Sunday (2317 GMT on Saturday) after pilots asked to change course to avoid bad weather during a flight from Indonesia's Surabaya city to Singapore.
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