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AsiaAir crash victim was wearing life jacket: Indonesian official

A body recovered on Wednesday from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an Indonesian search and rescue official said, raising new questions about how the disaster unfolded....

AsiaAir owner bought company for less than a buck

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — His airline empire began, Tony Fernandes likes to say, with the purchase of a bankrupt company for less than a dollar. Now, after years of growth...

Bodies, plane debris found near AirAsia disappearance site

Dozens of bodies were recovered from Indonesian waters Tuesday -- two days after a doomed AirAsia jetliner crashed with 162 people aboard, leaving anguished relatives prepared for the worst while...

Floating debris linked to missing AirAsia plane

Several pieces of debris linked to the missing AirAsia jetliner were spotted floating in the Java Sea off Borneo on Tuesday. The crew of an Indonesian military aircraft noticed white,...

Transcript reveals missing AirAsia flight's last moments

The fate of the second Malaysian jetliner to go missing this year may boil down to a crucial two-minute delay in letting its pilot climb to a higher altitude. A...

'Goodbye forever': AirAsia passenger's final text to relative

A man who had a lucky escape after cancelling his flight aboard the missing AirAsia jet wept as he recounted his conversation with one of the passengers shortly before the...

Oily spots, objects found in search for AirAsia flight

Aircraft searching for the missing AirAsia airliner spotted two oily spots and some objects in the Java Sea on Monday — but it was unclear whether they were from the Airbus...

Pilot's request to climb nixed before AirAsia plane vanished

A second Malaysian airliner mysteriously vanished in the skies over Southeast Asia’s “Devil’s Sea’’ after a controller refused the captain’s request for a change of course and altitude, according to...

Missing AirAsia plane likely 'at bottom of sea'

A missing AirAsia plane carrying 162 people is presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official said on Monday, as countries in the region offered to help Jakarta...

Search continues for missing flight with 162 aboard

Aircraft and ships that spent several hours searching Indonesian waters turned up no sign of an AirAsia plane that disappeared Sunday with 162 people on board in airspace possibly thick...