AirAsia flight attendant's eerie tweets
A flight attendant on board a missing AirAsia flight tweeted messages of support for Malaysia Airlines during the tragic disappearances of two planes earlier in the year.
AirAsia flight QZ8501 from Indonesia to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control at 7:24am local time after it requested an unusual flight route, possibly due to bad weather.
In eerie messages tweeted earlier in the year, AirAsia flight attendant Oscar Desano expressed his condolences for those affected by the disappearances of flights MH17 and MH370 - including the airline employees.
He tweeted: "I feel truly sorry for the loss of MH17 by Malaysia Airlines. It’s been 2 big catastrophic event for MAS in 1 year" on July 17.
Pray for Malaysia Airlines flight number MH370 Boeing 777-200 bound for Beijing, who have lost contact… [pic] — https://t.co/QWnj40D6aK
— Oscar Desano (@ochanky) March 8, 2014
I feel trully sorry for the lost of MH17 by Malaysia Airlines 😢 it's been 2 big catastrophe event for MAS in 1… — https://t.co/iKnHt59kG5
— Oscar Desano (@ochanky) July 17, 2014
“My deep condolences also for the (passengers’) family, may all the casualties rest in peace..."
“Hope everything will be OK also for the internal company of Malaysia Airlines... Amiiinnn...”
On March 8th, he tweeted:
“Pray for Malaysia Airlines flight number MH370 Boeing 777-200 bound for Beijing, who have lost contact...”
AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact at 07:24hrs this morning http://t.co/WomRQuzcPO
— AirAsia (@AirAsia) December 28, 2014
Mr Desano has uploaded a number of social media posts about his apparent career with AirAsia, including photos of his name tag and a photo himself wearing what appears to be an AirAsia uniform with the caption 'The new me' in September 2011.
AirAsia flight QZ8501 departed Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia, at 5:35am on Sunday morning.
There were 155 passengers on board, including 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant. Also on board were two pilots and five cabin crew, the airline confirmed.
Families of the passengers listed in the flight manifest anxiously awaited more information as the search continued into a third day.
Nationalities of passengers include 156 people from Indonesia, three people from South Korea, one person each from France, Malaysia and Singapore.
The aircraft had undergone its last scheduled maintenance on 16 November 2014, according to the statement.
The flight distance from Surabaya to Singapore is 1379km. It normally takes 1 hour and 50 minutes.
The incident comes at the end of a disastrous year for Malaysia's airlines.
National flag carrier Malaysia Airlines lost two aircraft this year.
Its flight MH370 went missing on March 8th on a trip from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board.
On July 17, Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
Debris has been found in the search for the missing flight as the mission to recover passengers and investigate the tragedy continues.
