A flight attendant aboard the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 had reportedly posted a series of tweets about the ill-fated Malaysia Airline flights MH370 and MH17 earlier this year.
According to News.com.au, Oscar Desano is listed as a flight attendant on board the AirAsia flight, which lost contact with air control between Indonesia and Singapore.
The plane bound to Singapore from Indonesia with 155 passengers and six crew aboard disappeared after losing contact with an Indonesian air traffic tower on Sunday.
The flight attendant had tweeted on Christmas saying "Merry Christmas to all my beautiful friends who celebrate it".
Soon after the MH17 downing, he wrote on his Twitter account on July 18 that he felt truly sorry for the loss of MH17 by Malaysia Airlines and offered his condolences to the passengers' family.
On March 8, following the disappearance of MH370, Desano wrote in his tweet "pray for Malaysia Airlines flight number MH370 Boeing 777-200 bound for Beijing, who have lost contact."
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Meanwhile, a leaked, and yet unconfirmed air traffic control sheet, shared by pilots on Airlines.Net, showed the A320 continuing to climb through 36,000 feet, but only registering a speed of 353 knots, the report said.
AirAsia Indonesia confirmed that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with ATC at 07:24 (Surabaya LT).
A statement released by Air Asia informed that nationalities of passengers and crew onboard included one from Singapore, one from Malaysia, three from South Korea and 157 from Indonesia.
The statement further said that search and rescue operations are being conducted under the guidance of The Indonesia of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).