Rescuers Sunday evening suspended for the day their search for an AirAsia plane with 162 aboard that went missing early in the morning, Indonesia's transport ministry said. The search will resume Monday.
"Rescuers searching for a missing AirAsia plane with 162 aboard over the Java Sea suspended their operation at nightfall Sunday," an official with Indonesia's transport ministry was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
The aircraft took off at 5.20 a.m. (local time) from the Indonesian city of Surabaya and was to land at Singapore's Changi Airport at 8.30 a.m., the Malaysian-owned airline and officials said.
