(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) South Korea said Monday it plans to send a surveillance plane this week to join the Indonesia-led search for an AirAsia plane that went missing a day earlier with 162 people on board, the Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency reported.
AirAsia's flight QZ8501 carrying 155 passengers and seven crew members lost contact Sunday en route to Singapore from Indonesia.
A South Korean family consisting of three members was confirmed to be on board the plane. The South Korean Foreign Ministry said it plans to send the aircraft as early as late Tuesday in a mission to support Indonesia's search and rescue operation.
The ministry added that it has been in talks with six countries to get approval for the plane to pass through their airspaces.
Media reports said that bad weather may have played a part in the plane's disappearance, given that a pilot asked flight controllers for a change of flight plan to avoid inclement weather.
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