Jakarta - An object spotted during a sea search
for an AirAsia plane was not from the aircraft, Indonesian Vice
President Jusuf Kalla said on Monday after reports that an Australian
surveillance aircraft had found something.
"It
has been checked and no sufficient evidence was found to confirm what
was reported," Kalla told a press conference at Surabaya airport from
where the ill-fated plane departed.
Australia,
Singapore and Malaysia have deployed planes and ships to assist in the
Indonesian search for Flight QZ8501, which disappeared over the Java Sea
on Sunday en route to Singapore.
Vanished
AirAsia Flight 8501 vanished on Sunday in airspace thick with storm clouds on its way from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore.
On Monday, a rescue official said that given the route of the plane he believed the most likely scenario was that it crashed.
"Based
on the co-ordinates that we know, the evaluation would be that any
estimated crash position is in the sea, and that the hypothesis is the
plane is at the bottom of the sea," National Search and Rescue chief
Henry Bambang Soelistyo told a news conference.
The plane's disappearance and suspected crash caps an astonishingly tragic year for air travel in South-east Asia.
The
Malaysia-based carrier's loss comes on top of the still-unexplained
disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March and the downing
of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July over Ukraine.
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