AirNav revealed seven aircrafts flyign nearby the missing AirAsia QZ 8501 Sunday morning. They didn’t report any cumulonimbus clouds, which might have hit QZ 8501.
Wisnu Darjono, director of safety and standard of AirNav Indonesia, said three other aircrafts were flying in the same direction with QZ 8501. They are:
1/ Uni Emirates Arab Flight Number 406 from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur (flying at 36,000 feet)
2/ AirAsia 502 from Denpasar (Bali) to Singapore (38,000 feet)
3/ AirAsia 550 from Denpasar (Bali) to Kuala Lumpur (34,000 feet)
Three other aircrafts were flying on the opposite direction, while another one was on a different route.
AirAsia QZ 8501 was flying at 32,000 feet before went missing.
“Seven other aircrafts in the same route didn’t report the existence of such (cumulonimbus) cloud,” Wisnu added.