Relatives and loved ones of the missing OZ8501 flight bound from the Indonesian city Surabaya to Singapore awaited for news in Juanda airport, Surabaya, Sunday. The Airbus A320-200 aircraft took off from Juanda International Airport at 05:35 am local time (22:30 GMT) and had requested a change in route due to weather conditions before losing communications with Indonesian Air Traffic Control (ATC). The Airbus A320-200 had 155 passengers on board with 138 adults, 16 children and one infant, along with two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer. Nationalities of the passengers and crew include one from Singapore, one from Malaysia, one from France, three from South Korea and 156 from Indonesia. AirAsia, who have changed their red logo to grey on social media sites, have publicly stated that search and rescue operations are being conducted under the guidance of the Indonesia of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Bob Hartanto Wijaya and Ruth Natalia Made who were on the missing AirAsia flight. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied
THEY were a young couple in love with bright futures, who had met at university and planned to marry.
So when Ruth Natalia Puspitasari celebrated her birthday on December 20, she was gifted a trip to Singapore with her future husband and his family.
The beautiful 26-year-old and her boyfriend — toy store owner Bob Hartanto Wijaya — are among the Indonesians on board AirAsia Flight QZ8510.
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The young couple had met at Petra Christian University in Surabaya, Indonesia — the same town their ill-fated flight had taken off from.
Bob Hartanto Wijaya and Ruth Natalia Made who were on the missing AirAsia flight. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied
But after graduating, economics student Ms Puspitasari — from East Java — had moved to Guangzhou, China while her beau, who had studied architecture, stayed behind after becoming co-owner of Eka Toys in his hometown of Malang.
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Despite the distance, the couple planned a bright future together, with Wijaya's Facebook page boasting beaming photos of the loved-up couple.
Mr Wijaya's family — including his parents and two other relatives — were also on the plane.
Ms Puspitasari's father told Indonesian media he was anxiously awaiting news about his daughter's flight.
The happy couple had plans to marry with a bright future planned. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied
Meanwhile a 12-month-old is believed to be the youngest passenger to have perished, with her Christian missionary parents, from South Korea.
Park Seong-beom, 37, his wife Lee Kyung-hwa, 36, and baby Yuna were originally from a fishing village 280 miles south of Seoul.
The young family had been living in Indonesia but were travelling to Singapore to renew their visas.
It has emerged that British businessman Choi Chi Man — who lives in Singapore but works in Indonesia for manufacturing firm Alstom Power — and his two-year-old daughter were supposed to be on an earlier flight but it was full.
Friends in the UK have told British media that the Mr Choi had only been able to secure two seats on the earlier flight, so sent his wife and son ahead and booked seats the later flight for himself and their daughter.
Family members of passengers from missing Malaysian air carrier AirAsia flight QZ8501 gather at the airport in Surabaya, East Java. Picture: AFP/ Juni Kriswanto Source: AFP
Mr Choi, who is in his 40s and grew up in Hull, north of London, was believed to be travelling to Singapore for New Year's Eve celebrations with his Singaporean wife and children.
At the Surabaya airport, passengers' relatives pored over the plane's manifest, crying and embracing. Nias Adityas, a housewife from Surabaya, was overcome with grief when she found the name of her husband, Nanang Priowidodo, on the list.
The 43-year-old tour agent had been taking a family of four on a trip to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia's Lombok island.
"He just told me, 'Praise God, this new year brings a lot of good fortune,"' Adityas recalled, while weeping.
At the Singapore Changi International Airport authorities and charities brought in counsellors and care officers to assist the next-of-kin of those who were in the missing QZ8501 flight, Sunday. Staff from Changi Airport Group, AirAsia and the Indonesia Embassy were also on scene. Flight QZ8501 was an Airbus A320-200 aircraft which took off from Juanda International Airport at 05:35 local time (22:30 GMT) from the Indonesian city Surabaya and was flying to Singapore when it requested a change in route due to weather conditions before losing communications with Indonesian Air Traffic Control (ATC). The Airbus had 155 passengers on board with 138 adults, 16 children and one infant - along with two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer. Nationalities of the passengers and crew include one from Singapore, one from Malaysia, one from France, three from South Korea and 156 from Indonesia. AirAsia, who have changed their red logo to grey on social media sites, have publicly stated that search and rescue operations are being conducted under the guidance of the Indonesia of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
A distraught bride-to-be told of how her fiance was on the missing AirAsia flight, and was meant to be enjoying his last family holiday as a bachelor, before it vanished.
Louise Sidharta, 25, told reporters at Changi International Airport in Singapore that her fiance, Indonesian entrepreneur Alain Oktavianus Siaun, 27, was on board with his parents and three brothers.
'My fiance was on that flight'
Ms Sidharta was on the way to the airport in Surabaya for the flight to Singapore, where she was supposed to join them, when she heard that AirAsia flight QZ8501 had gone missing, the Straits Times reports.
But, on arrival at the airport, she 'browsed the internet and saw the news'.
"My heart knew by then that my fiancé was on that flight."
"We have to stay positive and hope that they (loved ones) could be found soon," she said.
The couple were planning to wed in May next year.
A woman arrives at the relatives' centre at Changi Airport. She is from a maid agency and one of workers from that agency was on-board the flight. Picture: Matthew Poon Source: News Corp Australia
Nearly all the 162 AirAsia passengers and crew are Indonesians, who are frequent visitors to Singapore, particularly for holidays — one of them, Maria Florentina Widodo who graduated from University in 2012.
The plane had an Indonesian captain, Iryanto, who uses one name, and a French copilot, five cabin crew members and 155 passengers, including 16 children and one infant, the airline said in a statement.
"Papa, come home, I still need you," Angela Anggi Ranastianis, the captain's 22-year-old daughter pleaded on her Path page late Sunday, which was widely quoted by Indonesian media.
At Iryanto's house in the East Java town of Sidoarjo, neighbours, relatives and friends gathered on Monday to pray and recite the Koran to support the distraught family. Their desperate cries were so loud, they could sometimes be heard outside where three LCD televisions had been set up to monitor search developments.
"He is a good man. That's why people here appointed him as our neighbourhood chief for the last two years," said Bagianto Djoyonegoro, a friend and neighbour.
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