Holiday gone sad! AirAsia Flight enroute Singapore is Missing.

An Airbus A3 2320 AirAsia Indonesia airplane flying from Indonesia to Singapore with

162 people - 155 passengers, two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer on board has gone missing.

According to the CNN, flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control at 06:24 local time (23:24 GMT Saturday) over the Java Sea.

The plane got missing midway into the flight of more than two hours from the city of Surabaya, . There was no distress call made before its disappearance.

Though Indonesia's acting director general of transportation, said the last contact between pilot and the air traffic control was at 6.13 a.m. on Saturday) “when the pilot requested permission to deviate from its submitted flight plan route due to weather condition."

The two countries immediately launched a search and rescue operation, but there was unfortunately no sign of the plane more than seven hours after it lost contact with ground control.  The official also stated that the captain had more than 20,500 flight hours, almost 7,000 of them with AirAsia.

The passengers included 138 adults, 16 children and one infant according to a statement released by AirAsia following the disappearance of the plane.

There was vigorous thunderstorm at the time. It's been hours now since the plane went missing and there has been no update on the plane's whereabouts.

People on board include 156 Indonesians, three South Koreans, one French person, one Malaysian, one Singaporean and one British.