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No significant result has been found in the second-day search for the missing AirAsia QZ8501 Flight on Monday, said spokesperson Sutono for Indonesia's center of command for search operations.
All efforts to locate the missing plane would be proceeded in the following days, Sutono said on the sidelines of a teleconference with Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
Asked on findings of alleged debris of QZ8501 near the Nangka Island in the Java Sea by an Australian AP-3C Orion plane and spotted oil slick and debris off the eastern Belitung Island, Sutono said that there has been no credible evidence to confirm those reports.
"We will survey them again tomorrow. The search would still be conducted from sunrise to dusk. We have seven days to search for the plane, which could be extended depending on developments of search operations," Sutono, a senior official of the Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), told Xinhua.
The center, set up in the Pangkalpinang airport premises, supervises the joint international search for the missing plane, focusing on waters between Bangka Belitung and West Kalimantan provinces and the Karimata Strait.
Singapore, Malaysia and Australia have sent planes and vessels to join in the search operation, and a South Korean AP-3C Orion plane is scheduled to arrive on Tuesday.
Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi received calls on Monday from her colleagues from France and India who offered assistance in the search efforts.
AirAsia flight QZ8501 was reported to have lost contact with the Indonesian air traffic control en route to Singapore from Indonesia's Surabaya on Sunday morning.
The pilot was reported to deviate from flight track due to bad weather and asked to bank left and climb up to 38,000 feet from 32, 000 feet. The plane went missing after the pilot requested the flight deviation.
The ill-fated plane carried 162 people, including 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans, and one person each from Malaysia, Singapore, Britain and France. Enditem
