Part of the fuselage of crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 is seen inside a storage facility at Kumai port in Pangkalan Bun on Monday. The airliner lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather on December 28, 2014, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from the city of Surabaya to Singapore. – Reuters pic, January 21, 2015.Indonesia will not release to the public a 30-day preliminary report detailing its investigation into last month's crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 that killed 162 people, a senior transport safety official said today.The Airbus A320-200 vanished from radar screens on December 28, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from Indonesia's second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore. There were no survivors.Investigators are analysing data from the aircraft's two "black box" flight recorders to determine exactly why it crashed.Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan yesterday told a parliamentary hearing that, according to radar data, the plane had climbed faster than normal in its final minutes, after which it stalled.Investigators have not found any evidence so far that terrorism played a part in the disaster.Investigators are expected to submit a preliminary report to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) early next week. Under ICAO regulations, the preliminary report must be filed within 30 days of the date of the accident."One month after the accident we will just make a preliminary report. No comment and no analysis," Tatang Kurniadi, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Committee, told reporters."This will not be exposed to the public. This is for the consumption of those countries that are involved." – Reuters, January 21, 2015.
