Times Strait reports:
JAKARTA - Indonesia's transport ministry has ordered airport authorities to take action against staff who allowed Indonesia AirAsia to fly outside its approved schedule.
This comes after the ministry said the airline was not allowed to fly the Surabaya-Singapore route on Sunday. The missing flight QZ8501 had taken off on a Sunday.
"We issued orders to them to move these staff from a position related to flight operations," Djoko Murjatmodjo, acting director general of air transportation, said on Monday.
If there were staff from the transport ministry who were also involved, the ministry will take action against them, he added.
"Investigation is ongoing now. We won't apply a double standard stance. We wont discriminate."
The transport ministry is currently checking the airline's flight schedule to see if they match the airline's permits or agreements, he said.
Additional report on Strait Times:
“....The Basarnas chief said five vessels with the ability to locate black boxes would be deployed on Monday.
On Sunday, the search fleet included six fixed wing planes (four from Indonesia, one each from South Korea and Russia), 14 helicopters (10 from indonesia, two from Singapore and two from the US) and 27 ships (16 from Indonesia including two tankers to help with logistics and fuel, four from Singapore, three from Malaysia, two from the US and two from Japan).
KRI Bung Tomo, the main Indonesian vessel that had helped with sonar detection work, was sent home and was replaced by two vessels on Sunday: KRI Usman Harun and KRI Frans Kaisepo, which also have sonar beaming equipment, he said...."