AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes Mario Edwards Jr Raiders Jersey , center, walks past the relatives of the passengers of AirAsia flight QZ8015 at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014. A massive sea search was underway for the AirAsia plane that disappeared Sunday while flying from Indonesia to Singapore through airspace possibly thick with dense storm clouds, strong winds and lightning Karl Joseph Raiders Jersey , officials said. (AP PhotoTrisnadi) An Indonesia Search and Rescue officer inspects the operational air navigation map during the investigation of missing Air Asia QZ8501 at the crisis centre of Juanda International Airport Surabaya on December 28, 2014 in Surabaya, Indonesia. (Robertus PudyantoGetty Images) Relatives of missing Air Asia QZ8501 passengers talk with Air Asia officers outside the crisis centre of Juanda International Airport Surabaya on December 28, 2014 in Surabaya, Indonesia. (Robertus PudyantoGetty Images)
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — The search for a missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people that disappeared more than 24 hours ago on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore resumed with first light Monday.


First Admiral Sigit Setiayana, the Naval Aviation Center commander at the Surabaya air force base, said that 12 navy ships David Sharpe Raiders Jersey , five planes, three helicopters and a number of warships were talking part, along with ships and planes from Singapore and Malaysia. The Australian Air Force also sent a search plane.


Setiaya said visibility was good. "God willing, we can find it soon," he told The Associated Press.


AirAsia Flight 8501 vanished in airspace thick with storm clouds on its way from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. Searchers had to fight against heavy rain on Sunday before work was suspended due to darkness.


The plane's disappearance and suspected crash caps an astonishingly tragic year for air travel in Southeast Asia. The Malaysia-based carrier's loss comes on top of the still-unexplained disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July over Ukraine.


At the Surabaya airport, passengers' relatives pored over the plane's manifest Eddie Vanderdoes Raiders Jersey , 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, and had been happy to get the work.


"He just told me, 'Praise God Obi Melifonwu Raiders Jersey , this new year brings a lot of good fortune,'" Adityas recalled, holding her grandson tight while weeping uncontrollably.


Nearly all the passengers and crew are Indonesians, who are frequent visitors to Singapore, particularly on holidays.


The Airbus A320 took off Sunday morning from Indonesia's second-largest city and was about halfway to Singapore when it vanished from radar. The jet had been airborne for about 42 minutes.


There was no distress signal from the twin-engine, single-aisle plane, said Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia's acting director general of transportation.


The last communication between the cockpit and air traffic control was at 6:13 a.m. (23:13 GMT Saturday) Gareon Conley Raiders Jersey , when one of the pilots "asked to avoid clouds by turning left and going higher to 34,000 feet (10,360 meters)," Murjatmodjo said. The jet was last seen on radar at 6:16 a.m. and was gone a minute later, he told reporters.


Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia launched a search-and-rescue operation near Belitung island in the Java Sea, the area where the airliner lost contact with the ground.


AirAsia group CEO Tony Fernandes flew to Surabaya and told a news conference that the focus for now should be on the search and the families rather than the cause of the incident.


"We have no idea at the moment what went wrong," said Fernandes P.J. Hall Raiders Jersey , a Malaysian businessman who founded the low-cost carrier in 2001. "Let's not speculate at the moment."


Malaysia-based AirAsia has a good safety record and had never lost a plane before.


"This is my worst nightmare," Fernandes tweeted.


But Malaysia itself has already endured a catastrophic year, with 239 people still missing from Flight 370 and all 298 people aboard Flight 17 killed when it was shot down over rebel-held territory in Ukraine.


AirAsia said Flight 8501 was on its submitted flight plan but had requested a change due to weather.


Sunardi, a forecaster at Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency, said dense storm clouds were detected up to 13,400 meters (44,000 feet) in the area at the time.


"There could have been turbulence, lightning and vertical as well as horizontal strong winds within such clouds Kolton Miller Raiders Jersey ," said Sunardi, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.


Airline pilots routinely fly around thunderstorms, said John Cox, a former accident