Project ID: 38728

China Ministry of Defense sends ships and aircraft to help find AirAsia QZ8501 plane crash (linked to #39125)

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

China Ministry of Defense [Government Agency]

Recipient

Indonesia

Sector

Emergency response (Code: 720)

Flow type

Free-standing technical assistance

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2014-12-29

Actual start

2014-12-30

Description

On December 29th, 2014, China announced it would send aircraft and vessels to join the search and rescue for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501. On December 30, 2014, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense sent ships and an aircraft to assist in the search for the crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 that went missing on December 28. The search mission was led by Indonesia. The flight was scheduled to land in Singapore but crashed in the waters off Belitung island. In January 2015, China Civil Aviation Authority also sent three experts to assist in the search (see Project #39125). As of January 9th, 2015, a total of 48 bodies were found. As of January 12th, 2015, the investigation was still ongoing. On December 1st, 2015, the final report on the investigation was released, marking the completion of the provided aid.

Number of official sources

1

Number of total sources

10

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Indonesia [Government Agency]

Implementing agencies [Type]

China Ministry of Defense [Government Agency]