CRI听力:Search for Missing AirAsia Plane Resumes

It's being reported a person from Hong Kong is among the 162 people aboard the AirAsia flight which disappeared on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore.

The passenger is said to be a foreign passport holder with Hong Kong residency.

Meanwhile, an Australian military aircraft is said to have spotted a series of objects floating in the search area.

It's still not known whether the debris is connected to the missing plane.

Indonesian authorities have also announced plans to review AirAisa's Indonesian operations.

Indonesian Transport Minister Ignatius Jonan.

"We will do a review of AirAsia operations in Indonesia to make sure all AirAsia activities get better in the future."

Indonesian officials are on-record saying they believe the Airbus A320 is likely at the bottom of the sea.

The jetliner disappeared Sunday morning after the pilot requested a course change to avoid bad weather.

The flight was headed to Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya.

Chinese authorities have offered to help in the search.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying:

"China has already told Indonesia that we are ready to send out vessels and aircrafts to join the search mission. We are also willing to provide other assistance as needed. We are now in a close contact with Indonesian authorities."

Search teams are still attempting to gain a signal from the airplane's Emergency Locator Transmitter.

The device is supposed to become active in the case of a crash.

Professor Huang Jun with Beihang University says there are reasons why a plane's emergency locator might not have been activated.

"First, the signal could be out of the reach of the search vessels. There are limits to how far the signal can transmit. The second possibility is that the signal is blocked by other objects. The other possibility is that the power to the transmitter is off."

Relatives of passengers aboard the missing flight are huddled at a crisis center in Surabaya.

Sunu Widyatmoko is the chief executive of AirAsia Indonesia.

"Our focus now for AirAsia is to help and to support the next of kin of passengers and also our crew to go through this very very difficult times."

AirAsia's track record has been perfect until this point, with no major accidents since it began operations in 2002.