Breaking News: SEARCH RESUMES FOR MISSING AIRASIA FLIGHT

 The search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 resumed in Indonesia on Monday, a journalist embedded on a military search plane for Indonesia's tvOne network reports.
Planes are once again hovering above the water, tvOne reported, a day after the plane disappeared in Indonesian airspace with 162 people aboard.
Seven ships and two helicopters were also set to start searching for the plane at daybreak, Indonesia's National Rescue Agency said. More details after the cut

It's unclear if weather played a role in the aircraft's disappearance, but rescuers say it could be a factor that influences how quickly they find the plane.
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Large waves and clouds hampered the search for the plane on Sunday, the agency said.
Authorities say they plan to divide what they called a "very broad search area" into four sections of 120 by 240 nautical miles.
AirAsia says it lost contact with the aircraft at 7:24 a.m. Sunday Singapore time (6:24 a.m. in Indonesia).
The missing plane, flying from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, went missing as it flew over the Java Sea between the islands of Belitung and Borneo -- a heavily traveled shipping channel with shallow waters, according to Indonesian authorities, who are leading the search and rescue operations.
Before the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers, one of the pilots asked to fly at a higher altitude because of bad weather, officials said. 

culled from CNN