AirAsia plane 'climbed too fast', Minister reports

An AirAsia plane that crashed last month with 162 people on board was climbing at an abnormally high rate, then plunged and suddenly disappeared from radar, Indonesia’s transport minister has said.

Ignasius Jonan told the Indonesian parliament that radar data showed the Airbus A320 was climbing at about 6,000ft (1.82km) a minute before it disappeared on Dec. 28.