The missing AirAsia flight is the third major air incident connected to Malaysia this year.
AirAsia is a regional low-cost airline founded in 2001 by Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes, chairman of Premier League football side Queens Park Rangers.
The firm - based in Kuala Lumpur - has a good safety track record and has never lost a plane before.
But Malaysia has already suffered two aviation disasters this year.
:: MH370
In March Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing soon after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board - 153 of them Chinese.
The wreckage of the plane has never been found, and furious relatives hit out as an international effort combed the seas for clues about where the jet could have gone.
Experts say the investigation into what happened cannot move on until wreckage and black boxes are recovered.
In October Malaysia's defence minister told Sky News he is "99.9% sure" the sonar technology will find the doomed jet.
:: MH17
In July Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine while on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
All 298 people on board were killed, including 10 British citizens.
An investigation into the crash is under way in the Netherlands, which lost 193 people in the crash.
The disaster has been blamed on pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine.
An initial report by the Dutch Safety Board in September said that the aircraft was downed by "a large number of high-energy objects".
The report added that the plane broke up in the air as a result of "structural damage", caused by the items which "penetrated the aircraft from outside", consistent with the claims it had been hit by a ground-to-air missile.
After Flight 370 went missing, Mr Fernandes caused controversy by incorrectly tweeting that it had landed safely.
Since the AirAsia plane went missing, the businessman has been active on Twitter.
He used his account to post links to company statements, adding: "Thank you for all your thoughts and prays. We must stay strong.
"On my way to Surabaya where most of the passengers are from as with my Indonesian management. Providing information as we get it."
His firm has dominated low-cost travel in the region for years, flying short routes to connect large cities in Southeast Asia.
Recently it has tried to expand into long-distance flying through its sister airline AirAsia X.
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