For Malaysian aviation, 2014 has been an unimaginably horrible year. Should no survivors be found among the 162 passengers and crew members aboard Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501, which disappeared on Dec. 28 morning en route to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia, carriers from Malaysia or their subsidiaries will have been involved in the world's three deadliest aviation disasters this year, according to statistics compiled by the Flight Safety Foundation, in Alexandria, Va.
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Family members of passengers onboard the missing Malaysian air carrier AirAsia flight QZ8501 attend a briefing inside the crisis-centre at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya on December 29, 2014. The AirAsia plane which went missing with 162 people on board en route for Singapore is likely at the bottom of the sea, Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency chief said.
