Relatives wait for flight updates

Changi Airport makes arrangements for friends, relatives of passengers

Some of the relatives and friends of affected passengers aboard the missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 arrived at the designated relatives' area at Singapore's Changi Airport for updates on Sunday.

The relatives started to show up at a specially designated area for families and friends of the passengers in the airport's Terminal 2 around noon. Changi Airport Group said in the evening that 47 relatives and friends of 57 passengers aboard the missing flight had registered for help at the airport.