AirAsia flight climbed quickly, then stalled before crash, reports say

Then the plane stalled, Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan said at a parliamentary hearing, according to the AFP and Reuters news agencies.

“The plane, during the last minutes, went up faster than normal speed … after then, it stalled. That is according to the data from the radar,” Jonan said, according to the news agencies.

CNN’s Jethro Mullen contributed to this report.

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