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The AirAsia flight which crashed in the Java Sea with the loss of 162 lives had climbed too fast before stalling, Indonesia's transport minister said. Ignasius Jonan told a parliamentary hearing in Jakarta that flight QZ8501 had ascended at a speed of 6,000ft (1,828m) per minute.

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