Dec. 28: Air Asia flight QZ8501 traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore lost contact with air traffic controllers at 6:17 a.m.Dec. 30: Crash debris location was confirmed to be in the Karimata Strait, which connects the South China Sea to the Java Sea.Jan. 9: The tail of the Air Asia flight was retrieved from the Java Sea.Jan. 12: The first flight recorder was recovered by search crews.Jan. 13: The second flight recorder was recovered.Nov. 24: Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer network was hacked.Dec. 17: Sony announced it was cancelling the Christmas Day release of “The Interview.”Dec. 19: FBI confirmed North Korea orchestrated the hack.Dec. 22: North Korea’s Internet was shutdown for 10 hours by hackers.Dec. 25: 331 independent theaters released “The Interview.”Jan. 7: Masked gunmen killed 12 people in an ambush of Charlie Hebdo, and a manhunt began for the gunmen.Jan. 9: Two gunmen and four hostages were killed during a police standoff inside a kosher grocery store in Paris.Air Asia flight 8501
— An in-flight stall caused the plane to crash.— 162 people were on board the plane.— Search teams have recovered 48 bodies; 29 were identified as of Jan. 10.
Sony Hack
— “The Interview” can be streamed on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube and Xbox starting at $5.99 as of Dec. 24.— The film was played in 331 independent theaters.— $44 million was spent on making film and $35 million was spent on marketing.— The film generated $1 million in box office ticket sales on its opening day.— “The Interview” generated $15 million in online sales and rentals.
Paris Shooting
— The magazine had received threats for its history of publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.— Al-Qaida claimed responsibility of the attack on Charlie Hebdo.— The shooting sparked rallies across the world with message, “Je Suis Charlie,” meaning, “I am Charlie.”