TV: Plane with 162 aboard missing in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's MetroTV station is reporting that an AirAsia plane with 162 people aboard is missing after takeoff from Indonesia on the way to Singapore.
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The News reports that firefighters were alerted to the blaze by an unusual report from a Dallas Fire-Rescue dispatcher:
"Got a rather tall cowboy with all his clothes burned off," the dispatcher said over the radio, according to the newspaper.

WFAA-TV says the structure was originally created as Santa Claus and was bought by the State Fair for $750 to become the hulking cowboy.
Bill Bragg, who provided Big Tex's voice live for the past 10 years from a nearby trailer, tells the News he was reading from his script and didn't see the fire until he glanced up. "He went down talking," Bragg, who watched with tears in his eyes, tells the News.
Mitchell Glieber, vice president of marketing for the fair, says it was likely an electrical short circuit in Big Tex's vocal equipment that caused the blaze.
"There's obviously some electronics inside of Big Tex that leads to the ability for his mouth to move when he speaks," Glieber tells WFAA-TV. "I believe there was an electrical short, but that hasn't been confirmed or investigated."