Posted on 12/27/2014 7:44:11 PM PST by kristinn
An Air Asia plane travelling from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control, Indonesia's Metro TV reported on Sunday. - See more at:
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...He said the plane had asked for an unusual route before it lost contact, Reuters reported.
There are reportedly 162 people on board.
(Excerpt) Read more at straitstimes.com ...
I like it better...and a few prerecorded shows are alright on certain subjects, but Fox is overdoing it now.
The man explaining it about the ‘tops up’ to the altitude means something to how the plane reacts if that goes into the zone (52,000 he said later to correct his earlier number) which causes a freezing that would have iced the plane....my understanding? is like a funnel effect. Not that the plane went up that high, but that it was affected by it flying THROUGH the storm.
LOL. That is what happens when you report on things you do not understand...
Well this morning it seems they can’t find the pinpointed crash site from last night. Are we now back to the other disappeared plane M370? Maybe that pinpointed site is fake, because now it is delayed another day for the search.
I noted that crash site on one of these crash links, when it came over news.
These airline disasters are becoming a trend, and I wonder if that ‘tinfoil’ hat conspiracy site I keep posting isn’t onto something. I linked it for feedback and had no takers...lol
Didn’t Obama play golf a few days ago in Hawaii with some official or President from Indonesia or Malaysia?
Oy Vey is this plane crash going to dominate the news for two weeks, and it happened on a weekend again. WE better watch what ZERO is doing, this may be a distraction again.
Considering that the one last year was Malaysian, maybe anything operated locally or nationally owned in that part of the world should be avoided...
Sometimes, you cannot get from point A to point B without taking a few risks. And, sometimes, the goal is worth the risk.
#46 appears to be a middle eastern name, but rest seem to be from that area of Asia, and maybe China or Japan.
Broad Daylight.
vortex phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vile_Vortices
Stall and weather?
http://www.dephub.go.id/public/0506_001%20PAX%20AWQ8501.pdf ... a list of no-shows at bottom.
This is all too familiar.
Thanks.
Along with you and hopefully a lot of others, we’ve been watching OAN for the last 2-3 months, and like you find it an excellent network. Graham Ledger...”stop the tape”...love it!
The aircraft didn’t “just disappear.” It encountered severe weather. The pilots requested a course change to avoid the weather and started climbing. Shortly thereafter, Jakarta (Indonesia) ATC lost contact with the aircraft.
So, primary radar - if it was being monitored by Jakarta - failed to detect the aircraft, which means the aircraft did not reflect RF energy, and secondary radar did not receive a response from the plane’s transponder.
Note: I am not a pilot. I do not play one on TV. And I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
The top altitude is a measure of the power of the thunderstorm — the higher, the more-intense, with higher winds in and near the storm.
It's true that if an airliner flies just above moisture it could still pick up icing, that could even flame out an engine. GE (designed the CFM-56 engine, common on airliners) put out a bulletin on it after multiple incidents of airliners experiencing "unexplained" flameouts on oceanic routes. Ice builds up in the engine core until eventually the engine malfunctions, more often when the power is reduced (such as starting a descent) but also in cruise at steady power settings.
Here's an article about it in the WSJ:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120753185285993925
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