Posted on 12/28/2014 7:30:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Several hours of searching Indonesian waters turned up no sign of an AirAsia plane that disappeared Sunday with 162 people on board in airspace possibly thick with dense storm clouds, strong winds and lightning, officials said.
Aircraft searching for AirAsia Flight 8501 called off the effort for the night and will resume at Monday morning, said Achmad Toha of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency. Some ships were continuing the search overnight, he said.
The plane took off Sunday morning from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, and was about halfway to its destination, Singapore, when it vanished from radar.
The last communication between the pilot and air traffic control was at 6:13 a.m. (2313 GMT Saturday), when the pilot “asked to avoid clouds by turning left and going higher to 34,000 feet (10,360 metres).” It was last seen on radar at 6:16 a.m., and a minute later was no longer there, Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia’s acting director general of transportation, told reporters.
More than 12 hours later, shocked family members huddled at the Surabaya airport from where the Airbus A320 had taken off, awaiting any news of the jetliner, operated by an airline whose parent company is based in Malaysia. It is the third major aviation incident involving Malaysia this year: in March, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people, and in July, a jet from the same airline was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard.
Indonesia and Singapore launched a search and rescue operation for Flight 8501 near Belitung island in Java Sea, the area where the jetliner lost contact with ground traffic control about 42 minutes after taking off from Surabaya.
"Authorities had not, by the end of the day Sunday, detected the distress signal and beacon that would be activated in an accident."
So again, no mayday, no distress call, no crash, just POOF and a similar rise in altitude.
Check the passenger manifest. If there's a muzzie listed, you know what happened to the plane
Indonesia is mostly Muslim, so it’s a good bet most aboard were Muslim. I feel sorry ONLY for any non-Muslims aboard. Fewer Muslims in the world is always a good thing-whether due to their death-cult religion or weather. Stay the hell out of Muslim countries and off any transportation run by them.
American Airlines Flight 587, operated by an Airbus A300-600R, leaves John F. Kennedy Airport for Santo Domingo. Shortly after take-off, the A300 encounters wake turbulence from a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 that has taken off from the same runway 30 seconds earlier, causing it to roll violently about its lateral axis.
The handling pilot attempts to stabilize the airliner by applying firm rudder, but this is so extreme that it overstresses the attachments between the fuselage and the vertical stabilizer (or ‘fin’), causing them to fail.
The entire fin then breaks away. Without the fin to give it lateral stability, the aircraft rolls out of control and crashes into Rockaway, Queens, killing all 260 people on board and five on the ground.
LOL
The NTSB was saying it wasn’t terror related the SAME day it crashed.
You are spouting disinformation.
http://www.rense.com/general16/feds.htm
K, thanks. Right manufacturer, wrong model.
This seems very similar to the crash last summer in Mali. Aircraft disappears off radar in bad weather without contacting ground control.
http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2014/ec-v140724.e1.en/pdf/ec-v140724.e1.en.pdf
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