Posted on 10/28/2018 8:04:14 PM PDT by PghBaldy
A Lion Air flight between Jakarta and an island off Sumatra has crashed, Indonesian search and rescue officials have said.
A search and rescue effort has been launched after the passenger jet lost contact 13 minutes after takeoff on Monday morning.
The Boeing 737-800 left the Indonesian capital at 6.20am and was headed north to arrive in Pangkal Pinang, on the island of Bangka, at
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Usually those dawn launches from Jakarta dont encounter thunder storms. Plus they dont have many former military pilots to fly commercial.
The 737-800 series is a fairly new plane, probably mot due to an aging airframe. Maintenance from some of the foreign air carriers is notoriously skimpy, though.
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That aircraft will fly most happily on one engine. I notice no calls of distress from the aircraft. Answer = catastrophic in flight failure or bomb, thus no calls of distress. A bomb is a catastrophic in flight failure.
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In the North Sea we lost two Sikorsky 61s due to catastrophic in flight failure. No distress call but they just went down. All perished. The S61 is a fine Helicopter. In subsequent investigations it was determined that the swash plate was improperly annealed and disintegrated in flight which made the craft doomed in an instant. It was not even Sirkorsky’s fault as it was a subcontractor that made the plate. However, Sikorsky paid as it was their chopper.
By the plot the airplane lost 1200 feet in 10 seconds, gaining 23 knots, from 4850’ to 3650’.
1200 feet in 10 seconds is 7200 feet/minute (probably more in the latter seconds considering the time it takes to push over). At that speed, that’s about 12 degrees nose-down, a very unusual descent profile that close to the water.
That’s not consistent with an engine failure, or dual flameout due to fuel contamination.
But it is consistent with a deliberate push-over toward the water, or a major flight control malfunction, or perhaps crew incapacitation due to an explosion, etc.
This one will be resolved quickly — crashed in shallow water so the black boxes will be recovered soon.
Did somebody on that flight know something about the campaign financing of the Clintons from the 1990s? Or the youth of “Bath-House Barry?
At least 20 employees from Indonesia's finance ministry were on board, the BBC has learned.
A spokesperson for Indonesia's finance ministry Nufransa Wira Sakti said they worked at the finance ministry offices in Pangkal Pinang but had been in Jakarta for the weekend. They routinely took this flight.
Also, a map, that part of the world, I get lost.
Oh, boy...
1MDB related...?
Saya turut berdukacita dan bedoa supaya keluarganya dan teman-teman menerima dukunang dan kekuatan dari Tuhan Kita.
I join in mourning and pray that family and friends receive support and strength from Our God. (Don’t blindly assume everyone on board were muslims.)
Curious why this is posted in General Chat and not News or Breaking News.
Reuters:
The pilot had asked to return to base (RTB) after the plane took off from Jakarta. It lost contact with ground staff after 13 minutes.
Its correct that an RTB was requested and had been approved but were still trying to figure out the reason, Soerjanto Tjahjono, head of Indonesias transport safety committee, told reporters, referring to the pilots request
Reuters::
Edward Sirait, chief executive of Lion Air Group, told reporters the aircraft had had a technical problem on a flight from the resort island of Bali to Jakarta but it had been resolved according to procedure.
Sirait declined to specify the nature of the issue but said none of its other aircraft of that model had the same problem. Lion had operated 11 Boeing 737 MAX 8s and it had no plan to ground the rest of them, he said.
There are reports in Indonesian media that the plane had experienced a “technical problem” on a previous flight, and that the problem had been “resolved”.
FWIW, I wouldn’t believe anything coming out of the Indonesian government or their media at the moment.
I’m really wondering if there’s a 1MDB tie-in.
Reuters:
The flight took off in clear weather at around 6.20 a.m. and was due to have landed in Pangkal Pinang at 7.20 a.m.
I thought it could be a wrestle for the controls between the pilot/co-pilot based on the up down. Maybe a gay pilot suicide again... but reports are “unreliable airspeed” which could be a bug in the pitot probe.
Unreliable airspeed + inexperienced pilot, usually = crash.
Reuters:
Data from FlightRadar24 shows the first sign of something amiss was around two minutes into the flight, when the plane had reached 2,000 feet (610 m).
It descended more than 500 feet (152 m) and veered to the left before climbing again to 5,000 feet (1,524 m), where it stayed during most of the rest of the flight.
It began gaining speed in the final moments and reached 345 knots (397 mph) before data was lost when it was at 3,650 feet (1,113 m).
Moslem air crew?
My first guess...
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