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 ...
Indonesian operated/piloted?
CNN just showed radar for that area and it’s chock full of storms. BIG red masses on the radar.
It would explain the request for a route change, hoping to miss the storms. It sounds like they weren’t able to, unfortunately.
Would a goodly whack of lightning knock the whole plane out?
And that presumably was the weather then, not now (now it is calm)
Good to know. Without any information about the weather, hijacking was my first guess.
What goes up must come down.. in the center of a mesoscale convective complex (big storm) when the hot air shoots up above the cloud thru the center and freezes, it gains denser mass and falls at terminal velocity. The JAWS project in the US put an end to flying into microbursts, but who knows who’s at the switch in Indonesia.
Ah, I didn’t see this post before I posted a minute ago.
That’s what I saw on the radar on tv a couple of minutes ago. Nasty weather.
#Breaking An aircraft crashed east of #BelitungIsland, Indonesia, but not confirmed to be the missing #QZ8501, local media reports.#AirAsia
I was going to also ask what leg lights were...
A good enough whack of lightning could do it if it struck the right spot, I’d think. I do NOT fly for ANY reason and really don’t know much about aircraft. But as good as they build things - anything - there’s always some way nature can wreak havoc on them.
I have a sinking feeling that’s the case here.
A plane reportedly crashed in the Pacific ocean waters of the East, the Pacific Islands, Sunday (28/12). It is not yet certain point the crash site.
[starting to type it into Google Translate, which identifies it as Indonesian]
Sounds like this same plane, but they are deducing it crashed rather than having reported an identified crash location.
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OK, thanks. Here’s a link for anyone interested in doing that:
http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/pk-axc/#5240449
That's what I see when I play back the FlightRadar24 feed (not 750 feet!).
If this other report of the pilot requesting a climb on his last transmission is true, then that's also consistent with weather avoidance. An A320 loaded with only passengers and their luggage is operating at a fairly light weight, and is likely capable of climbing up to 36,000 feet, at least, if they needed to do it. That would be consistent with attempting to clear the tops of the cells, to stay out of turbulence, and to stay visual with the active cells to avoid them.
Another ‘cruise missile’ for ISISs stockpile
That’s a big deal if so... may be what happened.
It’s calm now? Dang, but that system moved fast!
I guess the good thing is the weather won’t hamper operations to try to find the plane. It still sucks they have to do it in the first place. :-(
What are pushed up women? Women with push up bras? Not sure if that’s what you mean but on average the women on Fox are medium to flat.
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