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 ...
Most storm related flight cancellation problems have to do with weather at airports, not weather in between.
That just strengthens my suspicion that lightning may have been the culprit. Hit in the right place and that’s all she wrote. They do all they can when they build planes to keep that from happening but they can only do so much.
“This is the MAJOR downfall for FoxNews.”
Are you serious? Do you think the base cares what happens in indofreakinasia? Besides after 11pm who watches TV?
The higher altitudes put them closer to both their stall speed and overspeed mach number, a.k.a. puts them into a "coffin corner".
Smaller airpeed margin, less room for error in turbulence.
Sad...a lot of people lost.
CNN weather guy was showing map and stating the turbulence and storm went upwards of 53,000 ft, so no way to avoid it.
What, you don't think God can find you on the ground?
Oh so it has to do if the plane can actually land at that particular airport, and if its not safe then they will just cancel the flight..I understand now thanks
Yes, we do hear about cancelled flights due to weather here often. I think it’s just one of those freaks of nature that brought this plane down and not any others in the area.
The Sunday Shelf was all above sea level during the last Ice Age and the Java Sea averages 150 feet deep so this should bode well for the recovery effort.
News5 AKSYON @News5AKSYON 1m1 minute ago
#QZ8501| ‘No possibility for missing flight to continue flying. Only had fuel for 4.5hrs’ - Indonesian officials
Kerosene isn't explosive, but it will burn.
Oooooh, He can find me when he’s ready. But when He does, at least I’ll be where I was built to be. :-)
That doesn't mean the entire sky is covered in thunderstorms up to 53,000 feet. They could be isolated, or embedded, or in a nearly solid line. At any rate radar can paint these storms very effectively, so they can be avoided (with a competent operator).
The weather is reported by air traffic control as "tops up to 53,000 feet"; "isolated area of thunderstorms with tops up to 53,000 feet", etc.
But for sure, if one has tops that high, it has severe turbulence within it.
Good point, it took almost 2 years to recover AF447, mostly because of the deep crash site.
AirAsia flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore is believed to have crashed at the location 03.22.46 South and 108.50.07 East, in waters around 145 kilometers from Belitung, a National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) official has said.
Basarnas Pangkalpinang spokesperson Supriandi said, as reported by Antara news agency on Sunday, that it had dispatched a rescue team to Belitung.
It is believed that the Airbus A320 had circled over the sea near Belitung to avoid a storm before it experienced severe turbulence and crashed into the ocean.
- See more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/12/28/airasia-plane-downed-belitung-waters-reports.html#sthash.oYnYWMZh.dpuf
I think he said ‘tops up to 53,000 ft’, and that would explain the turbulence they were dealing with, and of course they couldn’t go that high....so they must have tried to fly through the storm right?
Now he is correcting himself at 52,000 ft.
I like that they’re still calling it a search and rescue effort. That means they haven’t given up hope of finding survivors at this point.
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