#Breaking: #QZ8501 may have attempted Tanjung 6k runway, crash reported E of Island. 100nm is rough glide distance.
750 feet and 158 knots-———sounds like an attempt to ditch possibly. If free falling I would think a higher speed.
With summertime in the tropics weather damage is certainly possible. We can hope they did not have carbon fiber vertical stabilizer attachments that failed.
But why not any emergency radio messages?
Airbus A320-216. Construction #3648. Delivered October 16, 2008.
So it is not an old worn out clunker.
#Breaking: #QZ8501 may have attempted Tanjung 6k runway, crash reported E of Island. 100nm is rough glide distance.
“750 feet and 158 knots-———sounds like an attempt to ditch poss...”
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Those readings were from the BEGINNING of the flight. The last readings showed the plane at 32,000 ft.