Posted on 12/30/2014 12:29:43 AM PST by tcrlaf
Indonesian rescue teams said Tuesday that they had found bodies and what appeared to be debris from the AirAsia plane that vanished shortly after taking off from the airport here on Sunday.
Members of search teams told the Indonesian news media that they had spotted what appeared to be suitcases, life vests and aircraft debris. Indonesian television showed a rescuer descending from a helicopter toward a bloated corpse floating in the sea.
The debris was found in the Karimata Strait off the coast of Borneo. Search teams also spotted what appeared to be a larger piece of the fuselage of the plane, which was operated by the Indonesian affiliate of AirAsia.
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I laughed my arse off.
/johnny
Oooooooooops!
I just noticed that the quote comes from CBS news, not ABC news.
Not like there is much of a difference anyways. But owing to the fact that I am pushing for media responsibility, I have to make my mistake clear.
CBS News still hasn’t declared Bush the winner in Ohio, 2004.
“Per CNN, Indonesian local TV is showing bodies in the water.”
Per NBC’s Today Show, the relatives of the crash victims saw the bodies on local TV before anyone notified them. Sad.
You are conflating this AD with the Air France icing issue. The Alpha Floor AD is not the same thing.
Yeah right. What makes you the expert to voice such nonsense?
Wrong again. An inflight breakup could be the result of an incorrect activation of Alpha Floor.
That happens a lot in that area. Families often read or see reports of a death before being notified.
It’s not a case of an unsafe plane. It’s a case of a flight crew flying into some of the most intense thunderstorms in the world and not knowing how to deal with the violent winds inside these thunderstorms.
Moral of the story: don’t book a flight on any one of the Asian Airlines. For whatever reason, they are snakebit.
One does NOT knowingly fly into a thunderstorm period. If you do you will at the very least regret it, and bend something and at the worst you have this thread or one like it.
AOA probes are not used during routine flight. They are for used for approaches. We used them for aerobatics and in trainers for spin recovery. Neither of which are done during civilian flights. The most probable cause is turbulence caused by the storm they flew into.
I had read that ATC had denied a request to divert but it is still the PICs responsibility to ensure the safety of their a/c, crew and passengers.
Back when I was flying with the USMC, a job notice circulated around the squadron. A Midwestern university was seeking "qualified T-28 pilots to fly a T-28 for thunderstorm penetration research". This generated a lot of cynical laughs.
Any "qualified T-28 pilot" knew that the envelope of the T-28 had been reduced from 6g to 4.5g due to the age of the airframes. 4.5g is not a lot, yet in this case, there was the danger of ripping the wings off.
Any qualified pilot also called large thunderstorms "Gators" because they can 'chew you up and spit you out'.
Finally, most of us had read the account of Lt Colonel William Rankin, USMC.
The Man Who Rode the Thunder (Hardcover) – June, 1960 by William H. Rankin .
Let the conspiracy theories begin/continue....
If I was the sort of person who is offended by offensive jokes then I would be offended.
But I’m not, so I’m not.
That’s pretty funny.
Hadn’t heard of this. Thanks for posting.
BN- Thank You for Your Service and the info.
WOW! AND YIKES + several other words I best not use here!!!
That is AMAZING LT. Col. Rankin survived all that. Never heard/seen that story before.
LOAD YER DIAPER PING!
RE: Airbus is heavy into Java. Imagine using Java to control airplanes.
OK, what should they have used instead? ADA?
OK, what should they have used instead? ADA?
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Fortran?
COBOL?
RPGII?
Assembler?
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