Posted on 01/14/2015 12:51:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Following the recovery of the two “black boxes” aboard the crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501, a story on Yahoo! News reports that “Allahuakhbar, Allahuakhbar were the last words [the pilots] said before they died.”
AirAsia Flight QZ8501, a flight out of Surabaya, Indonesia and bound for Singapore, took off early Sunday December 28, 2014 in what can only be described as violent weather. The pilots, amidst the storm, radioed in, asking air traffic control for permission to turn left and climb to a higher altitude to avert the storm. A little while later, the plane crashed into the Java Sea, taking the lives of all 162 of its crew and passengers on board.
Search teams began looking for traces of the aircraft upon discovering that it was missing, only to find debris and several bodies floating 60 to 120 miles from the aircraft’s last known location over the Java Sea. Of the 162 people on board, only 48 bodies have been recovered so far.
Soon after, the international search efforts continued, and according to Fox News, “three Indonesian ships detected two strong pings being emitted from their beacons, about 22 yards apart.” The strong currents and large waves hindered divers' efforts throughout the 17-day search, “but they took advantage of calmer early morning conditions on both days to extract the instruments.”
Nurcahyo Utomo, a two decade old investigator who knew the pilot personally, had this to say about the recordings that were recovered from the wreckage:
“Listening to the playback of a black box involved in a crash is not like listening to music or a discussion.
“We are listening to a recording that represents the last moments before the crash and it is disturbing. There are times where the investigators would get unnerved listening to the recording.”
In analyzing the recordings and listening to the last words of the pilots, words like “Allahuakhbar” being repeatedly stated, the investigators got goose bumps.
“It is as if we can feel them... Allahuakhbar, Allahuakhbar were the last words said before they died,” said Nucahyo.
As of this moment, it is unclear what the pilots intended when uttering a phrase often associated with radical Islamic terrorists, many of whom have uttered the phrase before committing their heinous acts of terror: “Allahuakhbar, Allahuakhbar.”
Perhaps, in repeating “Allahuakhbar,” a phrase that literally means “god is the greatest,” the pilots were merely calling out to their god in a time of great peril – a moment that they believed would be their last.
One thing is for sure, hearing these final words, this last conversation, is key to revealing what caused the AirAsia flight to crash.
"We will know what really happened from the conversations between pilot and co-pilot prior to the crash,” said Nucahyo.
And certainly, listening to and analyzing the recordings of the last moments of Flight QZ8501 will be a tough thing to do for Captain Iriyanto, a junior to the pilot who died on board the downed plane.
Whoever listened to that black box recording is obviously racist.
Oy, not this misinformation again
Now isn’t that interesting?
This is not true. The recorder on that flight has not even been read yet.
This was a general statement about air crashes by Indonesian investigators, referring to the passengers or crew or whoever was being recorded - and it probably wasn’t meant as a war cry, but simply what these people said when they knew they were about to die.
Let’s not manipulate things to make them look even worse than they are...and they’re already extremely bad.
“We will know what really happened from the conversations between pilot and co-pilot prior to the crash,” said Nucahyo.
As much as would like to blame Muslims and communists for all the world’s ills, they probably were just calling out to the god they were raised in and not committing SJS (sudden jihad syndrome).
That said, I would prefer not to have a Muslim pilot. It just seems prudent.
Allahu Akbar
I thought that was Arabic for “nothing to see here.”
Isn’t that the Amish war cry?
>>[Allahu akbar] ... probably wasn’t meant as a war cry, but simply what these people said when they knew they were about to die.
Yeah, just like the Egypt Air numb nuts who took one into the drink after departure from JFK...
Have they listened to it yet or not?
It could be the equivalent of a Catholic saying the Act of Contrition when faced with imminent death.
Or not.
That was different. For one thing, the copilot and the pilot were fighting in the cabin because the co-pilot wanted to crash the plane.
This investigator was talking about what people say when they know they’re about to die. Muslims are misguided, but that’s all they know how to say.
More counter-productive, fake news from CNS? Never read it. Reminds me too much of Glenn Beck.
I thought it meant you got the ugly goat followed by laughter
Allah is of the devil.
No, they haven’t listened to it. Or maybe they have, but the information hasn’t been posted yet.
I despise Islam, but this is a hysteria article.
Allahu Akbar
I thought that was Arabic for...
“At this point what difference does it make?”
In spite of my being permanently and resolutely anti-sandmaggot-koranimals, I think this alternative explanation is perfectly reasonable, and much more likely.
Of course the koranimal terrorists would like to claim "credit" for another outrageous mass murder, but I refuse to let them have it, if such is the case.
If this was in fact a terrorist attack, why wait till they are over the ocean? Seems like they would try create as much terror as possible and make sure they were over a land area.
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