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 ...
Judge Jeannine’s on, she has a very good show tonight, JJ has great shows usually.... go for the mega-coverage of CNN if it pleases someone.
As you can see from this portion of the Wikipedia entry on AF447, the A320 (the one that just disappeared) also has a history of pitot-related issues, dating to 2007 at Air France.
So have the A320's in the Air Asia fleet been modified with the recommended Airbus modifications? Was there an airworthiness directive, or similar directive to replace the defective systems, and if so, did Air Asia comply with it? So far it looks like QZ8501 was flying in similar circumstances to AF447; that is to say at cruise near thunderstorms.
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Pitot tubes
After May 2008, nine previous incidents involving the temporary loss of airspeed indication appeared in the Air Safety Reports (ASRs) for Air France's A330/A340 fleet. All occurred in cruise between flight levels FL310 and FL380. The first problem was reported on May 2008 and the latter two on March 2009, one of them the first event on an A330. Further, after F-GZCP accident, Air France has identified six additional incidents which had not been reported on ASRs. These were intended for maintenance Aircraft Technical Logs (ATLs) drawn up by the pilots to describe these incidents only partially, to indicate the characteristic symptoms of the incidents associated with unreliable airspeed readings.[163][164] The problems primarily occurred in 2007 on the A320 but, awaiting a recommendation from Airbus, Air France delayed installing new pitot tubes on A330/A340 and increased inspection frequencies in these planes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
ROFL Yep here we go again. Can anyone guess what will be the topic for several months 24/7 on CNN?
Some people get ill even on calm flights. I have flown dozens of times with no ill effect. The average odds are extremely good for safety. But when a plane does go down it does so with great drama.
Adrian, is that you?
I don’t think it’s anything suspicious. That weather system appears to have been a fast-moving one and they may not have known how bad it would be. Maybe thought they’d be able to miss it.
I am not sure about that “Babylon” but that is how the translator is rendering the name.
and no reports of cell phone calls
LOL...HOWEVER if I need to go outside of the USA and it’s not on land, I will need a ship. Maybe a cargo ship, but a ship nonetheless...lol
True, that map is showing, like, nothing now.
Fox has “Huckabee”
We need Col McInerney on this.
Oh that is important. (s)
It isn’t airsickness that keeps me off planes. It’s sheer terror at the thought of being that high off the ground. I’m the first to admit I’m a total wuss about it. LOL!
Anyone who says ‘not necessarily’ is pegged immediately as a liar for me, no matter what the topic or context. That’s a phrase deceivers use.
That seems odd to me, since most would be texting right after take off...just to say, I’m in the air ya da ya da...this is not good.
Like a whole spate of fast moving storms. Now gone.
I’m sure I must be missing a joke somewhere because I don’t know who Adrian is. I just know it’s not me.
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