Gerry Soejatman @GerryS Leaked photo of ATCscreen on #QZ8501, it ended up at 36300ft and climbing but ground speed only 353 knots! Uh oh!
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 ...
You sound perfectly sane to me. LOL!!
When I was a kid, my godfather had an air charter service and would take us flying in his planes on weekends. I loved it.
Then for no reason that I’ve ever been able to come up with, I suddenly became terrified about flying around the age of 20.
So on the ground I stay on the rare occasions I get to go somewhere. That’s ok. A lot of beautiful scenery to admire along the way.
In this case it looks not like the flight was “turbulenced” out of the sky but they actually tried to land.
Yes I guess so. I wonder how long they knew they were in trouble.
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Another weird sounding technology we use all the time is the pneumatic tire. Nobody would have thought mere rubber enough to carry the weight of heavy vehicles, that is, until good vulcanization was developed.
Ah, I remember that show but didn’t watch it very often. Working nights back in those days, I didn’t get to watch many of the evening shows.
Nope, not Adrian but we must be related. :-)
Air Asia confirmed that the pilots requested deviation due to weather.
“I don’t worry about any of that, because the bloke at the front is in the aircraft with you and wants to get home safely.
You want to worry about something, worry about the happiness levels of the maintenance mechanics, and where they got their replacement parts.”
Yes, that is the key isn’t it, I seem to recall a documentary about a British Airways flight where the cockpit window popped out of place and the pilot was sucked out, remarkably he was able to hold on to the plane (or his belt caught him) and although unconscious and half frozen he survived after his copilot successfully landed the plane.
The air transport investigation reported that the wrong screw was used to hold the window in place, apparently the evening before it had been replaced and the screw went missing and the maintenance guy rifled through a box of screws and nuts till he found one that might just do the job and stuck it in before going off no doubt for a well deserved cup of tea.
It ain’t just third world airlines one has to worry about.
Thanks ! !!! I DO appreciate being corrected.
Sadly, though I wish it was true since then the poor devils might have had a chance vis-a-vis a vertical plunge.
https://www.facebook.com/AirAsia
AirAsia
23 mins ·
[Updated statement] QZ8501
AirAsia Indonesia regrets to confirm that flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control at 07:24 (Surabaya LT) this morning. The flight took off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya at 0535hours.
The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC. There were two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer on board.
The captain in command had a total of 6,100 flying hours and the first officer a total of 2,275 flying hours
There were 155 passengers on board, with 138 adults, 16 children and 1 infant. Also on board were 2 pilots and 5 cabin crew.
Nationalities of passengers and crew onboard are as below:
1 Singapore
1 Malaysia
1 France
3 South Korean
156 Indonesia
At this time, search and rescue operations are being conducted under the guidance of The Indonesia of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). AirAsia Indonesia is cooperating fully and assisting the investigation in every possible way.
The aircraft was on the submitted flight plan route and was requesting deviation due to enroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost while it was still under the control of the Indonesian Air Traffic Control (ATC).
The aircraft had undergone its last scheduled maintenance on 16 November 2014.
AirAsia has established an Emergency Call Centre that is available for family or friends of those who may have been on board the aircraft. The number is: +622129850801.
AirAsia will release further information as soon as it becomes available. Updated information will also be posted on the AirAsia website, www.airasia.com.
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http://asiancorrespondent.com/129391/flight-qz8501-live/
1.44pm: China’s @CCTVNews tweets unconfirmed report of plane wreckage found east of Belitung Island in Indonesia :
NDTV (India) http://www.ndtv.com/video/live/channel/ndtv24x7
Didn’t even use loctite on the silly thing, huh. Might have actually matched up the threads, but it would be under quite a physical and thermal load.
Ugh. Right after Christmas, too. Could be whole families on that plane. Imagine this happening while you have your baby with you.
In which case, trying to land might not have been the plan... it just happens they were downed in that spot.
I understand the pilot had radio’d he was going to get above the storms...planes do do that.
CNN has map and discussing storms and showing storms.
It would depend on how close together any two planes were flying. There were thunderstorms and I’m still leaning towards the plane being hit by lightning. Could have messed up some of the electronics and the pilot could only do so much after that. Nature does freaky stuff like that. And it would affect one plane and not another that was in the same general area.
All we can do is wait until they find the crash and study everything. And it sounds like they may have found the crash site.
Well I take it back, the last altitude was way up there. Doesn’t sound like trying to land, but rather the plunge whatever the reason was coincidentally near an island airport. Being close to land like that will make it easier to recover wreckage. But a smack like that would have killed everybody.
Gerry Soejatman @GerryS Leaked photo of ATCscreen on #QZ8501, it ended up at 36300ft and climbing but ground speed only 353 knots! Uh oh!
Airbus is complete fly by wire, so a fried craft would have nothing to do but crash. No way to physically wrestle it down.
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