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| Southeast Asia |
| AirAsia plane with 162 aboard disappears between Singapore and Malaysia |
| 2014-12-28 |
| Moved to Page 3 ... and back to Page 1. Once is an accident, twice is coincidence. You know the rest. My analytical radar is pinging like crazy. Indonesia and Singapore have launched a search-and-rescue operation after an AirAsia flight disappeared over the Java Sea with 162 people on board early Sunday. Flight 8501 was scheduled to make a relatively short early-morning flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore but lost contact with Jakarta air traffic control at 6:24 a.m. local time (6:24 p.m. Eastern Time Saturday), approximately an hour before it was due to land. Eleven minutes earlier, according to Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia's acting director general of transportation, the pilot had "asked to hinder cloud by turning left and go higher to 34,000 feet." Murjatmodjo said that there was no distress signal from the plane. AirAsia Indonesia had earlier confirmed that the pilot had asked to change course due to bad weather in the area. |
| Posted by:Mike Kozlowski |
| #7 MA 370 was a Boeing operated by Malasia Air. Subsequent investigation of the pilot indicates his wife and three kids had moved out of his house the day before the flight. He should not have been allowed to fly. AA 8501 was an airbus operated by Indonesian Air. No info yet on the pilot and co pilot. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-12-28 16:19 |
| #6 I just remember when the (financially well endowed) people with prepaid tickets who panicked when the prototype space craft crashed a couple weeks back and were concerned about the safety of an afternoon outing. No prototype here. Yet passengers get on board playing the odds sh!t won't happen. There is no perfect. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-12-28 11:05 |
| #5 Seriously, I'm sorry for the people who have lost their lives in this obvious airliner crash, and hope their families can find solace in the idea that their deaths were relatively quick. Otherwise, the airplane is nothing more than |
| Posted by: Alistaire Elmailing8877 2014-12-28 10:23 |
| #4 We should have active radar on that bird or am I mis-estimating the radar coverage of a LCC? Depends on whether air radar was required. Most time what would be pinged would be the aircraft's IFF code. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-12-28 10:17 |
| #3 Malaysian airline. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-12-28 08:22 |
| #2 LCC? Blue Ridge has a tprecycled SPS 48E, good in theory to 250 miles. In a screaming thunderstorm storm who knows. It might not have even been radiating if there were escorts. Where did you read an LCC was close by? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-12-28 08:13 |
| #1 I believe there was a USN vessel within 100 miles of it when contact was lost. We should have active radar on that bird or am I mis-estimating the radar coverage of a LCC? |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2014-12-28 04:56 |