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2014-12-28 Southeast Asia

AirAsia plane with 162 aboard disappears between Singapore and Malaysia

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Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-12-28 00:12|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#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|| 2014-12-28 04:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-12-28 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Malaysian airline.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-28 08:22|| 2014-12-28 08:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-12-28 10:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-12-28 10:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-12-28 11:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-12-28 16:19|| Front Page Top

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