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BREAKING! Air Asia lost contact with Flight QZ8501 over Indonesia!! | |
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(OP) User ID: 58276109  Sweden12/27/2014 11:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Breaking News Feed ‏@PzFeed 22 sekunder sedan BREAKING NEWS - MISSING PLANE: Singapore Air Force and Navy activated with two C-130 planes to assist with search and rescue. "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." -Jean Paul Sartre "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason." -Ernest Hemingway "China is a sleeping giant, Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." -Napoleon Bonaparte "Streets of Leningrad taught me one thing - if fight is inevitable, throw the first punch." -Vladimir Putin World War 3 prediction: Summer 2020. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 28359302 United States12/27/2014 11:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Look at the FlightRadar24 track before contact was lost. There were some significant airspeed and altitude fluctuations right at the end. This indicates some very bad weather and wind sheer turbulence: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28359302 [link to www.flightradar24.com] Significant? I saw slight changes , nowhere near "significant" on the links playback There are airspeed fluctuations of around plus/minus 10 kts. That is significant airspeed fluctuation at that altitude, and you can see the resulting altitude fluctuations. Plus/minus ten kts airspeed fluctuation due to vertical wind sheer can be severe. Not enough to break an aircraft under normal circumstances, but considering AirAsia is a cut rate airline, who knows about maintenance. This aircraft was not particularly old - about 6.5 years of service. |
| Falter
(OP) User ID: 58276109 Sweden12/27/2014 11:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Mask ‏@genobkk 19 sekunder sedan There were several aircraft nearby the area where signal from #QZ8501 was lost [link to pbs.twimg.com (secure)] But I guess they didn't get affected by the weather,  "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." -Jean Paul Sartre "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason." -Ernest Hemingway "China is a sleeping giant, Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." -Napoleon Bonaparte "Streets of Leningrad taught me one thing - if fight is inevitable, throw the first punch." -Vladimir Putin World War 3 prediction: Summer 2020. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 15557140 United States12/27/2014 11:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Singapore-bound AirAsia plane with 162 on board missing [link to www.foxnews.com] |
| SkinnyChic
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| Falter
(OP) User ID: 58276109 Sweden12/27/2014 11:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Breaking News Feed ‏@PzFeed 25 sför 26 sekunder sedan BREAKING NEWS - MISSING PLANE: AirAsia #QZ8501 was flying at 32,000 feet before losing contact. "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." -Jean Paul Sartre "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason." -Ernest Hemingway "China is a sleeping giant, Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." -Napoleon Bonaparte "Streets of Leningrad taught me one thing - if fight is inevitable, throw the first punch." -Vladimir Putin World War 3 prediction: Summer 2020. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 59948382 United States12/27/2014 11:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The weather was not good - it was bad -- at the estimated location the plane lost contact. We just received a weather report from the national meteorological, geophysics and climatology agency," said Hadi. Mr Tatang Zainudin of Indonesia's national search and rescue agency also told MetroTV that the pilot might have faced extreme weather condition. The Straits Times understands that Singapore's RSAF will be dispatching a C130 to look for the missing plane. [link to www.straitstimes.com] |
| Hope_Full
User ID: 53504650 United States12/27/2014 11:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The max range of an Airbus A-320 is about 6 hours of flight time with a full load of pax and full fuel.Or about 2700 nautical miles. Quoting: Dervish That area has NASTY weather. I have flown through that area many times and some storms grow incredibly fast. It also has volcanic activity. A 747 lost all four engines going through a cloud of volcanic ash years ago. Do not know if any ash advisories were issued. Yes, but typically, the jet engines will die when they hit the ash clouds, and then can be restarted when they descend into cleaner air. I am not believing this is weather related. The Airbus 320 is a big strong stable and reliable aircraft. |
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| GodzillaReturns
Apex Predator User ID: 61674561 United States12/27/2014 11:38 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Breaking News Feed ‏@PzFeed 25 sför 26 sekunder sedan Quoting: Falter BREAKING NEWS - MISSING PLANE: AirAsia #QZ8501 was flying at 32,000 feet before losing contact. That altitude it must've broken up why is anyone's guess For the ACs..there is NOTHING that you can do to me on this platform..you can throw all the insults you want won’t do a thing because IDGAF If you give me red don’t be a pussy and put your name on it. Have the balls to stand by what you say |
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| Falter
(OP) User ID: 58276109 Sweden12/27/2014 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anyone else seeing discrepancies on how many poor people were on board. They have the roster...so why are we getting different numbers reported? Quoting: SkinnyChic Some news sites are probably going for the number of people that the plane is made to carry. I see numbers between 150-168. "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." -Jean Paul Sartre "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason." -Ernest Hemingway "China is a sleeping giant, Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." -Napoleon Bonaparte "Streets of Leningrad taught me one thing - if fight is inevitable, throw the first punch." -Vladimir Putin World War 3 prediction: Summer 2020. |
| superfluous moon User ID: 66160891  Australia12/27/2014 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | only thing regarding discrepancies in people on board would be some places might report passengers only and not crew. but that would be inhumane to just not mention crew as though they are not human. so we are back to square one. what's with discrepancies in people on board? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11708300 United States12/27/2014 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The max range of an Airbus A-320 is about 6 hours of flight time with a full load of pax and full fuel.Or about 2700 nautical miles. Quoting: Dervish That area has NASTY weather. I have flown through that area many times and some storms grow incredibly fast. It also has volcanic activity. A 747 lost all four engines going through a cloud of volcanic ash years ago. Do not know if any ash advisories were issued. Finally, and I expect to get flamed for this but the statistics will prove it, the quality of pilots varies wildly by country. In any airline overseas the capability of crew members is very uneven. As well as maintenance personel. It may be a hijacking,a terrorist event,bad weather,sabotage, volcanic ash,bad pilotage or a combination of them all. what I don't get is, why the company's CEO just so happens sold one million share of his insurance company only 2 days ago, isn't he the genius to have seen this coming ... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 28359302 United States12/27/2014 11:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The max range of an Airbus A-320 is about 6 hours of flight time with a full load of pax and full fuel.Or about 2700 nautical miles. Quoting: Dervish That area has NASTY weather. I have flown through that area many times and some storms grow incredibly fast. It also has volcanic activity. A 747 lost all four engines going through a cloud of volcanic ash years ago. Do not know if any ash advisories were issued. Yes, but typically, the jet engines will die when they hit the ash clouds, and then can be restarted when they descend into cleaner air. I am not believing this is weather related. The Airbus 320 is a big strong stable and reliable aircraft. 10 crashes of A320 with fatalities, some due to weather. This will be the 11th one: [link to www.airsafe.com] |
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