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12/27/2014

Aviation News Bullitin Alert

Jetliner goes Missing after "Unusual Route"

Indonesian officials said air traffic controllers lost contact with an AirAsia flight from Indonesia to Singapore, Reuters reported late Saturday 12/27/2014

Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa told Indonesian media air traffic controllers in Jakarta last heard from Flight QZ 8501, enroute from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, at 6:17 a.m. local time.

Mustofa said the pilots had asked for ""an unusual route"" before it lost contact, according to Reuters.

Full Story : CBS NEWS : http://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-traffic-controllers-lose-contact-with-airasia-plane/

..news coming in, bit by bit...>>>

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/mi ... now_so_far

Looks like they were experiencing bad weather?

Paul.

The purposeful negilence of reporters just never ceases to amaze me!
An "an unusual route"?! The pilot merely requested a slight deviation from his orginal flight plan due to some bad weather...If he didn't, I would have been suspicious. Now the media is digging for answers in all the wrong places. I pray I never experience such an incident while flying, because I know the media will make every effort to rip me apart. Many other airliners were in flying a similar flight path in the area (at a higher flight level.., granted). Only once we recover the wreckage will we be able to determine what brought down the plane.
May God be with all the families of the passengers.




Ahh yes, finally! Someone consulted the experts.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30615116

The cause could be very similar to the Air France 447 that crashed off Rio. We will have to wait and see!

Deep condolences!

heloflight wrote:The cause could be very similar to the Air France 447 that crashed off Rio. We will have to wait and see!

Deep condolences!

Agreed, circumstances appear the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

Dave

I concur. The only thing I don't understand is how it could possibly disappear from radar, and off the other numerous tracking devices. We'll see... MH370 did it once.

By this there are were more information regarding the fate of the 8501. I've gone through a couple of severe turbulences during flight across the Pacific but mostly on B747s. I've seen how they built jetliners during a tour at the Boeing plants in Seattle and I'm convinced of the mechanical integrity of these aircraft and I am assuming that the Air Bus Industry is similarly competent in building their jets. My question concerns the professional integrity of the pilots. Are commercial jet pilots trained on what to expect and react to severe weather conditions. In the case of the 8501 at what altitude was it on when it decided to increase altitude? I'm not a pilot nor I claim to be an aviation expert but isn't a fact the aircraft loses more lift and would need more power to maintain altitude? Also what was the temperature like outside the aircraft. Was it possible that icing could've occurred and caused the aircraft to stall? When an aircraft stalls at 37K feet is there any way to point the nose down, gain much needed lift and stabilize flight before crashing? As a novice I have a suspicion that the aircraft did not break up in flight but that for some reason it stalled and the pilots were never able to recover from it. My condolences to the victims of course and hopefully the aviation industry learns something constructive from this tragedy.