Suspicious objects sighted 160 km SW of Pangkalan Bun .. the red dot on this map ... but they are about 1120 kilometres from the location where the plane lost contact, a long way away. The plane would not have gone straight down, surely, if this is wreckage - even if it has been tossed around by wild seas.
As per SBS (reliable Aust. govt-funded media).
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/12/29/australian-plane-spots-objects-sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lBUf4HbIa8
GO to 19:20 for the start of the reneacment of what went on inside TWA 800 as she fell apart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbny8XnAifY
I was just talking to one of our Pilot's. No blame should be credited to ATC - apparently trying to climb out of a thunderstorm is almost impossible. He also mentioned that - skirting around the storm may have been an option. Also this aircraft was full of fuel which would enable them to return to their origin. Now they would have been heavy with fuel and their maximum landing weight would be exceeded which would mean that they could always dump fuel. This Pilot was saying he was in a similar situation one night flying over bass strait they made the decision to return. Pilot's will always carry enough fuel for contingencies and always have an alternate on their flight plan. A lot of our Pilot's said he shouldn't have been in that situation, whereby within in a minute or so after being told he can ascend to losing contact with ATC. Pilot's should be always thinking ahead. MH370 is always bantered around the old crew room. Majority of crew would have thought if it had landed in one piece then sunk to the lowest part of the indian ocean the fuesalage would have imploded immediately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lBUf4HbIa8
GO to 19:20 for the start of the reneacment of what went on inside TWA 800 as she fell apart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbny8XnAifY
However, if what we have heard is correct he started climbing ANYWAY.
We have been told he was at 32K.
However the last radar allegedly shows him at 36K.
If that information is correct... he was in such a bad situation that he climbed despite the danger of other aircraft. :twocents:
Officials confirmed that smoke has been spotted on an island in the search area. No more details yet, its being investigated.
Satellite imagery of the area where AirAsia flight QZ 8501 went missing has been released by Tomnod, the online crowdsourcing arm of satellite service DigitalGlobe, and already users are reporting suspected debris sightings.
Officials confirmed that smoke has been spotted on an island in the search area. No more details yet, its being investigated.
That would be absolutely amazing! I hope this isn't a rumor.CNN now reporting this as well. If in fact this is the missing aircraft it should not take very long to get confirmation. Given the options this would probably be the best outcome and offer the possibility that there could be survivors.
Further info from CNN: Smoke is on "long island" south of Belitung Island
Thanks for the info from the pilots. That makes the most sense to either go around if possible or just head back to the airport and wait for better weather.
The radar map from the CNN weather guys showed how quickly the larger storm that seemed to be behind the plane grew into a gigantic storm and then quickly subsided and fell apart almost as quick as it formed. There was a smaller storm right in front of the plane and it looked nasty too.
Its amazing how fast storms can grow and then fall apart. I suppose that was one of the pilot's issues is that the storm probably formed on him very fast.
Most people have never been in very severe turbulance of the kind the pilot was probably trying to avoid. I have read some pretty scary stories of people that were not buckled in flew up and hit their heads on the ceiling. That is probably the type of severity of the turbulance the pilot was dealing with and trying to avoid.