Retrieving wreckage from AirAsia Flight To Singapore- no survivors recovered

[fireflies]

“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,” he said.

http://time.com/3647835/airasia-qz-8501-162-missing-surabaya-singapore/

 

[SouthAussie]

Ch24 TV News (Australia) is saying 6 crew members and 155 passengers

 

[bexlex]

Oh my...please no

 

[ElleElle]

Yikes, those look like some severe storms. JMO, but the storms will play into this.

Yes, look at Air France 447.

 

[emirates1957]

I'm sorry to be naive here, but don't planes fly high above thunderstorms? I understand at take off and landing it's an issue but this was in between either and should have been at a way higher altitude. Or that is my understanding. Feel free to school me. tks

Yep planes fly through bad weather all of the time. Three ways that lead to disaster can be night flying, terrain and weather. The Captain would definitely know what weather is ahead and would change his flight plan to avoid severe weather conditions. They would also build in an alternate should conditions change quickly i.e. low visibility.

As for MH17/MH370 - it is just my opinion I do not believe that MH 17 was an accident. I used to work for Malaysian Airlines in he 1980's we were shown wreckage of MH653 which had been taken down by the JRA around the late 70's.

 

[panthera]

Richard Quest is on CNN

Watching CNN now. Will continue to watch from bed.....

Just sad for all those passengers and crew.

 

[trigger]

It should been reported the ATC lost contact with the aircraft not the other way around imo.

 

[emirates1957]

I thought they flew above the storms too.

I guess it would depend on the height of the storm, what traffic was in the area and the aircrafts limitations. You never want to fly through the red stuff as shown up thread. Those sort of red areas have the capacity to rip wings off.

 

[SouthAussie]

Sounds as though something now known happened .....

Airbus @Airbus · 28m 28 minutes ago
We have been informed of an event and all efforts are now going towards assessing the situation.


(The CEO of AirAsia)
Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes · 11m 11 minutes ago
We will be putting out another statement soon. Thank you for all your thoughts and prays.we must stay strong.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-28/air-asia-flight-loses-contact-with-air-traffic-control/5990424

 

[concernedmother]

Why are they just reporting it if its been missing already 5 1/2 hours ?

 

[fireflies]

#QZ8501 may have flown out of Flightradar24 coverage at 23:12 UTC as we are missing coverage on lower altitudes in this area.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-28/air-asia-flight-loses-contact-with-air-traffic-control/5990424

Thanks for the heads up about CNN live coverage, watching now in anticipation of the press conference.

Ugh, did I just hear on CNN that its possible the investigation could possibly end up being Malaysia's responsibility if it ventured into their air space? Deja vu..

 

[SouthAussie]

Indonesian presser right now ... will let you know as soon as we have a translator :sigh: (well, I guess it is Sunday)

- Ch24 TV News

 

[liljim]

looks like its down...

 

[fireflies]

Indonesian media said 149 Indonesians, three people from Korea, and one each from Singapore, Britain and Malaysia were on board.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/28/us-indonesia-airplane-idUSKBN0K601C20141228

 

[trigger]

The weather has been extremely bad. Malaysian Prime Minister race back to his Country because 160,000 of his people were evacuated because of severe storms.

 

[fireflies]

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/116...-indonesia-unclear-if-airasia-flight-qz-8501/

Crash site reported..

An aircraft has reportedly crashed in the waters off East Belitung, off the east coast of Sumatra, after authorities confirmed that AirAsia Flight QZ8501 went missing earlier today.

 

[concernedmother]

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/116...-indonesia-unclear-if-airasia-flight-qz-8501/

Crash site reported..

Unclear if its this plane? Well are any other planes missing? They have horrible reporting.

 

[SouthAussie]

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/116...-indonesia-unclear-if-airasia-flight-qz-8501/

Crash site reported..

Sounds like it, doesn't it? .... by the location and all. Probably informing relatives of the likelihood first.

 

[KEVINinTO]

Chinese TV reporting wreckage found. No confirmation from Air Asia

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#BREAKING Airplane wreckage reportedly found east of #BelitungIsland,in Indonesia. No confirmation from #AirAsia yet.

 

[emirates1957]

I agree SA - my guess is that they would have a lot more knowledge than what is being reported. Dear god I hope this is not an act of terrorism.